I just got home from watching Clifford the Big Red Dog. He did a pretty good job as Mr. Bridwell.
Complaining about wokism and cancel culture is like three syllables off from “kids these days.”
Seems like John Cleese did very well.
Tell that to Kaaron Rodgers. I hear he’s pretty young.
How brave.
I can’t see how anyone would find that a sympathetic character with the exaggerated tones and blaming the Jews and Negros.
If one is a white supremacist or nazi, it would be easy to find him sympathetic. Millions of 1930s Germans did exactly that, from listening to those same kind of speeches.
I thought his audience were a bunch of university students, not white supremacists and nazis.
Okay, so this supports my point even further. Whether or not he thought his performance was in bad taste, to me, he was mimicking Hitler trying to defend his mediocre art by blaming the Jews and Negros for the modern art trends. Hitler’s defense of his bad taste in art was to prove that he had bad taste. It would be kind of awesomely meta if the professor was also including his own performance in bad taste to make a point.
You’re silly if you think there isn’t crossover between those groups.
I’m neither defending or attacking the man, but I wouldn’t have heard of him were it not for this. But, if I were of a white supremacist mindset, I might look up more.
Generally speaking, blacklisting people is a bad idea. A very bad idea and I’m glad Cleese made a humorous stand against it and succeeded.
Wow, Bradwell is a little sniveling worm. He says this is somehow him misspeaking:
“We will create a blacklist of speakers never to be invited back, and we will share it with other unions too. Andrew will be on that list.”
Seems like pretty detailed plan for some one who “misspoke”. He also says that he’ll still tell the next society president that Graham-Dixon shouldn’t be invited back. So, he’s still got a list, it just one he’s not writing down so you can see it and challenge it.
I still don’t see any reason to disagree with Cleese on this one. My support is becoming firmer, if anything.
We agree, see post 4
This is on a much lesser scale thankfully and looks like it has been stopped early, but having known (a little) someone who was blacklisted by McCarthy, Cleese did very good here.
Oh no, I don’t think we disagree. Sorry for making that seem like it might be the case. I was just really astounded at how he could say they wouldn’t have a list, but then basically started talking about how he’d have a list in the same walk back.
It is if you watch during working hours.
And depending on the source and context, specially coming from right-wing propagandists out there, it is clear to me that many right wingers do use now as a substitute for the “N**** Lovers” slur that back then attempted to discourage any moves from non bigoted groups or important individuals towards blacks and other minorities.
That’s the point of art. You can take offense with very little provocation. Or you can peel back the layers and think a little harder.
For instance, what should we think of him? Does it change the manner in which we think of “him” if we know that the man who last owned “him” was a Jewish art collector whose family suffered at “his” hands. What of the fact that he appears to have profited from its sale? Is that too in “bad taste”?
I thought it would be assumed that I meant his “target audience”. Are you saying that someone can’t mimic Hitler to a small audience in case there might be a random nazi in the group who will get wrong ideas?
If the nazis or white supremacists looked him up, they’d see a website about art. Welcome to AndrewGrahamDixon.com | Andrew Graham-Dixon
Naturally I didn’t say that. Not even imply it.
Okay then.
“We shall overcoooome! We shall overcoooome!”