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Old 23-10-2021, 13:58   #20
RichardCoulter
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Re: Racist Sky channel?

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Originally Posted by pip08456 View Post
What else do you expect from Richard?
It isn't me that's saying it, that's why it was phrased as a question.

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
If you’re surprised, then you have serious difficulty telling the difference between fashionable virtue signalling and actual anti-racist activity.

The National Theatre of Scotland clearly wants to be seen to be doing something, but prefers to do things that don’t cost them anything, like banning common English words with uncontroversial etymologies, rather than genuinely transformational policies like working extensively with poor state schools whose pupils are unlikely to get the sort of education that lands them a job with NTS by the usual routes.

I doubt very much anyone at Sky gave a moment’s thought about the use of the word “spook”. Bus seeing as you brought it up, do you propose to exclaim your surprise at every supermarket, magazine and tv channel that uses the word over the next week? Will Strictly Come Dancing be racist when it inevitably uses the word multiple times in next Saturday’s hallowe’en special?

If you really are triggered by this you must have totally freaked out when the BBC put Spooks back on the iPlayer. You should write in and see if they’ll put an “outdated social attitudes” warning on it.
The surprise that I referred to was that companies these days are terrified of being tarred with the R word and go to great, sometimes spurious, lengths to show how woke they are.

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What a total waste of a thread, the lunatics really have taken over the asylum.
If this is being highlighted, it's a good thing surely.

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Originally Posted by Russ View Post
I’m not surprised, seeing as it’s a UK channel on a UK service.
...that's owned by an American company, most of whom are ultra woke these days, that's what i'm actually surprised about.
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