Thankfully Not Everyone Has Turned Into An Invertebrate.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebritynews/harry-enfield-i-have-no-regrets-about-blackface/ar-BB15kK7b?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout
well done Harry, here's the sketch in question and I suspect even Madiba himself would find it amusing:

[Ellipsis]

From one of my favourite films ... Dan Aykroyd blacks up alongside Eddie Murphy ...

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And from another good film, Eddie Murphy whites up as a Jew ...

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I don't think I'm ever going to find that unfunny - especially Eddie Murphy whiting up.

[pixie374]

I'd be more interested in the thoughts and feelings of somebody who isn't white... just to see. I would imagine that as it is acting, nobody is taking it seriously.... but... prepared to be wrong.

[andy-hughes]

What Harry understands is that everything is of its time.

He could do it then, probably not now, but retrospective shame is one of the more pointless obsessions which inflict our self-righteous brethren.

[TheWholeTruth]

"I'd be more interested in the thoughts and feelings of somebody who isn't white..."

why ?

i couldnt care less what they think, its my country if they dont like it here they shouldnt come here or leave and find somewhere that will pander and kow to to their demands
if i went to some african country and they had a tv program that was taking the pee out of whites or whatever i couldnt care less

[Mozz71]

//I'd be more interested in the thoughts and feelings of somebody who isn't white... just to see//

Well, you're never gonna get that on AB are you Pixie? Imagine a POC saying the found it offensive in AnswerBank. I dread to think what the reaction would be like, if the last few days are anything to go by.

[pixie374]

Sigh. Me too, mozz.... with the number of regular ABers, there are very few I know of who I know aren't white. I'm sure there must be more, but are not comfortable to say?

[THECORBYLOON]

"i couldnt care less what they think, its my country"

Is it not also their country?

[andy-hughes]

The Whole Truth - // i couldnt care less what they think, its my country if they dont like it here they shouldnt come here or leave and find somewhere that will pander and kow to to their demands //

I always respond in the same way, when someone says 'It's my country … ' -

In my belief, it's not 'your country' - it's the country which, by an accident of birth, you were fortunate enough to be born into, but that does not give you ownership of it, or the right to say who does and who does not live in it.

[tiggerblue10]

I'm not white.

Slightly digressing but my dad used to love watching Mind Your Language.

[andy-hughes]

tigger - // Slightly digressing but my dad used to love watching Mind Your Language. //

People did, because it was of its time.

Then, you could construct characters out of each and every cultural stereotype you can think of, and bounce their cultural differences off each other, and make people laugh.

Now, it would not be considered appropriate, but I am sure there is a petition to ban it from ever being seen again anywhere by anyone, being composed even as I write.

[divegirl]

''i couldnt care less what they think, its my country if they dont like it here they shouldnt come here or leave and find somewhere that will pander and kow to to their demands
if i went to some african country and they had a tv program that was taking the pee out of whites or whatever i couldnt care less''

Wow... just ... wow!

[Old_Geezer]

If someone simply wants to denigrate the country, wreck it and offend it's decent citizens with their acts and demands, should they really consider it to be "their" country ? It's a pity exile isn't an option for undesirables these days.

For better behaved citizens, being born in a country does make it their country.

Meanwhile, well done Harry.

[andy-hughes]

OG - // ... being born in a country does make it their country. //

I disagree - being born in a country makes it the country you were born in - it doesn't afford your ownership rights of any kind.

If you were born in the U.S., and live here - as Boris Johnson does, does that give you any right to say what happens there? I suggest not.

[douglas9401]

If you were born here and saw an assault resulting in death on the telly that happened 4000 odd miles away does that give you the right to start wrecking the land of your birth on behalf of the assaulted?

[Peter Pedant]

// OG - // ... being born in a country does make it their country. //
andy doesnt agree
so what it is the old law - jus soli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

Jus soli was part of the English common law, in contrast to jus sanguinis, which derives from the Roman law that influenced the civil-law systems of continental Europe.[4][5]

but statutes such as the British Nationality Act ( so many years - take you pick 1962) tended to change it

and so anomalously because our law givers are not as wise as they say
from being obviously British since I was born here, and my birth was not registered at any foreign embassy - jus soli geddit?

to jus gentium, not obviously British, deprivable by a court as I am eligible for another nationality - choice is an unenviable Pretoria or Bombay

sometimes it is not progress - it is different and not necessarily better