Wokeism Again - Part 2

[andy-hughes]

Last night I got around tyo watching the second half of Dirty Harry.

As I predicted, the piece of dialogue where the psycho referred to the man he paid to beat him somewhat unkindly, referring to his ethnicity and parentage, was cut, but the graphic beating scene was left intact.

It's odd that the history re-writers appear to find a serious extremely violent beating on film as acceptable, but racial epithets are deemed inappropriate and censored out.

I expected as much, and was not surprised.

[sanmac]

Scroll down to "The Language Police" video.

[New Judge]

//I'd strongly suggest the easily offended dont play Mafia III.//

And I'd strongly suggest the easily offended dont watch any films or the telly.

[andy-hughes]

sanmac - // You might be interested in this: https://canoe.com/ //

Personally - no, I'm not, thank you.

[sanmac]

The "you" was a general "you" to the posters on this thread. Not everything is about you you know.

[Mamyalynne]

I watched "The Language Police" video Sanmac, it was interesting and of course touched heavily on what we all know - context is everything.

[Mamyalynne]

Andy was at the bak of the 'Polite' queue when it was being dished out.

[sanmac]

Yes, ML, I also considered the video pertinent to the topic of so called "wokeism" and introduced some interesting points of view.

[sanmac]

As to your mention of a queue, you're quite correct. However, when queues were forming for the dispensing of less desirable personality traits, he was in the lead.

[1ozzy]

Welcome to the world of ancient keyboard warriors Sanmac.
I'm sure you will meet many here;-/

[naomi24]

Your video wouldn't play for me, sanmac.

//context is everything//

When people want use of words to be selectively censored - ie, the word *** is acceptable in one movie but not in another - who arbitrates - and why is their opinion any more valid than anyone else's? For example Douglas Bader's dog was called 'N' but his name has been changed in the movie even though it didn't apply to a human being and wasn't intended to insult anyone. I personally, thought it was fine but someone else decided on my behalf that it wasn't.

Incidentally, I've typed N to indicate the name of the dog but how ridiculous that is. I think of the whole name, I type N because I'm not allowed to type the whole name, everyone reading it has the whole name running through their heads and no one is in any doubt of what N means - but we all play the game because we're obliged to. It's nuts.

[andy-hughes]

sanmac - The "you" was a general "you" to the posters on this thread. Not everything is about you you know. //

Of course it was - which is why I specifically said that it was not for me personally.

You would understand that if you weren't so keen on having a nasty pointless dig - as you always do.

[andy-hughes]

Mamya - // Andy was at the bak of the 'Polite' queue when it was being dished out. //

I put a 'thank you' on my post - there is only you being impolite here.

[andy-hughes]

sanmac - // As to your mention of a queue, you're quite correct. However, when queues were forming for the dispensing of less desirable personality traits, he was in the lead. //

Yet again another pointless nasty dig.

If you have a grown-up contribution to make to the thread, then please post it, if you want to moan and make pointless personal nasty comments, save it for your playground.

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // ... but we all play the game because we're obliged to. //

This is the most vexatious aspect of wokeism, that it is allowed to permeate the everyday lives of people who don;t happen to share its sense of exagerated sensitivity and utterly undesered sense of self-righteousness.

At my age, I am increasingly less inclined to put up with strangers telling me what I can and cannot read, see, or hear.

[naomi24]

AH, //At my age, I am increasingly less inclined to put up with strangers telling me what I can and cannot read, see, or hear. //

And yet you said...

//Removing the word from some other films but not all is a different discussion. //

[davebro]

//For example Douglas Bader's dog was called 'N' but his name has been changed in the movie//

N was a male black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron.

[naomi24]

Of course it was, Dave. Silly me! Thanks. The principle is the same though.

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // AH, //At my age, I am increasingly less inclined to put up with strangers telling me what I can and cannot read, see, or hear. //

And yet you said...

//Removing the word from some other films but not all is a different discussion. //

I did say that - but that does not mean that, if that discussion took place, that my position on woke-ism would be any different than it is in this disucssion.

[naomi24]

In that case for you it isn't a different discussion.

[andy-hughes]

dave - // //For example Douglas Bader's dog was called 'N' but his name has been changed in the movie//

N was a male black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. //

I read that, and I didn't spot the error either!

It's yet another illustration of exactly the same point I made in my OP.

Language and attitudes in war time were a world away from what they are now, but pretending they were the same is doing a disservice to history and culture as a whole.