The National Forum   Donate   Your Account   On Line Opinion   Forum   Blogs   Polling   About   
The Forum - On Line Opinion's article discussion area



Syndicate
RSS/XML


RSS 2.0

Main Articles General

Sign In      Register

The Forum > Article Comments > Top Gear in the soup: Clarkson, nursery rhymes and political correctness > Comments

Top Gear in the soup: Clarkson, nursery rhymes and political correctness : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 7/5/2014

The new edition of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, released at the end of 2010, was excised of any reference to 'nigger', suggesting that sanitising history is one way of not telling it.

  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. Page 2
  4. All
Leslie - Are you ever capable of writing more then one liners? You are a very boring person I think. So at least put your opinions and views clearly, so we can all see it please ? Otherwise don't send one liners.
Posted by misanthrope, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 3:53:01 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
SPQR,
Was that Nazeem Hussein by any chance? I've seen his act live and it revolves around the immigrant spiv getting one up on the lumpen White "Aussie".
Ah yes the "new" comedy,Hannah Gadsby, Josh Thomas, Nazeem Hussein etc, I dunno, you'd think that the minimum standard for a "comedian" would be that they at least be....well.. FUNNY.
Did you see Tom Gleeson's opening monologue in the Great Debate the other night? That was "tolerance" humour done well.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 4:13:14 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Hi Jay,

No. I believe the comedian in question identified himself as of Korean extraction (so unlikely to be the ones you refer to).

And on a similar theme was the SBS comedy series "Legally Brown".
Posted by SPQR, Thursday, 8 May 2014 6:33:59 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
More professional do-gooders attempting to sanitize the world to make it child proof, rather than world-proofing their children. Pathetic. I suppose that means that no "white boy" can sing a song written by an African American rapper. Hey dawg! But that wouldn't be racism, would it [cynic]?
Posted by Dick Dastardly, Thursday, 8 May 2014 12:17:50 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. Page 2
  4. All

About Us :: Search :: Discuss :: Feedback :: Legals :: Privacy