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Don't mention the stupidy of today's "woke-like" culture out there

Yet more truth and ranting from me. Now few things make me smile these days, so it really made me angry today on Valentine's Day to discover that the BBC dared to censor Fawlty Towers. Why? The whole series was used everywhere once to show how not to do it. I can't see the sense of it all. Does it really offend anyone these days? There's more filthy talk on here for one. Been called to shut up in very polite words just now on here because the person in question didn't dare to think. You don't understand my English, well, please learn atleast four languages and have a shot of dyslexia to boot. You don't understand why "Don't mention the Germans" is clean British humor, well, please tell yourself that you're the smartest pea in the pod here. Anyhow, it wasn’t the first time that “The Germans” episode of Fawlty Towers came under review, but this silliness needs to end. BBC2 removed the so-called offensive language in question when the said episode was repeated early on a Sunday evening ten years ago. “Public attitudes have changed since it was made and it was decided to make minor changes, with the consent of John Cleese’s management, to allow the episode to transmit to a family audience at 7.30pm on BBC2″, said a BBC spokesperson. I say that enough time has already passed for yet another change and lets get rid of all this stupid wokeness. Just listen to someone sane enough like James Carville on that in the Democratic Party. Not linked to the party as such but it really needs to said over and over again. Get rid of the woke culture on use in today's, or the more modern, meaning of the word everywhere. Bury the action instead of the word

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MartinII · 70-79, M Best Comment
They are thick. The whole point of Fawlty Towers was that it used language that was offensive even then. Not crude or obscene, but offensive. But it was done in a humorous, and extremely funny, way. They also, by the way, can’t write English. An episode can’t transmit, it can only be transmitted.

its like john saw it all coming

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The fact of white supremacists taking a black slang term that was once used to indicate understanding and empathy, and redefining it to perpetuate their hatred.

It’s frustrating as hell.
@val70
And I forgive you for you calling me a white supremacist.

I actually didn’t call you one. But that is who is mostly using the term now. I had a "Stay Woke” tee shirt that I wore in college (circa 1977) and the slang is older than that. In those days if you described a white friend as "woke" it was almost like vouching for them as someone trustworthy who "got" it. No small thing.

Then the mainstream culture got ahold of the term and all of a sudden someone who recycles is "woke" ? Please. And fast forward to this decade, now it’s "woke culture" ? Using the right pronoun ? The U.S. has never had a "woke" culture, ever. The people who don’t want one, based on it’s original meaning, are mostly white supremacists.
val70 · 51-55
@bijouxbroussard Please, don't be kind to me. Never be that, not even on here. You're only holding a mirror to yourself. I don't want to be hold to account like this to your own knowledge of the one term. You don't want to go beyond, sure, lets end this. I called something woke, alright, just because it fits. I reminds me of the shame a British tv-personality went through when he discovered that his black family in Jamaica were actually slave owners and not slaves. Did he needed to be ashamed because he just thought something? Pointing to some action that is wrong and it fits a broader culture in its actual historical progress is a lot harder than I actually thought some people would accept
@val70 That’s another facet of today’s interactions—people using terms they don’t really understand. So miscommunications ensue. Attempting to come to an understanding is usually wasted type & time. But hope springs eternal.
Slade · 56-60, M
I have the entire collection
val70 · 51-55
@Slade Me too. Everthing as it once was too
4meAndyou · F
AMEN!!! 👏👏👏
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