Last Night Of The Proms..racist

[fender62]

do you find the songs mentioned racist, cherry picking whats racist seems the new witch hunt.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8657909/Academics-demand-Rule-Britannia-Land-Hope-Glory-BANNED-Night-Proms.html

[retrocop]

Ironic that an objection is raised to certain hymns that are played at the proms.
Why shouldn't we celebrate our past glories.? If we were not glorious and victorious we would now be living under the Nazi Fascist Jackboot.
These Fascists wanted to ban literature from Jewish writers, what was perceived as decadent art and of course Black orchestrated Jazz music.
Now our modern day fascists are telling us what should or shouldn't be played at the proms. Give me the sound of Elgar any day in preference to the Irony Klaxons.
I suppose if Hitler had his way we would just have Wagner to listen to which is far superior to some of our modern day offerings.

[jno]

this thread is still carrying regardless of the BBC making it clear Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory will be played so people can wave flags in their living rooms after all ... well done, everyone, carry on bickering.

[Mamyalynne]

I'm partying, leave em be - you always get some like that.

[douglas9401]

Dr Sheldon Cooper asked me to thank the team for promoting flags, in his opinion a much maligned and misunderstood medium.

Standard stuff I thought.

[Theland]

Andy some of the problems in Africa are very simp!e to understand, and are not our responsibility, nor where they ever.
Kehinde Andrews and his tribe should go live there if they don't lime it here, along with Lammy, Abbott, Butler and Co.
I would not shed tears.

[Theland]

And I won't be taking the knee. They are taking the ***.

[Mamyalynne]

Who has asked you to do that?

[Mamyalynne]

Semaphore doug?

[Mozz71]

//And I won't be taking the knee. They are taking the ***.//

Nobody wants you to Captain Paranoid.

[Theland]

Not paranoid, simply wary.
Footballers and police have done it.
Is that right?

[Mozz71]

//Footballers and police have done it.
Is that right?//

Yes, but they have not forced anyone else to do it. I don't think you have anything to be wary of. Nobody wants or expects you to take the knee.

[THECORBYLOON]

Are you a footballer or in the police?

Are you likely to be asked to take the knee?

[Mozz71]

Even some of the footballers stopped doing it. Some Championship teams abandoned it after a few games. I think it was Millwall, QPR and Reading. Maybe others. And nobody os being criticized for not doing it in other sports. There have been refusals in Rugby and F1, nobody's faced any abuse or backlash.

[fender62]

Mozz71, virtue signalling thats all it is, some well know writers and others have been cancelled because they disagree with the woke signallers, taking the knee is like agreeing with black lives matter brigade..same people who want to (defund the police) and bring down capitalism, orwells 1984.

[Theland]

I hope peer pressure fizzling out.

[naomi24]

And as the good people of the Answerbank demonstrate their sneering disdain for the patriot, breathing a collective sigh of relief at the apparent placation of British traditionalists, a distinct whiff of whoosh may once again be observed obfuscating their consciousness. The good old BBC appears to have capitulated to public opinion and will play the beloved music …. but will the brave, Covid-defying soloist engaged to render ‘Jerusalem’ sing the lyrics to those cherished anthems too? Of course not. The ‘woke’ have their way …. as many of us suspected they would.

Be careful what you wish for.

[ichkeria]

"this thread is still carrying regardless of the BBC making it clear Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory will be played so people can wave flags in their living rooms after all ... well done, everyone, carry on bickering. "

Typical BBC: ruining everyone's outrage. And I now hope they get sent the ill for people's broken light shades and windows :-)

[naomi24]

Ichkeria, see my previous post.

[Old_Geezer]

Which are claimed to be the "racist" words ?

[ichkeria]

It was a daft idea, it's been dropped.