Is Using An Accent Racist?

[Khandro]

The world's gone mad!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/09/british-conductor-sacked-us-music-festival-joke-labelled-racist/

[EDDIE51]

Vulcan, thanks for the link. It really is far worse than I dared imagine.
Students do not want to have to confront or even discuss issues of the real world. They seem to want to live in the sort of world that would exist in a pre school playgroup or nursery rather than a University.

[Khandro]

Liverpudlian Ken Dodd often came on stage wearing an enormous Tam-o-Shanter, carrying bagpipes and singing to the tune of 'Road to the Isles' "With ma' sporran full o' porridge and a caber up ma' kilt" ......

Did the Scots think this was blatant racism?

[ToraToraTora]

in a Scottish accent: What is the difference between Bing Crosby and Walt Disney? Bing sings and walt disney! boom boom

[webbo3]

So can get all the American Actors/actresses sacked whan they play an

[webbo3]

So can get all the American Actors/actresses sacked when they play an English person with a really bad accent.

Dick Van Dyke, watch your back.


Dave.

[EDDIE51]

^ Yes but at least he has now apologised for his 'atrocious' accent.

[Khandro]

As an aside: I wanted to be sure that the tune was called 'Road to the Isles', so I put in the title and 'youtube' and got a 7 minute rendition on the bagpipes - which I confess didn't at first sound too easy on the ear this Sunday morning.
While I was listening to it, I scrolled down to look at the comments below and someone had written, "You know you have balls of steel when you storm Sword beach with nothing more than a bagpipe playing this".

Which brought a tear to my eye.

[hereIam]

The officials at the University should have told this stupid woman where to go, but sadly that doesn't happen nowadays !

[Mamyalynne]

Well, Oregon Bach Festival have lost a talent they didn't deserve if they react like this.

[Peter Pedant]

gor - Tora
that is really good !

[Peter Pedant]

// So can get all the American Actors/actresses sacked when they play an English person with a really bad accent. //

there is a really awful hollywood film series - saints and sinners

'claimed' hem hem to be about the massacre of the American Observer Corps ( note personnel make up ) at Malmedy* in 1945 by an SS regiment ( adolf hitler lieb standardt I think - ik denke etc)

and there are survivors ! ( actually there werent)
including an RAF officer ( excuse me what did you just say ?)
who is played by a 'murican - with a truly terrible pukka accent

and his CV 'claims' specialises in WW2 british officer accents
( I only wish)

It would be dishonourable to say that one wants the so called British Officer to be shot early on in the film ( he isnt)

series 6 now playing near you
Oh I saaaay!

* please please army vets dont post - "I put Malmedy fooda google translayer and it didnt fink narfin!"
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_de_Baugnez

[douglas9401]

Hardly dem bones and waaaty melon in blackface is it.

[Khandro]

Well, I guess we'll never see the likes of this again;

[Patsy33]

I think people like the woman who reported Halls, I feel, is more dangerous than racists....

[anotheoldgit]

/// I mean didnt your parents say to you when you were 5
you have to be careful what you say in public /
mine did ///

No we lived in a country of free speech back then, we only later saw this type of Gestapo surveillance, years later in Germany and Russia.

[Peter Pedant]

//No we lived in a country of free speech back then,//

including mum I want to take a pass ? well really !
and mum there is a bit of snot dangling from your nose and it makes you look like Mrs McFungus
and what about - mum look at the man who has had his face shot off during the war - doesnt he look uuuuuuugly?

we were not encouraged in that direction