Graham Linehan

[Deskdiary]

Graham Linehan hits my funny bone square-on - I think Father Ted, The IT Crowd, Black Books and Motherland are works of inspired genius. Other's probably don't think that.

I've seen it said there's no such thing as "cancel culture" - I've even seen it said on this board, but that is just simply a lie. Linehan has been cancelled.

Linehan has been cancelled for holding views that the vast vast majority of people believe, such as;

1. Sex is immutable.

I hate to break it to those that thrive in cancelling, but this is 100% biologically correct - get over it.

2. Women (you know, the old-fashioned women, those that have a uterus), deserve their own spaces.

3. Transgender women (or men as they used to be called) have no place competing against real women in sport.

Leith Arches, the venue that has cancelled him has done so because they are "inclusive". Surely by cancelling him they have shown they are very much not inclusive.

Can anybody tell me why one of the greatest comedy writers of all time has been cancelled for holding views that the vast majority of the population agree with?

I haven't posted a link simply because there's far too many and I couldn't decide which one was the best to highlight the bigoted view of those who cancel.

[Deskdiary]

I’d you’ve never seen The IT Crowd I urge you to watch the Bosseyed episode.

It’s one of those comedy joys, like Del Boy and the bar, that makes me laugh out loud every time and wish I was watching it for the first time.

[wolf63]

Totally off subject, I watched a clip of Dave Allen today. The humour is very similar.

I get confused with the world these days. I just ignore most of it and try and be open minded about all the weird stuff.

[douglas9401]

He has another venue at the festival now.

[pastafreak]

It's become "let's accept everyone...but not anyone who doesn't hold the same views"

[Deskdiary]

That’s the point Pasta.

Only the ‘correct’ views are now valid. Those that don’t hold the ‘correct’ view (or in other words, a different view) are vilified.

JK Rowling was threatened with rape and death for having the ‘wrong’ view.

[douglas9401]

Perhaps a more forceful challenge of the gobby loons who think they run the show these days would help.

Throw the old, polite rule book out.

[Old_Geezer]

The 2nd venue also cancelled. Apparently ticket holderers have been informed of a 3rd venue.

This whole thing is disgusting. One can only hope the cancelling venues find a few years of boycott is the result of their appalling action.

[ToraToraTora]

It's the new fascism, agree with the "correct" view on any given subject or be punished.

[jno]

bakers don't have to make cakes for gays if they don't want to. Venues don't have to stage shows by gender-critical writers if they don't want to. That's the world we live in.

[Peter Pedant]

It's become "let's accept everyone...but not anyone who doesn't hold the same views"

oh that is AB isnt it? ter daaah !

[david small]

I consider numbers 1. 2. 3. As self evident and irrefutable.
Let the woke crowd rage, they don’t bother me anyway.

[Peter Pedant]

Venues don't have to stage shows by gender-critical writers if they don't want to.

in the normal world, the theatre has to decide whether the show they are sent will make a profit... twas aways thus

[Old_Geezer]

But they'd be morally wrong to cancel on someone having previously agreed, as it is an inappropriate "justification". Which is why one hopes they suffer the consequences arising from decent members of the public avoiding the venue in future.

[Deskdiary]

Clearly jno doesn’t understand, or more likely (as per) is being wilfully obtuse. This situation is nothing like the bakers.

(BTW, anathema as it may be to you, the law sided with the bakers.)

This is about the cancel culture that undoubtedly exists, and cancelling somebody who expresses opinions that the vast majority of people agree with.

You may not like the opinion of the vast majority, but simply that makes you wrong.

[ToraToraTora]

DD: "Clearly jno doesn’t understand, or more likely (as per) is being wilfully obtuse. " - yep that's our jno!

[douglas9401]

Oh dear, the anti-cancellers are trying to cancel by haranguing.

No, I'm not sure how to spell it.

[andy-hughes]

I do think that the entire concept of 'cancelling' is abhorrent.

I don;t understand why the woke brigade fail to grasp that 'inclusivivity' means exactly that - and it's not confined to the people who think and speak as they do.

If someone wants to adopt a view about the persecution of a section of society, then persecution of someone who happens to hold a different view, is surely rather against the point.

I must confess, at my age, I don't bump into people who think and feel like this, but if I did, there would be a robust conversation taking place.

[Deskdiary]

If you did bump into somebody who felt you had the ‘wrong’ opinion Andy, you would be cancelled. The woke (and woke is a legitimate term) simply cannot accept that people may have the temerity to disagree with them.

[andy-hughes]

Deskdiary - // If you did bump into somebody who felt you had the ‘wrong’ opinion Andy, you would be cancelled. //

That would be interesting - I wonder what it would feel like.

I suppose, if you think about it, being 'cancelled' is a nebulous concept, much like 'fame' and 'celebrity' - commonly used words, with no actual concrete definition we can all understand and use as a reference point.

But to repeat my point, it is fascism write large, and it has no place in a modern society.