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Woked in fright: the brief banning of Fawlty Towers : Comments
By Binoy Kampmark, published 15/6/2020Floyd's death has propelled a movement that has capitalised on a publicised event of police brutality in the United States to re-order matters and sort out grievance across the board.
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Posted by Alan B., Monday, 15 June 2020 12:31:07 PM
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I see that the article mentions n-ggers.
This has long been a BANNED word for OLO comments, attracting the red comment "Remove the profanity." Is n-ggers IN CONTEXT OK for articles but not, IN CONTEXT, OK for comments? For example, a few weeks ago, I was trying to point out that in the Queensland Parliament Hansard, in 1957, page 877, a Member of Parliament, Mr Jesson asks "I have been trying to discover the n-gger in the woodpile." Find that banned word in full by using Control-F for Hansard document http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/1957/1957_11_06_A.pdf . You will also see that OLO banned n-gger word in full on pages 876 and 878. So, is n-ggers IN CONTEXT OK for today's article. OK for the Queensland Parliamentary Hansard, but not, IN CONTEXT, OK for OLO comments? Just asking. Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 15 June 2020 12:59:01 PM
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Joe,
You and I have seen the best times. I am very glad about that. But those times are over, and it will be all downhill from here. As I said, I'm even gladder(?) that I won't be around to see what the nutters are bringing down on themselves. Posted by ttbn, Monday, 15 June 2020 1:14:08 PM
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I don't fear the future about race and culture.
in fact, I am writing a piece now about how Australia will flourish, albeit I strongly disagree with those simpletons on the left that would have us rewrite history. We are right to both question the past, and celebrate our historical progress. That is how Australia will remain a great society that comprises many races. Posted by Chris Lewis, Monday, 15 June 2020 1:39:03 PM
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Thanks, Chris, for maintaining an admirable level of bloody sense.
Joe Posted by loudmouth2, Monday, 15 June 2020 1:47:15 PM
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Joe, I have to say writing a piece on race and culture will probably be the hardest piece I have ever undertaken.
We will see what reaction I get or provoke Posted by Chris Lewis, Monday, 15 June 2020 2:39:27 PM
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One recalls how we, the right-minded folk of this land, assisted with the removal in South Africa of Apartied, with the use of sporting boycotts that worked when nothing else had!
There's just one race, the human race. All other difference is strickly cultural and learned!
Time we stopped racism and attacking/punishing folk for the crime of being poor, downtrodden, different or selectively disadvantaged on political grounds alone!
Alan B.