So now Netflix has removed The Mighty Boosh and League of Gentlemen

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Should they be cancelled or is it going too far? They weren't like Little Britain, imho. Perhaps they were offensive. How far does it go though? Will there be anything left to watch pre 2020?

@Notejode, that article isn't accurate at all.

But you did @BobbieDraper, you said it wasn’t okay to mock black people because they have faced centuries of oppression whereas you seem to think Vicky Pollard hasn’t.

In fact despite having black African heritage I’ve grown up in a 99.9% white with a handful of Asians community and I am surrounded by Vicky Pollards. It’s a far more relatable character for me than the rich, pampered black woman who spends her life at the spa.

I’m utterly perplexed as to how this character offends people in the context of BLM. Is it because she’s a fat black woman? I don’t get it. Bubbles is fat too... so is Marjorie Dawes, is she offensive to fat people? Is Daffyd offensive to welsh gay (fat) men?

If one of the LB characters offends surely they all do. And if they all do then why didn’t they offend people in the early 2000s?

Is it because we were all yet to “educate ourselves” at that stage? Seems that millions of us were pretty thick as it was widely watched at the time.

Absolute patronising nonsense.

By the way I’m not especially a fan of Matt Lucas and I’ve heard horrendous stories about the real David Williams. But I will defend my right to have freedom to choose what I watch and freedom to laugh if I find something funny.

*Walliams

@africansassenach Am with you. For sanity may need to come off these threads though

All Chris Liley shows are racist, sexist, homophobic and every other ist Netflix are pulling his shows and not before time.

Women are fair game. For anything. Nothing is too offensive when it comes to the depiction of women.

Pretty much. There would be about 2 films available if that...

@TheMurk

I really dont want this to become who was more oppressed, women or black people or who has a larger power imbalance against them, women or black people.

As I said, it smacks of all lives matter, which is just inappropriate so il not going to go into it, and even if I did.

At the end of the day white "vikki pollards" still have their privilege.

So does this mean Drag Queens can be thrown on the Pyre at last?

@BobbieDraper if you really think Vicky pollards have “their privilege” where I live, then you’ve lived a sheltered life. I’d love to know what that privilege is. Because it’s all pretty grim for these women from where I’m sitting.

Are they going to ban porridge and only foold and horses next? Bloody ridiculous. Yes it's not politically correct and it's a sign of the times. A lot of those programmes are funny programmes you dont think too hard about (casual racism aside) and perfect to watch when you've had a shit day and need cheering up. Or will all TV shows pre 2000 be banned? I'm sure theres some kind of ism in all of them - even shows from the late 90s like 2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps, have casual sexism. Yet no one is demanding they're removed. Stupid and just removed from the blm matter argument. If all people have to worry about is a few tv shows I think that's a pretty nice life

@TheMurk
Do I need to explain white privilege to you now?

Jesus Christ. I'm out.

Will there be no more repeats of Rising Damp in that case?

Weren't we supposed to laugh at Rigsby for being an awful racist? I can't remember Rising Damp hugely well, I admit.

What about the film White chicks?

Personally I finding hilarious. But the 2 main characters are two black male police officers who dress up as 2 white females girls.

They actually act as rich spoilt white girls which is actually the characters are.

But surely it cannot be accepted either way if we are removing all programmes with similar theme?

Oh, FFS, why is it an issue?

A streaming platform has decided to remove some things you like. On the grounds that many, many other people don't like them. Those other people even find the offensive and upsetting.

You can still, you know, buy these things. You can still find them elsewhere. And you certainly have had the chance to watch them, many times, since they were first aired.

FFS, just grow up. Accept that other people have feelings and those feelings matter.

@BobbieDraper go on then.

You could maybe explain it to Lorraine who lives in the high flats opposite me and is as white as it’s possible to be.

She’s also about the sorriest soul you’d ever come across in so many ways, I can assure you there is no conscious or unconscious privilege in her life. She’s been disadvantaged since the day she was born.

Ask her to “check her privilege”.

It's corporate posturing, but Netflix, as a company, can do what it wants.

Myself, I'm not on the side of the censors.

Hey, here’s a novel idea that definitely hasn’t been brought up every couple of minutes across the various threads on this topic - what about that one film White Chicks?

[quote Pangur2]@themurk I bloody hope Mrs Brown’s Boys is cancelled, but because it is shite and an embarrassment to my country. 😉[/quote]
Given the brilliance of things like Father Ted and Derry Girls it always puzzles me as to why, just why it exists?

Re PL, we need to think about why painting a face black made it scary to you in the first place! Of course it's racist. Whatever you thought it was supposed to be.

Has anyone mentioned "White Chicks"?

Papa Lazarou is clearly a Mummer and that tradition is not based in race at all (it is about disguise) I would have thought it was also about Barbara Dixon (Bab’s cabs) because she was trans.

Robert Downey Jr was nominated for an Oscar in 2009 for playing a black character in Tropic Thunder.

Pumper I haven't read other threads! I have only read this one and have said surely it has to work both ways?

I actually agree with posters above who have said we have to draw a line somewhere and we can't erase history. He have the evaluate and learn from it.

Film is a powerful way of visualising both good and bad and engaging an audience.

What does ‘work both ways’ mean in this context?