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Is this a picture of the new 2001ish box around Churchill’s statue or the Cenotaph, Edward Luyten’s revered memorial for the dead of World War I?

From the Daily Mail:

He vowed never to surrender to the Nazis but now Churchill and the Cenotaph are hidden in boxes after London mayor Sadiq Khan boards up monuments to protect them from protesters – as BLM cancels rally over ‘threats from many hate groups’
Scaffolding sprung up around Churchill’s statue at Parliament Square and nearby Cenotaph late on Thursday
The monument of Britain’s war-time leader was covered in graffiti saying ‘Churchill was a racist’ last weekend
It comes amid fears of a clash between Black Lives Matters activists and far-right thugs in the capital city
The covering of British historical monuments prompted outrage from a number of Tory MPs last night
The protests has ignited a discussion about Britain’s imperial past and figures associated with slavery
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals revealed statue of Thomas Guy would be removed following public pressure
By JOE MIDDLETON and JEMMA CARR and MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 20:48 EDT, 11 June 2020 | UPDATED: 06:09 EDT, 12 June 2020

In the background is Churchill’s senior partner in the great Liberal government of roughly 1906-1919, David Lloyd-George, victor in the Great War.

In other news, perhaps the greatest high point of the sitcom art, the “Don’t Mention the War” episode of John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers has been canceled from the BBC streaming service. The early part of the episode is less funny than most Fawlty Towers episodes, but it builds to a peerless climax: “You started it. You invaded Poland!”

The BBC Comedy Script Editor who rejected the pilot screenplay for Fawlty Towers in 1974 wasn’t behind the times, he was 46 years in advance of his times.

 
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  1. Wow, they’ve done what Hitler, Stalin, Joe Kennedy and FDR could only dream of.

  2. The big statue which appears at the end of the first Planet of Apes movie c.1967. Prophetic?

    • Replies: @Oswald Spengler
    @Jack McArthur

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDLS12_a-fk

    Those maniacs -- they finally, really did it!

  3. Semi O/T.
    Get a load of these fine British people who lost their lives to the Kung Flu.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/nhs-workers-died-coronavirus-frontline-victims/
    Britain used to be p0pulated by actual Brits. Now it’s a third world shithole.

  4. Churchill is in a box. Kind of like the one he put Great Britain in.

    • Replies: @Jake
    @RichardTaylor

    That is it. What Britain now suffers comes inevitably from the history of the British Empire. Churchill is central to getting us all here.

    The sun never set on the British Empire. The sun never sets on the American Empire, best known as The Anglo-Zionist Empire, Part 2. WASP culture was made global, THE ruling culture of the globe to which all those fearing power and all those envying power bowed and to which they began assimilating. The entire world has been Anglicized in the sense that world Elites, with a couple of obvious exceptions, operate in the world very much as if they are the new Anglo-Saxon Puritan regicides (they must war every second against Christ the King and any possibility of Christendom) and all 'other' whites are Irish Catholics, who either are to be slaughtered or rounded up and quarantined in dire poverty.

    For those of you who prefer to see in the eyes of the Jewish half of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, we are all Palestinians.

    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war. And that means that WASP culture, like a giant con game of incalculable violence, eventually will implode, leaving chaos. Before the implosion, the Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire will use their non-white minions and anti-Christ minions to terrorize non-WASP whites they rule on the grandest scale yet, to make certain that when the damn breaks, there is no possibility whatsoever that Christendom can be revived anywhere in the Anglosphere or Western Europe.

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Replies: @RichardTaylor, @kaganovitch, @syonredux, @SunBakedSuburb, @GoRedWings!, @obvious, @Expletive Deleted

    , @Oswald Spengler
    @RichardTaylor

    "Churchill is in a box."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHzfhU8t5i8

  5. Looks like a holocaust statue.

  6. You’re speechless now, because you’ve been speechless for years.

    (not necessarily directed at that particular tweeter)

    • Agree: Mr. Anon, Peter Frost
  7. ‘Mostly peaceful riots’? Mainstream media has given up any shred of objectivity over BLM violence. How thick do they think we are?

    It also bleeds into coverage of the issues surrounding the protests, such as deaths in police custody. On June 3, the BBC published an analysis breaking down by race the number of people who have died in police custody in England and Wales over the past ten years.

    What this piece found was that 85% of people who have died in police custody since 2009 were white and 8% were black. That means that a white person who is arrested is 25% more likely to die in police custody than a black person. The article was headlined: “George Floyd death: How many black people die in police custody in England and Wales?”

    Do we for one second believe if it had turned out that black people were 25% more likely to die in police custody than white people that this wouldn’t have been the headline? One doesn’t need to be a rocket scientist to conclude that they are burying this fact because it doesn’t fit the narrative.

    Even the immigrant hating, Tory loving, evil Daily Mail is joining in on the act. This week it ran an article headlined “Fears of violence as far-Right groups outline plans to ‘defend’ statues in London this weekend”. Oh now there are fears of violence? Because last weekend’s statue toppling, police attacking, missile throwing display of unbridled yobbery was completely justified because it was done in the name of diversity?

  8. Why do I have the feeling that ‘threats from right-wing hate groups’ means that the powers that be found that BLM riots are polling badly, and they want to walk it back?

  9. Sadiq Khan is the Mayor of London and he hates Britain

  10. His reward for serving the Jews

  11. • Replies: @BenKenobi
    @Charon

    It's a reverse-Monolith. It makes the monkeys dumber.

  12. Everyone intelligent knows Winston Churchill was Black.

    Evil settler colonialists have hidden this fact, just as rampaging KKK activists in London have hidden his statue behind this board.

    It’s racism!

    • Replies: @Not Only Wrathful
    @Not Only Wrathful

    Alternatively, it has been 30,000 years with only white people being represented in statues in Great Britain. This is a lot of inequality to make up for; and it means that, for the next 30,000 years, only Black people should have statues up in Britain.

    This is equality.

    Replies: @Dieter Kief

  13. @Not Only Wrathful
    Everyone intelligent knows Winston Churchill was Black.

    Evil settler colonialists have hidden this fact, just as rampaging KKK activists in London have hidden his statue behind this board.

    It's racism!

    Replies: @Not Only Wrathful

    Alternatively, it has been 30,000 years with only white people being represented in statues in Great Britain. This is a lot of inequality to make up for; and it means that, for the next 30,000 years, only Black people should have statues up in Britain.

    This is equality.

    • Replies: @Dieter Kief
    @Not Only Wrathful

    Eventually, this equality-craze will equal out. People will look back amused: How come, in those days, everybody had to think that everybody is equal? - In retrospect, this way of thinking will look too simple to have been able to ever catch on, really. Then some historians will stand and declare firmly: That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say.

    PS
    Confident, informal, optimistic - that's what Grammarly says about my post. Fine.

    Replies: @Prester John, @vhrm

  14. David Attenborough, the nearest thing Brits have to a secular saint, has video pulled.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8412895/David-Attenborough-WWF-charity-video-deleted-racism-fears.html

    A Sir David Attenborough conservation charity video has been deleted after his voiceover talked about controlling population growth over images of Asian people.

    The World Wildlife Fund UK shared the footage of people bathing in a river as Sir David, 94, urges listeners to ‘stabilise the human population.’

    Viewers were quick to slam the footage as racist, claiming it unfairly ‘blames people of colour for a growing global population’.

    The World Wildlife Fund deleted the video hours after sharing it. They wrote on Twitter: ‘Earlier today we shared a video that could appear to support a narrative that people of colour are responsible for the pressures of a growing world population. This is not our intent at all. We have deleted the video and apologise – we will do better.’

    Time to get out the World’s Most Important Graph again, I think. He’d have been OK if only the people had been white.

    Other edited versions of the clip have Sir David talking about population growth, but only white people are shown while he does, The Times reports.

    Fewer ‘people of colour’ – bad.
    Fewer ‘people of pallor’ – good.

    In totally unrelated news: “Abortions in England and Wales last year were at their highest number since the 1967 Abortion Act was introduced. Of the 209,519 terminated pregnancies in the two countries in 2019, 207,384 were for women resident there, the Department of Health confirmed yesterday.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8411627/Abortion-numbers-reach-record-high-210-000-England-Wales-year.html

  15. Anon[150] • Disclaimer says:

    I think they could come up with a pull-down resistant statue. Sink a huge steel beam 20 feet into the ground. Put arm on spring loaded hinges. Make dozens of original duplicates of fragile parts like eyeglasses or whips that can screwed out and replaced. Bollards to prevent vehicular approaches

    Or make a couple of duplicate statues.

    Best approach: surveillance to identify perps, prosecute them, and give them hard time.

    The D.C. Martin Luther King statue is pretty clever: bas relief coming out of a huge stone, Egyptian pharaoh style. Abu Simbel lasted millennia against vandals using that one weird trick.

    • Replies: @Aardvark
    @Anon

    How about one that explodes when you mess with it or could spray toxic fumes if you try tagging it?
    Then it must be respected for being lethal.

    Oh wait - that would start the same mess all over again...

    Replies: @MEH 0910

  16. The Cultural Revolution has reached the West. After Rhodes, it was logical that Churchill – Minister for the Colonies, an Imperialist – must fall. This may extend down to William the Conqueror. The Royal Family is saved from its hyper-Whiteness by Meghan.

  17. Well… Is there any white personality that is not at heart a “racist”? In the future, all statues allowed will be like this:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/world/europe/denmark-statue-black-woman.html

    Europeans, bow down to your new overlords.

    The problem of crazy things happening in the US is that they end up being imitated all over the place. Almost all dumb American ideas eventually wreck havoc everywhere else in the West… I doubt such vandalism would happen in the UK and other countries if not for the US making it “cool” somehow.

    • Replies: @Agathoklis
    @Dumbo

    No one cool looks to America for coolness. That idea passed in the 1960s.

    Replies: @PiltdownMan, @Almost Missouri

    , @Altai
    @Dumbo

    Only one academic sphere could be said to be totally dominated by America and that sociology. Sociology legitimises profoundly political ideas into TINA ideas and as a discipline has only grown more extremist over time.

    America is an empire and the West are somewhat allied vassal states. The American media is totally dominant. (To the point that many criminals in Europe will be surprised on their first arrest that they aren't read their miranda rights) English is the lingua franca and the moral and social values imparted by American TV and films are absorbed.

    America become mutli-ethnic and had to lie to itself that this was actually good and it's strength (Partly due to the places immigrants settled in being the economic and culturally dominant places) therefore everyone else should be too. It won't tolerate countries actively seeking to defend their indigenous population's status as being anything less than a moral an abomination. While simultaneously it's citizens define themselves by their ancestry from the ethnicities of Europe and express admiration of specific peoples and their appearances, cultures or demeanor.

    Songs like this aren't made for no reason.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjY4Wj_-Zec

    , @Bragadocious
    @Dumbo


    Almost all dumb American ideas eventually wreck havoc everywhere else in the West… I doubt such vandalism would happen in the UK and other countries if not for the US making it “cool” somehow

     

    Wow we certainly are powerful aren't we! Maybe the Brits wouldn't have such a problem if they hadn't egged on the rioters at the outset...the American rioters that is...with their inflammatory coverage. (By the way, the Brits always do this. They did it during the 1992 L.A. riots as well. But there was no Internet then so 99.9% of Americans were unaware.)

    The British play a dangerous game, encouraging violence and mayhem in the country they resent the most while thinking there will be no blowback on their quiet, blessed plot. I'm delighted they're getting blowback.

    Replies: @Gordo

  18. @RichardTaylor
    Churchill is in a box. Kind of like the one he put Great Britain in.

    Replies: @Jake, @Oswald Spengler

    That is it. What Britain now suffers comes inevitably from the history of the British Empire. Churchill is central to getting us all here.

    The sun never set on the British Empire. The sun never sets on the American Empire, best known as The Anglo-Zionist Empire, Part 2. WASP culture was made global, THE ruling culture of the globe to which all those fearing power and all those envying power bowed and to which they began assimilating. The entire world has been Anglicized in the sense that world Elites, with a couple of obvious exceptions, operate in the world very much as if they are the new Anglo-Saxon Puritan regicides (they must war every second against Christ the King and any possibility of Christendom) and all ‘other’ whites are Irish Catholics, who either are to be slaughtered or rounded up and quarantined in dire poverty.

    For those of you who prefer to see in the eyes of the Jewish half of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, we are all Palestinians.

    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war. And that means that WASP culture, like a giant con game of incalculable violence, eventually will implode, leaving chaos. Before the implosion, the Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire will use their non-white minions and anti-Christ minions to terrorize non-WASP whites they rule on the grandest scale yet, to make certain that when the damn breaks, there is no possibility whatsoever that Christendom can be revived anywhere in the Anglosphere or Western Europe.

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    • Thanks: Dumbo
    • Replies: @RichardTaylor
    @Jake

    Yes, Churchill made terrible mistakes. But all the evidence points to an anti-White agenda as what we see in the world, not a religious war. The E Michael Jones stuff is just too woo woo.

    , @kaganovitch
    @Jake

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Can Velvet be far behind?

    Replies: @Known Fact, @Dieter Kief

    , @syonredux
    @Jake

    Try a little less caffeine.....

    , @SunBakedSuburb
    @Jake

    "the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war"

    Anything Germanic pagan would be a good weapon in the war against Woke.

    Replies: @S. Anonyia

    , @GoRedWings!
    @Jake


    the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war
     
    This sounds like British wartime propaganda. Germanic people are the most peaceful on earth. This excludes Britons, but includes white Americans by virtue of the Germanic component (USA was an isolationist country without colonies until 1917)
    , @obvious
    @Jake

    What a bunch of bullshit, The least devout, most pagan people are the Roman Catholics. Peter did not found a Church in Rome of all places, at least not the Peter who was an Apostle.

    The whole thing is a gigantic ripoff by lesser races like the Irish Chocoholics", all of whom are come later and after tryharders, who cannot read or understand the Bible, and who are not at all the Lost Sheep of Israel. Roman Catholicism is a counterfeit religion designed to imitate the Real Israelite Commonwealth.

    Of COURSE the Puritan is "Judaizing"AND "Germanic", that's what we call it "Israel". So typical and try to have to both ways: cant invent anything but must appropriate the invention. King James lost his head because he insisted on making war and costing the lives of tens of thousands. Nobody has to put up with that shyte, and Kings must be subject servants of God, not emperors.

    , @Expletive Deleted
    @Jake


    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war.
     
    I'm keen to have your most precise definition of this abominable WASP monster, so that I can recognise it when it appears. Sounds absolutely frightful, and obviously disturbs you very much. Should I check under the bed at night?

    t. old English Protestant man.
  19. Antifa, Hitler’s revenge.

    • Replies: @Dieter Kief
    @Sorel McRae


    Antifa, Hitler’s revenge.
     
    Antifa did spring from the street fights which led to the (intended, on the Antifa side from the beginning) destruction of the parliamentary Weimar Republic. What they did not foresee was their defeat. - And their worldwide resurrection decades after Hitler with Hitler being their by far strongest reference?
    Or scapegoat? Ally? - The world is so complicated these days.

    Replies: @Altai

  20. @Dumbo
    Well... Is there any white personality that is not at heart a "racist"? In the future, all statues allowed will be like this:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/world/europe/denmark-statue-black-woman.html

    Europeans, bow down to your new overlords.

    The problem of crazy things happening in the US is that they end up being imitated all over the place. Almost all dumb American ideas eventually wreck havoc everywhere else in the West... I doubt such vandalism would happen in the UK and other countries if not for the US making it "cool" somehow.

    Replies: @Agathoklis, @Altai, @Bragadocious

    No one cool looks to America for coolness. That idea passed in the 1960s.

    • Agree: Ian Smith
    • Replies: @PiltdownMan
    @Agathoklis


    No one cool looks to America for coolness. That idea passed in the 1960s.
     
    Too bad it didn't last until the 1970s. They missed out.

    https://i.imgur.com/ohCaqzU.jpg
    , @Almost Missouri
    @Agathoklis

    Would that it had, but all the facts on the ground say otherwise. Why are all Western nations, with no native reason to do so, now imitating the US's BLM terrorist riots?

    Even the NYT article Dumbo cited describes how very white Denmark just spent $25m to get a statue of some black woman in a style that “recalls the iconic 1967 photograph of Huey P. Newton, founder of the [terrorist] Black Panther Party” to torment itself with. What could be a more slavish imitation of fashionable American ideology?

    Why Europeans in particular, who should have much better things to do, want to import our worst ideas is a complete mystery to me. The false "coolness" of the modern US is the parsimonious explanation.

    Replies: @stillCARealist, @a reader, @SunBakedSuburb, @Charlotte, @Agathoklis

  21. I thought the climax was the German’s remark “How did they ever win?”.

  22. @Agathoklis
    @Dumbo

    No one cool looks to America for coolness. That idea passed in the 1960s.

    Replies: @PiltdownMan, @Almost Missouri

    No one cool looks to America for coolness. That idea passed in the 1960s.

    Too bad it didn’t last until the 1970s. They missed out.

  23. @Not Only Wrathful
    @Not Only Wrathful

    Alternatively, it has been 30,000 years with only white people being represented in statues in Great Britain. This is a lot of inequality to make up for; and it means that, for the next 30,000 years, only Black people should have statues up in Britain.

    This is equality.

    Replies: @Dieter Kief

    Eventually, this equality-craze will equal out. People will look back amused: How come, in those days, everybody had to think that everybody is equal? – In retrospect, this way of thinking will look too simple to have been able to ever catch on, really. Then some historians will stand and declare firmly: That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say.

    PS
    Confident, informal, optimistic – that’s what Grammarly says about my post. Fine.

    • Replies: @Prester John
    @Dieter Kief

    On those rare occasions when one of these people is asked to define "equality" the response consists of variations on "umm...uhh...well, you know..." .

    , @vhrm
    @Dieter Kief


    That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say.
     
    Not like day and night, those actually exist...
    It'll be like the static Earth at the center of the universe model with every more complex and unlikely explanations for how racism causes the observed phenomena.

    But even those models actually worked... so they'll probably look back on it more like we look at astrology or
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism

    Replies: @Dieter Kief, @Dieter Kief

  24. Well in fairness, you do not see any statues of top opium dealers from the 19th century in China either, or statues of Genghis Khan in China, or statues honoring Curtis Lemay in Tokyo, so fair is fair. And people here would find statues honoring Omar Thornton offensive too I bet.

    • Replies: @Neuday
    @Znzn


    Well in fairness, you do not see any statues of top opium dealers from the 19th century in China either, or statues of Genghis Khan in China, or statues honoring Curtis Lemay in Tokyo, so fair is fair. And people here would find statues honoring Omar Thornton offensive too I bet.
     
    Yeah, but every podunk burb in America has a Holocaust Memorial.
    , @Mannlicher
    @Znzn


    Well in fairness, you do not see any statues of top opium dealers from the 19th century in China either, or statues of Genghis Khan in China, or statues honoring Curtis Lemay in Tokyo, so fair is fair. And people here would find statues honoring Omar Thornton offensive too I bet.
     
    There actually are, like this one Hohhot, in Inner Mongolia.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/GenghisKhanMonument.jpg
  25. @Jake
    @RichardTaylor

    That is it. What Britain now suffers comes inevitably from the history of the British Empire. Churchill is central to getting us all here.

    The sun never set on the British Empire. The sun never sets on the American Empire, best known as The Anglo-Zionist Empire, Part 2. WASP culture was made global, THE ruling culture of the globe to which all those fearing power and all those envying power bowed and to which they began assimilating. The entire world has been Anglicized in the sense that world Elites, with a couple of obvious exceptions, operate in the world very much as if they are the new Anglo-Saxon Puritan regicides (they must war every second against Christ the King and any possibility of Christendom) and all 'other' whites are Irish Catholics, who either are to be slaughtered or rounded up and quarantined in dire poverty.

    For those of you who prefer to see in the eyes of the Jewish half of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, we are all Palestinians.

    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war. And that means that WASP culture, like a giant con game of incalculable violence, eventually will implode, leaving chaos. Before the implosion, the Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire will use their non-white minions and anti-Christ minions to terrorize non-WASP whites they rule on the grandest scale yet, to make certain that when the damn breaks, there is no possibility whatsoever that Christendom can be revived anywhere in the Anglosphere or Western Europe.

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Replies: @RichardTaylor, @kaganovitch, @syonredux, @SunBakedSuburb, @GoRedWings!, @obvious, @Expletive Deleted

    Yes, Churchill made terrible mistakes. But all the evidence points to an anti-White agenda as what we see in the world, not a religious war. The E Michael Jones stuff is just too woo woo.

  26. @Sorel McRae
    Antifa, Hitler’s revenge.

    Replies: @Dieter Kief

    Antifa, Hitler’s revenge.

    Antifa did spring from the street fights which led to the (intended, on the Antifa side from the beginning) destruction of the parliamentary Weimar Republic. What they did not foresee was their defeat. – And their worldwide resurrection decades after Hitler with Hitler being their by far strongest reference?
    Or scapegoat? Ally? – The world is so complicated these days.

    • Replies: @Altai
    @Dieter Kief

    The the political wings of the antifa split the left and ultimately gave an opening for the Nazis.

    Replies: @Dieter Kief

  27. @Jake
    @RichardTaylor

    That is it. What Britain now suffers comes inevitably from the history of the British Empire. Churchill is central to getting us all here.

    The sun never set on the British Empire. The sun never sets on the American Empire, best known as The Anglo-Zionist Empire, Part 2. WASP culture was made global, THE ruling culture of the globe to which all those fearing power and all those envying power bowed and to which they began assimilating. The entire world has been Anglicized in the sense that world Elites, with a couple of obvious exceptions, operate in the world very much as if they are the new Anglo-Saxon Puritan regicides (they must war every second against Christ the King and any possibility of Christendom) and all 'other' whites are Irish Catholics, who either are to be slaughtered or rounded up and quarantined in dire poverty.

    For those of you who prefer to see in the eyes of the Jewish half of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, we are all Palestinians.

    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war. And that means that WASP culture, like a giant con game of incalculable violence, eventually will implode, leaving chaos. Before the implosion, the Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire will use their non-white minions and anti-Christ minions to terrorize non-WASP whites they rule on the grandest scale yet, to make certain that when the damn breaks, there is no possibility whatsoever that Christendom can be revived anywhere in the Anglosphere or Western Europe.

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Replies: @RichardTaylor, @kaganovitch, @syonredux, @SunBakedSuburb, @GoRedWings!, @obvious, @Expletive Deleted

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Can Velvet be far behind?

    • LOL: Mark G.
    • Replies: @Known Fact
    @kaganovitch

    Satin and Velvet -- Aren't they those two conservative black chicks?

    , @Dieter Kief
    @kaganovitch


    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Can Velvet be far behind?
     
    Blue Velvet, if you please.
  28. @Agathoklis
    @Dumbo

    No one cool looks to America for coolness. That idea passed in the 1960s.

    Replies: @PiltdownMan, @Almost Missouri

    Would that it had, but all the facts on the ground say otherwise. Why are all Western nations, with no native reason to do so, now imitating the US’s BLM terrorist riots?

    Even the NYT article Dumbo cited describes how very white Denmark just spent $25m to get a statue of some black woman in a style that “recalls the iconic 1967 photograph of Huey P. Newton, founder of the [terrorist] Black Panther Party” to torment itself with. What could be a more slavish imitation of fashionable American ideology?

    Why Europeans in particular, who should have much better things to do, want to import our worst ideas is a complete mystery to me. The false “coolness” of the modern US is the parsimonious explanation.

    • Agree: Servant of Gla'aki
    • Replies: @stillCARealist
    @Almost Missouri

    yep, the Euros love to hate on America and look down on us, and then go and copy all our horrible cultural trends. I suspect the parts of America that they hate are the Christian gun-owners while looking to the secular weirdos for their inspiration.

    It seems life's just no fun if you can't look down on someone who is a lot like yourself... only, you know, not as cool as you. looking down on some homeless guy is a waste of effort.

    , @a reader
    @Almost Missouri


    white Denmark just spent $25m to get a statue of some black woman
     
    A M, if you allow me, my understanding is that $25m was the price of the 3 islands sold by Denmark.

    (I could be wrong, of course).

    , @SunBakedSuburb
    @Almost Missouri

    "Why"

    Woke has infected every Western political system. Now the Temple of the Sacred Black Body is built in every land systemic whitey calls home. Thanks Christians and corporate sports fans. And Dog-Moms.

    , @Charlotte
    @Almost Missouri

    Twenty some years ago, visiting Norway, I thought to myself, “Norwegians are incredibly fortunate to have a homogeneous population. No black people to speak of, no endless squabbling over racist this and affirmative action that, no permanent divisions within society . . . .” There was no doubt in my mind that homogeneity had a lot to do with the apparent uniformly high standard of living, tidy neighborhoods, etc. The irony with which I remember that can’t be overstated.

    , @Agathoklis
    @Almost Missouri

    Not ALL western nations imitated the BLM protests. In Eastern Europe and South-Eastern Europe; and particularly, the Balkans and Russia there were very few protests. Also, I would not call the BLM Euro protesters cool but an assortment of riff raff losers.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

  29. I think the real reason that episode of Fawlty Towers has been memory-holed is the repeated use of the N-word by the crusty old major, reminiscing about a cricket match he attended as a young man. It’s not a particularly funny scene but still quite remarkable in its own way. I remember seeing it on repeats broadcast in the 1990s or even early 2000s – it’s only since then that it’s been deemed verboten (or maybe only since then that the’y’ve bothered to check for these things).

  30. Somewhere Down Below, the Bohemian Corporal is laughing.

  31. perhaps the greatest high point of the sitcom art, the “Don’t Mention the War” episode of John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers

    The rat episode was better.

    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @peterike

    Aren't there Germans in the rat episode too? IIRC the Major goes to shoot the rat, and Basil thinks he's after the German guests.


    "But they're vermin, Fawlty!"

    "Er, quite - but forgive and forget, eh, Major?"
     

    Replies: @Ganderson

    , @Ganderson
    @peterike

    The kind of argument I love- which Fawlty is better; is Reggie Perrin better than Blackadder, and where does Yes (Prime) Minister fit in the hierarchy? And what about the Two Ronnies?

  32. @Dieter Kief
    @Not Only Wrathful

    Eventually, this equality-craze will equal out. People will look back amused: How come, in those days, everybody had to think that everybody is equal? - In retrospect, this way of thinking will look too simple to have been able to ever catch on, really. Then some historians will stand and declare firmly: That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say.

    PS
    Confident, informal, optimistic - that's what Grammarly says about my post. Fine.

    Replies: @Prester John, @vhrm

    On those rare occasions when one of these people is asked to define “equality” the response consists of variations on “umm…uhh…well, you know…” .

  33. The early part of the episode is less funny than most Fawlty Towers episodes

    I’m going to take issue with this. The first part is superior to the second. It has the priceless moment of the major talking to the moose head, and then there’s the absolutely awful overacting of the Germans.

    What people don’t get, or don’t want to get about the bit where the major talks about niggers, is that it’s a satire that’s on the side of people who got it banned. The whole joke of that interaction is that the major and Fawlty are throwing around racial epithets and talking about how irrational women are, while they can barely have a conversation because of how loopy they are. It’s a classic “this bigot is worse than the people he looks down on” bit.

    • Replies: @Rob (London)
    @kihowi

    I mostly agree - the Major isn't "a bigot" per se, just an old dodderer who absorbed the norms of his day. He's generally portrayed as a decent old chap.

    The scene in question is more surreal than anything - two slightly (or more than slightly) unhinged characters, with no real mutual understanding, having a nonsensical dialogue. It could almost be a Python sketch actually.

    Anyway, the good news is that the BBC appears to be restoring the episode to its streaming platform, albeit with a pompous "context" warning message.

    It occurs to me than an episode of the original British "The Office" (2001) contains an episode with (I think) two uses of the N-word. I remember watching it at the time and it felt naughty but not scandalous, and I'm pretty certain there were no complaints. Unimaginable now.

    Replies: @Anonymous

  34. I guess it’s time to vandalize Karl Marx’s tomb again? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/05/karl-marx-london-grave-vandalised-suspected-hammer-attack-highgate-cemetery

    What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander. Let’s see if there some old writings of Lenin and Trotsky where they dropped the “n-word”.

    • Replies: @degsy
    @Hrw-500

    The first volume of "Capital" has multiple references to "kaffirs" ie arguably a worse "slur" than the dreaded en-word..

  35. BLM ‘activists’ but ‘far right thugs’. Even the Daily Mail is following the Narrative.

  36. “It comes amid fears of a clash between Black Lives Matters activists and far-right thugs.”

    Black Lives Matters are “activists.” Opposers are “far-right thugs.” 😉

  37. Altai [AKA "Altai_2"] says:
    @Dumbo
    Well... Is there any white personality that is not at heart a "racist"? In the future, all statues allowed will be like this:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/world/europe/denmark-statue-black-woman.html

    Europeans, bow down to your new overlords.

    The problem of crazy things happening in the US is that they end up being imitated all over the place. Almost all dumb American ideas eventually wreck havoc everywhere else in the West... I doubt such vandalism would happen in the UK and other countries if not for the US making it "cool" somehow.

    Replies: @Agathoklis, @Altai, @Bragadocious

    Only one academic sphere could be said to be totally dominated by America and that sociology. Sociology legitimises profoundly political ideas into TINA ideas and as a discipline has only grown more extremist over time.

    America is an empire and the West are somewhat allied vassal states. The American media is totally dominant. (To the point that many criminals in Europe will be surprised on their first arrest that they aren’t read their miranda rights) English is the lingua franca and the moral and social values imparted by American TV and films are absorbed.

    America become mutli-ethnic and had to lie to itself that this was actually good and it’s strength (Partly due to the places immigrants settled in being the economic and culturally dominant places) therefore everyone else should be too. It won’t tolerate countries actively seeking to defend their indigenous population’s status as being anything less than a moral an abomination. While simultaneously it’s citizens define themselves by their ancestry from the ethnicities of Europe and express admiration of specific peoples and their appearances, cultures or demeanor.

    Songs like this aren’t made for no reason.

  38. @Anon
    I think they could come up with a pull-down resistant statue. Sink a huge steel beam 20 feet into the ground. Put arm on spring loaded hinges. Make dozens of original duplicates of fragile parts like eyeglasses or whips that can screwed out and replaced. Bollards to prevent vehicular approaches

    Or make a couple of duplicate statues.

    Best approach: surveillance to identify perps, prosecute them, and give them hard time.

    The D.C. Martin Luther King statue is pretty clever: bas relief coming out of a huge stone, Egyptian pharaoh style. Abu Simbel lasted millennia against vandals using that one weird trick.

    Replies: @Aardvark

    How about one that explodes when you mess with it or could spray toxic fumes if you try tagging it?
    Then it must be respected for being lethal.

    Oh wait – that would start the same mess all over again…

    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @Aardvark

    The Naked Gun Anti Graffiti Wall
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqIHlnfGKV0

  39. @Dumbo
    Well... Is there any white personality that is not at heart a "racist"? In the future, all statues allowed will be like this:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/world/europe/denmark-statue-black-woman.html

    Europeans, bow down to your new overlords.

    The problem of crazy things happening in the US is that they end up being imitated all over the place. Almost all dumb American ideas eventually wreck havoc everywhere else in the West... I doubt such vandalism would happen in the UK and other countries if not for the US making it "cool" somehow.

    Replies: @Agathoklis, @Altai, @Bragadocious

    Almost all dumb American ideas eventually wreck havoc everywhere else in the West… I doubt such vandalism would happen in the UK and other countries if not for the US making it “cool” somehow

    Wow we certainly are powerful aren’t we! Maybe the Brits wouldn’t have such a problem if they hadn’t egged on the rioters at the outset…the American rioters that is…with their inflammatory coverage. (By the way, the Brits always do this. They did it during the 1992 L.A. riots as well. But there was no Internet then so 99.9% of Americans were unaware.)

    The British play a dangerous game, encouraging violence and mayhem in the country they resent the most while thinking there will be no blowback on their quiet, blessed plot. I’m delighted they’re getting blowback.

    • Disagree: YetAnotherAnon
    • Replies: @Gordo
    @Bragadocious


    The British play a dangerous game, encouraging violence and mayhem in the country they resent the most while thinking there will be no blowback on their quiet, blessed plot. I’m delighted they’re getting blowback.
     
    It might be an idea to distinguish between the British chattering/media class and the British people.

    I'll try and do the same in return.
  40. The Cenotaph is in a sort of glorified traffic island in the middle of a street (I think Whitehall, but London streetnames change every couple of blocks. So the picture must be of a Churchill statue if that’s the only other choice.

  41. Altai [AKA "Altai_2"] says:
    @Dieter Kief
    @Sorel McRae


    Antifa, Hitler’s revenge.
     
    Antifa did spring from the street fights which led to the (intended, on the Antifa side from the beginning) destruction of the parliamentary Weimar Republic. What they did not foresee was their defeat. - And their worldwide resurrection decades after Hitler with Hitler being their by far strongest reference?
    Or scapegoat? Ally? - The world is so complicated these days.

    Replies: @Altai

    The the political wings of the antifa split the left and ultimately gave an opening for the Nazis.

    • Replies: @Dieter Kief
    @Altai


    The political wings of the antifa split the left and ultimately gave an opening for the Nazis.

     

    You’d lose your job if you had one in Germany and said that - and the Secret Service would – oops – I might rather write less paranoid. - Since – who was that, playing right in my ear (Jackson Browne/ Running on Empty) – paranoia will get you!!! – Deep Purple – of course, the soundtrack of my school days – when there were weeks I spent more hours in clubs than at school (I wonder how I made it through then – it was a jungle sometimes, Mannheim/Heidelberg – and I wonder how I kept from going under – – – but I did, obviously…. – thank God – and Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen’s comic Thirty-Year-War novel Simplicissimus — – -and . . . A. – most of all – the prettiest and most down to earth girl ever…I was a lucky lad.
  42. OT, and I really think it is too soon to be claiming an exodus from NYC, but the Guardian (of all places) sees one

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/12/new-york-exodus-suburbs-remote-working-pandemic-protests

    • Replies: @Technite78
    @M_Young

    Yup, this is happening.

  43. @Almost Missouri
    @Agathoklis

    Would that it had, but all the facts on the ground say otherwise. Why are all Western nations, with no native reason to do so, now imitating the US's BLM terrorist riots?

    Even the NYT article Dumbo cited describes how very white Denmark just spent $25m to get a statue of some black woman in a style that “recalls the iconic 1967 photograph of Huey P. Newton, founder of the [terrorist] Black Panther Party” to torment itself with. What could be a more slavish imitation of fashionable American ideology?

    Why Europeans in particular, who should have much better things to do, want to import our worst ideas is a complete mystery to me. The false "coolness" of the modern US is the parsimonious explanation.

    Replies: @stillCARealist, @a reader, @SunBakedSuburb, @Charlotte, @Agathoklis

    yep, the Euros love to hate on America and look down on us, and then go and copy all our horrible cultural trends. I suspect the parts of America that they hate are the Christian gun-owners while looking to the secular weirdos for their inspiration.

    It seems life’s just no fun if you can’t look down on someone who is a lot like yourself… only, you know, not as cool as you. looking down on some homeless guy is a waste of effort.

  44. In all seriousness it’s nauseating to hear an utter failure like DeBlasio proclaim that nothing across America should be named after Robert E. Lee

  45. @kaganovitch
    @Jake

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Can Velvet be far behind?

    Replies: @Known Fact, @Dieter Kief

    Satin and Velvet — Aren’t they those two conservative black chicks?

  46. Another set of images of Churchill in a box. The contrast seems instructive.

  47. @Almost Missouri
    @Agathoklis

    Would that it had, but all the facts on the ground say otherwise. Why are all Western nations, with no native reason to do so, now imitating the US's BLM terrorist riots?

    Even the NYT article Dumbo cited describes how very white Denmark just spent $25m to get a statue of some black woman in a style that “recalls the iconic 1967 photograph of Huey P. Newton, founder of the [terrorist] Black Panther Party” to torment itself with. What could be a more slavish imitation of fashionable American ideology?

    Why Europeans in particular, who should have much better things to do, want to import our worst ideas is a complete mystery to me. The false "coolness" of the modern US is the parsimonious explanation.

    Replies: @stillCARealist, @a reader, @SunBakedSuburb, @Charlotte, @Agathoklis

    white Denmark just spent $25m to get a statue of some black woman

    A M, if you allow me, my understanding is that $25m was the price of the 3 islands sold by Denmark.

    (I could be wrong, of course).

  48. @Charon
    https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/84727119/you-so-did-not-i-cant-even.jpg

    Replies: @BenKenobi

    It’s a reverse-Monolith. It makes the monkeys dumber.

  49. How many of the protesters rushing to daub paint onto Churchill’s statue would identify themselves as English- or even British- if asked? In my experience nonwhite London yoof are pretty forward about telling you they’re “European” (lol) or a member of whichever diarrheaspora they belong to. If anything, they have a reflexive hatred of England and the English beyond the M25.

    …so why give a shit what they think about your history and your icons? Tell all these sneering subcons and grime rappers that the price of being pointedly and reflexively Not English is not having a say in the affairs of Englishmen.

    They can cry Colonizers! until they sweat masala. Let them. It’s not the American case: for the vast, vast majority of these people, they’re in Britain at all because a fairly recent ancestor knew they could acquire more plastic shit in Britain than Bongobongostan. That’s all it is. Larger piles of plastic trash are easier to accrue in the West. You can amass your pile of plastic shit in Dhaka all the same, but you get a bigger one in Croydon. There’s nothing noble or profound about these peoples’ journey. They’re not British, don’t want to be, and never will be. The State should tell them they can put a statue of Stormzy up in front of their KFC and to fuck off.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @More R1b, Less H1B

    Just how the Hell can they straightfacedly claim to call themselves "European"?

    , @Anonymous
    @More R1b, Less H1B

    It's a fair bet that the parents of most of them entered the UK as recently as the 1980s or 1990s - remember a period in which immigration was supposedly 'under control', or even more recently under the Blair/Economist open borders regime.

  50. The Brits future was decided when they implemented Gun Control for the proletariet in 1920.

    Gun Control: Political Fears Trump Crime Control

    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1083528

    No more trusting the UK Armed Citizen!

    • Replies: @Inselaffen
    @Joe Stalin

    Because lack of gun control for the proletariat saved the US... oh wait it's worse over there, and there is absolutely no way out, but you guys still don't understand organisation is more important than having legal peashooters (just look at BLM - plenty organised thanks to corporate favour, and has its way with absolutely no resistance - 'unarmed' UK counter protesters have at least saved some statues and forced the govt to board up others to save them from harm for now and further clashes - have any US statues been saved from the mob yet?). While white 'gun bros' just pose and act tough but never actually do anything useful, and neither can they because they still haven't figured it out.

    Not to mention gun control for the proletariat didn't stop the unarmed drones from shaking down your empire either, Joe... (because they got organised)

    Replies: @Bragadocious, @Joe Stalin

  51. @Znzn
    Well in fairness, you do not see any statues of top opium dealers from the 19th century in China either, or statues of Genghis Khan in China, or statues honoring Curtis Lemay in Tokyo, so fair is fair. And people here would find statues honoring Omar Thornton offensive too I bet.

    Replies: @Neuday, @Mannlicher

    Well in fairness, you do not see any statues of top opium dealers from the 19th century in China either, or statues of Genghis Khan in China, or statues honoring Curtis Lemay in Tokyo, so fair is fair. And people here would find statues honoring Omar Thornton offensive too I bet.

    Yeah, but every podunk burb in America has a Holocaust Memorial.

  52. The narrative of the riots is being tightly managed by a full court press of the media commissars.

    Rioters are angry about gentrification, rising rents, economic inequality and, above all, police brutality. The media keeps repeating the phrase anti-black racism.

    Try inserting some anti-Israel BDS messages and see how fast that would get smacked down. Try attacking a Holocaust memorial to protest Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and see how quickly the ‘woke media’ would howl.

  53. Removing all of the physical evidence of the history of the United States of America prepares the country for its new use – as the home for one billion people by the year 2100. The world’s globalists rejoice! You can’t expect the excess populations from Asia, South America and Africa to come to a country with history, can you?

    Just think of how much easier it will be with all those empty plinths. Just slap on a copy of the Zeroth Amendment poem and you’re in business.

  54. Anonymous[131] • Disclaimer says:

    Actually the hilarious “It Ain’t ‘Alf Hot Mum” – set in the colonial India of the 1940s, featuring the dimwitted antics of a British Army ‘concert party’ has been expunged from BBC broadcasting for at least 20 years now.
    It’s a shame since it would make good stop gap programming on the BBC now that the saturation wall-to-wall soap opera has eased off.
    Apparently, it’s deemed to be ‘racially offensive’.

    Watching the show as a kid back in mid 70s, I always thought that the Rangi Ram character was played by a real Indian, only later did I discover that the actor playing him, Michael Bates, was an Englishman, so convincing was the performance.

    • Replies: @Ray P
    @Anonymous

    More controversial these days would be Mind Your Language (a mixed group of recent immigrants to Britain learn English at night school classes) and especially Love Thy Neighbour about a working-class white English couple and their new black next-door-neighbours.


    Although later regarded as terrible embarrassment, it was extremely popular in its day: indeed, from 1973 to 1975 it reigned as Britain's favourite sitcom. The basic situation is very simple: a West Indian couple, Bill and Barbie Reynolds, move in next door to the white working class Eddie and Joan Booth. The two women get on well; the two men take an immediate dislike to one another and are soon hurling insults like 'choc-ice' and 'snowflake' across the garden fence, to the evident delight of the studio audience.

    ... the white racist, Eddie, is show as backward in almost every way: a Labour voter, a trades union member, a Manchester United supporter, a Daily Mirror reader, he is a relic of a dying working-class world who insists that 'equal rights does not entitle n!g-n0gs to move in next door'. By contrast, the black couple are role-models of self-improvement and upward mobility. Rather implausibly Bill is a devoted admirer of [Conservative prime minister] Edward Heath. In other respects though, he is just another caricatured black man, 'a happy go lucky Jamaican with strong Conservative views' as the publicity for the inevitable spin-off film put it, with a comically childish high-pitched laugh. Meanwhile, his wife, Barbie, seems to be a sensible modern woman with a
    swanky stereo. Deep down, though, she is just another voluptuous black siren in a bikini and hot pants, who spends much of her time being ogled by white men. And throughout the series runs a thread of aggressive racial hostility that to modern eyes seems deeply distasteful. In one episode 'Operation Aggro', Eddie organizes a petition to 'Keep Maple Terrace White', and throws dog muck over the fence, narrowly missing his black neighbour. In others, he denounces Bill to his face as a 'coon', a 'bloody n!g-n0g', 'Sambo', and 'King Kong', while for good measure he dismisses other immigrant groups as 'Fu Manchu', 'Gunga Din', and 'Ali Baba'. Yet Bill is hardly a model of tolerance. Quick to dismiss Eddie as a 'honky', a 'snowflake', and as a 'racialist poof', he admits to his wife that he would not want black neighbours himself because of their impact on house prices.

    Since Love Thy Neighbour attracted large audiences for eight series over four years, millions of people presumably found it hilarious. What now seems extraordinary, though, is that many critics complained that it was too tame and inoffensive. ... As time went on and the program lost any pretence of having a satirical edge, however, the criticism became sharper. Black viewers unsurprisingly found the program, and especially its implied moral equivalence between the racist and his victim deeply disturbing: in July of 1975, a spokeswoman for the Race Relations Board told the New Society [left-wing political magazine] that she had not 'met a black person who isn't offended to hell by it.' And as the critic Chris Dunkley pointed out in September of 1972 it was 'a little frightening that the loudest laugh [in one episode] was elicited by a joke about a Negro's house-warming party: the 'White Honky' warned that his house would get really warm when somebody burned it down.'

    -- Dominic Sandbrook, State of Emergency
     

    Replies: @vhrm, @Jonathan Mason

  55. @Jake
    @RichardTaylor

    That is it. What Britain now suffers comes inevitably from the history of the British Empire. Churchill is central to getting us all here.

    The sun never set on the British Empire. The sun never sets on the American Empire, best known as The Anglo-Zionist Empire, Part 2. WASP culture was made global, THE ruling culture of the globe to which all those fearing power and all those envying power bowed and to which they began assimilating. The entire world has been Anglicized in the sense that world Elites, with a couple of obvious exceptions, operate in the world very much as if they are the new Anglo-Saxon Puritan regicides (they must war every second against Christ the King and any possibility of Christendom) and all 'other' whites are Irish Catholics, who either are to be slaughtered or rounded up and quarantined in dire poverty.

    For those of you who prefer to see in the eyes of the Jewish half of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, we are all Palestinians.

    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war. And that means that WASP culture, like a giant con game of incalculable violence, eventually will implode, leaving chaos. Before the implosion, the Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire will use their non-white minions and anti-Christ minions to terrorize non-WASP whites they rule on the grandest scale yet, to make certain that when the damn breaks, there is no possibility whatsoever that Christendom can be revived anywhere in the Anglosphere or Western Europe.

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Replies: @RichardTaylor, @kaganovitch, @syonredux, @SunBakedSuburb, @GoRedWings!, @obvious, @Expletive Deleted

    Try a little less caffeine…..

  56. The Churchill box needs a horizontal slit opening on each of its sides so the old boy can point his machine gun at the protestors.

    On Fawlty Towers: the original series first few episodes were not well-received in nineteen seventy-five by the t.v. critics who saw it as an “… unadventurous hotel farce: the Evening Standard called it ‘thin and obvious’, the [BBC magazine] Listener thought it ‘pretty hollow’, and the [Daily] Mirror’s verdict, infamously, was ‘Long John Short on Jokes’.” (Dominic Sandbrook, State of Emergency). It was four years before the second series of episodes appeared.

    • Replies: @SunBakedSuburb
    @Ray P

    "On Fawlty Towers"

    John Cleese makes the transition from the Surrealism of Python to the standard sitcom and nails it. Fawlty Towers is still the funniest TV comedy around.

  57. @Jake
    @RichardTaylor

    That is it. What Britain now suffers comes inevitably from the history of the British Empire. Churchill is central to getting us all here.

    The sun never set on the British Empire. The sun never sets on the American Empire, best known as The Anglo-Zionist Empire, Part 2. WASP culture was made global, THE ruling culture of the globe to which all those fearing power and all those envying power bowed and to which they began assimilating. The entire world has been Anglicized in the sense that world Elites, with a couple of obvious exceptions, operate in the world very much as if they are the new Anglo-Saxon Puritan regicides (they must war every second against Christ the King and any possibility of Christendom) and all 'other' whites are Irish Catholics, who either are to be slaughtered or rounded up and quarantined in dire poverty.

    For those of you who prefer to see in the eyes of the Jewish half of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, we are all Palestinians.

    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war. And that means that WASP culture, like a giant con game of incalculable violence, eventually will implode, leaving chaos. Before the implosion, the Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire will use their non-white minions and anti-Christ minions to terrorize non-WASP whites they rule on the grandest scale yet, to make certain that when the damn breaks, there is no possibility whatsoever that Christendom can be revived anywhere in the Anglosphere or Western Europe.

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Replies: @RichardTaylor, @kaganovitch, @syonredux, @SunBakedSuburb, @GoRedWings!, @obvious, @Expletive Deleted

    “the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war”

    Anything Germanic pagan would be a good weapon in the war against Woke.

    • Replies: @S. Anonyia
    @SunBakedSuburb

    Not necessarily. Viking apologism in popular culture (I say this as someone with substantial Scandinavian ancestry, by the way) is more prevalent than ever- they are never portrayed as the genuinely menacing baddies they actually were in video games or film, and yet wokism is all over the place.

  58. @Almost Missouri
    @Agathoklis

    Would that it had, but all the facts on the ground say otherwise. Why are all Western nations, with no native reason to do so, now imitating the US's BLM terrorist riots?

    Even the NYT article Dumbo cited describes how very white Denmark just spent $25m to get a statue of some black woman in a style that “recalls the iconic 1967 photograph of Huey P. Newton, founder of the [terrorist] Black Panther Party” to torment itself with. What could be a more slavish imitation of fashionable American ideology?

    Why Europeans in particular, who should have much better things to do, want to import our worst ideas is a complete mystery to me. The false "coolness" of the modern US is the parsimonious explanation.

    Replies: @stillCARealist, @a reader, @SunBakedSuburb, @Charlotte, @Agathoklis

    “Why”

    Woke has infected every Western political system. Now the Temple of the Sacred Black Body is built in every land systemic whitey calls home. Thanks Christians and corporate sports fans. And Dog-Moms.

  59. Anonymous[131] • Disclaimer says:
    @More R1b, Less H1B
    How many of the protesters rushing to daub paint onto Churchill's statue would identify themselves as English- or even British- if asked? In my experience nonwhite London yoof are pretty forward about telling you they're "European" (lol) or a member of whichever diarrheaspora they belong to. If anything, they have a reflexive hatred of England and the English beyond the M25.

    ...so why give a shit what they think about your history and your icons? Tell all these sneering subcons and grime rappers that the price of being pointedly and reflexively Not English is not having a say in the affairs of Englishmen.

    They can cry Colonizers! until they sweat masala. Let them. It's not the American case: for the vast, vast majority of these people, they're in Britain at all because a fairly recent ancestor knew they could acquire more plastic shit in Britain than Bongobongostan. That's all it is. Larger piles of plastic trash are easier to accrue in the West. You can amass your pile of plastic shit in Dhaka all the same, but you get a bigger one in Croydon. There's nothing noble or profound about these peoples' journey. They're not British, don't want to be, and never will be. The State should tell them they can put a statue of Stormzy up in front of their KFC and to fuck off.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Anonymous

    Just how the Hell can they straightfacedly claim to call themselves “European”?

    • Agree: Gordo
  60. Anonymous[199] • Disclaimer says:

    I’m all for Chaz.

    Chaz up all the blue cities.

    • Replies: @black sea
    @Anonymous

    I think they should've called it Seattle People's Autonomous Zone.

  61. Anonymous[131] • Disclaimer says:
    @More R1b, Less H1B
    How many of the protesters rushing to daub paint onto Churchill's statue would identify themselves as English- or even British- if asked? In my experience nonwhite London yoof are pretty forward about telling you they're "European" (lol) or a member of whichever diarrheaspora they belong to. If anything, they have a reflexive hatred of England and the English beyond the M25.

    ...so why give a shit what they think about your history and your icons? Tell all these sneering subcons and grime rappers that the price of being pointedly and reflexively Not English is not having a say in the affairs of Englishmen.

    They can cry Colonizers! until they sweat masala. Let them. It's not the American case: for the vast, vast majority of these people, they're in Britain at all because a fairly recent ancestor knew they could acquire more plastic shit in Britain than Bongobongostan. That's all it is. Larger piles of plastic trash are easier to accrue in the West. You can amass your pile of plastic shit in Dhaka all the same, but you get a bigger one in Croydon. There's nothing noble or profound about these peoples' journey. They're not British, don't want to be, and never will be. The State should tell them they can put a statue of Stormzy up in front of their KFC and to fuck off.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Anonymous

    It’s a fair bet that the parents of most of them entered the UK as recently as the 1980s or 1990s – remember a period in which immigration was supposedly ‘under control’, or even more recently under the Blair/Economist open borders regime.

  62. @Ray P
    The Churchill box needs a horizontal slit opening on each of its sides so the old boy can point his machine gun at the protestors.

    On Fawlty Towers: the original series first few episodes were not well-received in nineteen seventy-five by the t.v. critics who saw it as an "... unadventurous hotel farce: the Evening Standard called it 'thin and obvious', the [BBC magazine] Listener thought it 'pretty hollow', and the [Daily] Mirror's verdict, infamously, was 'Long John Short on Jokes'." (Dominic Sandbrook, State of Emergency). It was four years before the second series of episodes appeared.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb

    “On Fawlty Towers”

    John Cleese makes the transition from the Surrealism of Python to the standard sitcom and nails it. Fawlty Towers is still the funniest TV comedy around.

  63. It’s supremely ironic that Churchill was named ‘greatest Briton’ in a public poll (obviously for his role in ‘winning’ the war, which is his sole ‘achievement’) while Mosely was named ‘worst Briton’ by a history mag around the same time (early 2000ish).

    Given that Mosely would plainly have better achieved what Churchill really wanted (preserved the Empire – a little longer if nothing else – and kept his precious ‘Anglos’ in charge in their own country at the very least).

    Meanwhile in 2020 the ‘new Britons’ are threatening to smash Churchill’s statue in the capital, because they hate him for the same reason the ‘old Britons’ thought Mosely was the worst (because he said stuff thass rayciss, mang). That’s where the ‘greatest achievement’ has lead us.

    Meanwhile any surviving clusters of English that may exist here late into the next century, will do so necessarily because they and their forbearers took an outlook more similar to Mosely.
    Again, the irony is crushing (I don’t know if Churchill’s statue is made of iron though).

  64. @Anonymous
    I'm all for Chaz.

    Chaz up all the blue cities.

    Replies: @black sea

    I think they should’ve called it Seattle People’s Autonomous Zone.

  65. @Bragadocious
    @Dumbo


    Almost all dumb American ideas eventually wreck havoc everywhere else in the West… I doubt such vandalism would happen in the UK and other countries if not for the US making it “cool” somehow

     

    Wow we certainly are powerful aren't we! Maybe the Brits wouldn't have such a problem if they hadn't egged on the rioters at the outset...the American rioters that is...with their inflammatory coverage. (By the way, the Brits always do this. They did it during the 1992 L.A. riots as well. But there was no Internet then so 99.9% of Americans were unaware.)

    The British play a dangerous game, encouraging violence and mayhem in the country they resent the most while thinking there will be no blowback on their quiet, blessed plot. I'm delighted they're getting blowback.

    Replies: @Gordo

    The British play a dangerous game, encouraging violence and mayhem in the country they resent the most while thinking there will be no blowback on their quiet, blessed plot. I’m delighted they’re getting blowback.

    It might be an idea to distinguish between the British chattering/media class and the British people.

    I’ll try and do the same in return.

    • Agree: YetAnotherAnon
  66. @kaganovitch
    @Jake

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Can Velvet be far behind?

    Replies: @Known Fact, @Dieter Kief

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Can Velvet be far behind?

    Blue Velvet, if you please.

  67. @Anonymous
    Actually the hilarious "It Ain't 'Alf Hot Mum" - set in the colonial India of the 1940s, featuring the dimwitted antics of a British Army 'concert party' has been expunged from BBC broadcasting for at least 20 years now.
    It's a shame since it would make good stop gap programming on the BBC now that the saturation wall-to-wall soap opera has eased off.
    Apparently, it's deemed to be 'racially offensive'.

    Watching the show as a kid back in mid 70s, I always thought that the Rangi Ram character was played by a real Indian, only later did I discover that the actor playing him, Michael Bates, was an Englishman, so convincing was the performance.

    Replies: @Ray P

    More controversial these days would be Mind Your Language (a mixed group of recent immigrants to Britain learn English at night school classes) and especially Love Thy Neighbour about a working-class white English couple and their new black next-door-neighbours.

    Although later regarded as terrible embarrassment, it was extremely popular in its day: indeed, from 1973 to 1975 it reigned as Britain’s favourite sitcom. The basic situation is very simple: a West Indian couple, Bill and Barbie Reynolds, move in next door to the white working class Eddie and Joan Booth. The two women get on well; the two men take an immediate dislike to one another and are soon hurling insults like ‘choc-ice’ and ‘snowflake’ across the garden fence, to the evident delight of the studio audience.

    … the white racist, Eddie, is show as backward in almost every way: a Labour voter, a trades union member, a Manchester United supporter, a Daily Mirror reader, he is a relic of a dying working-class world who insists that ‘equal rights does not entitle n!g-n0gs to move in next door’. By contrast, the black couple are role-models of self-improvement and upward mobility. Rather implausibly Bill is a devoted admirer of [Conservative prime minister] Edward Heath. In other respects though, he is just another caricatured black man, ‘a happy go lucky Jamaican with strong Conservative views’ as the publicity for the inevitable spin-off film put it, with a comically childish high-pitched laugh. Meanwhile, his wife, Barbie, seems to be a sensible modern woman with a
    swanky stereo. Deep down, though, she is just another voluptuous black siren in a bikini and hot pants, who spends much of her time being ogled by white men. And throughout the series runs a thread of aggressive racial hostility that to modern eyes seems deeply distasteful. In one episode ‘Operation Aggro’, Eddie organizes a petition to ‘Keep Maple Terrace White’, and throws dog muck over the fence, narrowly missing his black neighbour. In others, he denounces Bill to his face as a ‘coon’, a ‘bloody n!g-n0g’, ‘Sambo’, and ‘King Kong’, while for good measure he dismisses other immigrant groups as ‘Fu Manchu’, ‘Gunga Din’, and ‘Ali Baba’. Yet Bill is hardly a model of tolerance. Quick to dismiss Eddie as a ‘honky’, a ‘snowflake’, and as a ‘racialist poof’, he admits to his wife that he would not want black neighbours himself because of their impact on house prices.

    Since Love Thy Neighbour attracted large audiences for eight series over four years, millions of people presumably found it hilarious. What now seems extraordinary, though, is that many critics complained that it was too tame and inoffensive. … As time went on and the program lost any pretence of having a satirical edge, however, the criticism became sharper. Black viewers unsurprisingly found the program, and especially its implied moral equivalence between the racist and his victim deeply disturbing: in July of 1975, a spokeswoman for the Race Relations Board told the New Society [left-wing political magazine] that she had not ‘met a black person who isn’t offended to hell by it.’ And as the critic Chris Dunkley pointed out in September of 1972 it was ‘a little frightening that the loudest laugh [in one episode] was elicited by a joke about a Negro’s house-warming party: the ‘White Honky’ warned that his house would get really warm when somebody burned it down.’

    — Dominic Sandbrook, State of Emergency

    • Replies: @vhrm
    @Ray P

    It's fiction, of course, but with all that overt racism they still both went on with their lives.

    This is another lie of BLM/ modern race racket: even overt racism is not the end of the freakin' world (not that there's much of that on the part of whites nowadays)

    Sure it can grind people down and it's not GOOD, but it doesn't immediately turn Collin Powell into George Floyd because someone called him the n-word ten times.

    This is something that Christianity (and traditional American liberalism) gets right imo: you can disagree with people and even think they're evil in some ways, but that doesn't mean you don't respect then as humans and citizens and sometimes have them over for a barbecue if you want.

    , @Jonathan Mason
    @Ray P

    Love Thy Neighbour was written by toffs as a propaganda piece aimed at working class whites to encourage them to live peaceably with their new black neighbors.

    The concept is essentially that the two races are like competing soccer teams. You may symbolically hate the rival team and its supporters and show solidarity with your own group, but you should love the sport over mere tribal loyalties, and the best players of different teams may combine in a national team whose fans transcend local loyalties.

    In the case of the two families in the sit-com, while they may banter about racial rivalries, both share a concern about keeping up property values in their street and not lowering the tone of the neighborhood, though this may manifest in different ways.

    It is pretty shocking to watch today, but educative if you have never seen it. Skip to 19:30 for the best bit.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sOLgadNVoc&t=693s

    Fawlty Towers is really about the decline of post-empire post-war Britain. Men like Fawlty, who might have held administrative positions overseas in the days of empire are now reduced to running small businesses and providing services to a clientele whom they secretly, or not-so-secretly in Basil Fawlty's case, despise.

    Even to this day, even though chain hotels are much more common, you can find some UK bed-and-breakfast reviews on Trip Advisor where guests report the eccentric behavior of fossilized elderly proprietors.

    The joke in Fawlty Towers is that the Cleese characters actually acts out the passive-aggressive fantasies that most people would only experience as a passing thought or fantasy, and quickly dismiss. No one in their right mind would actually take a branch of a tree and administer a thrashing to a car with mechanical problems caused by poor maintenance.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78b67l_yxUc

    The Major, a permanent resident of Fawlty Towers, is an even older fossil of the ancien regime, but the guests include a number of symbolic post-war types who are difficult for Fawlty to accept like respectable Germans, the impoverished aristocrat (who turns out to be a con man), the police detective with long hair and a leather jacket, the pop star type with hairy chest and gold neck chain, the incompetent Irish builder, and so on.

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous

  68. @Almost Missouri
    @Agathoklis

    Would that it had, but all the facts on the ground say otherwise. Why are all Western nations, with no native reason to do so, now imitating the US's BLM terrorist riots?

    Even the NYT article Dumbo cited describes how very white Denmark just spent $25m to get a statue of some black woman in a style that “recalls the iconic 1967 photograph of Huey P. Newton, founder of the [terrorist] Black Panther Party” to torment itself with. What could be a more slavish imitation of fashionable American ideology?

    Why Europeans in particular, who should have much better things to do, want to import our worst ideas is a complete mystery to me. The false "coolness" of the modern US is the parsimonious explanation.

    Replies: @stillCARealist, @a reader, @SunBakedSuburb, @Charlotte, @Agathoklis

    Twenty some years ago, visiting Norway, I thought to myself, “Norwegians are incredibly fortunate to have a homogeneous population. No black people to speak of, no endless squabbling over racist this and affirmative action that, no permanent divisions within society . . . .” There was no doubt in my mind that homogeneity had a lot to do with the apparent uniformly high standard of living, tidy neighborhoods, etc. The irony with which I remember that can’t be overstated.

  69. @Altai
    @Dieter Kief

    The the political wings of the antifa split the left and ultimately gave an opening for the Nazis.

    Replies: @Dieter Kief

    The political wings of the antifa split the left and ultimately gave an opening for the Nazis.

    You’d lose your job if you had one in Germany and said that – and the Secret Service would – oops – I might rather write less paranoid. – Since – who was that, playing right in my ear (Jackson Browne/ Running on Empty) – paranoia will get you!!! – Deep Purple – of course, the soundtrack of my school days – when there were weeks I spent more hours in clubs than at school (I wonder how I made it through then – it was a jungle sometimes, Mannheim/Heidelberg – and I wonder how I kept from going under – – – but I did, obviously…. – thank God – and Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen’s comic Thirty-Year-War novel Simplicissimus — – -and . . . A. – most of all – the prettiest and most down to earth girl ever…I was a lucky lad.

  70. @Joe Stalin
    The Brits future was decided when they implemented Gun Control for the proletariet in 1920.

    Gun Control: Political Fears Trump Crime Control

    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1083528
     
    No more trusting the UK Armed Citizen!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMd9WIEaWxM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB8Fuzt_dIg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBFDYQ49doM

    Replies: @Inselaffen

    Because lack of gun control for the proletariat saved the US… oh wait it’s worse over there, and there is absolutely no way out, but you guys still don’t understand organisation is more important than having legal peashooters (just look at BLM – plenty organised thanks to corporate favour, and has its way with absolutely no resistance – ‘unarmed’ UK counter protesters have at least saved some statues and forced the govt to board up others to save them from harm for now and further clashes – have any US statues been saved from the mob yet?). While white ‘gun bros’ just pose and act tough but never actually do anything useful, and neither can they because they still haven’t figured it out.

    Not to mention gun control for the proletariat didn’t stop the unarmed drones from shaking down your empire either, Joe… (because they got organised)

    • Replies: @Bragadocious
    @Inselaffen


    While white ‘gun bros’ just pose and act tough but never actually do anything useful

     

    Right, because the "gun bros" should assemble in front of the General Lee statue and create a massive confrontation that would accomplish nothing, except them going to prison.

    The whole point of gun ownership is to keep them in times of serious upheaval when your very home is under threat, not to save a statue that you really, fundamentally, don't give a shit about.

    I think we've pinpointed another English concern troll in our midst. They seem to be proliferating.
    , @Joe Stalin
    @Inselaffen

    Admit it; you can't stand it that Americans have militarily useful weapons and you gave up yours because you were talked in to it. That's why you used the phrase "legal peashooters"... Brits can make some bow & arrows and crossbows and so your government allows those.

    That's why the standard response for foreigners about resistance is: "We can resist by organization! We will form mobs! Our leadership can mass the people together and resist the oppression! Why can't those stupid Yankees know that the drones and spies mean that resistance is IMPOSSIBLE!"

    So go ahead and form a mob, my unarmed British 'bros'.

  71. Anonymous[413] • Disclaimer says:

    Fawlty Towers had the short Spaniard waiter Manuel who was the butt of a lot of the jokes and bits on the show. Even though he’s a European Spaniard, hard to see it airing today when it would be interpreted as anti-Hispanic or anti-Latino. There are people today who complain that it was racist.

    • Replies: @degsy
    @Anonymous

    IIRC when it was broadcast dubbed in Spain they made him Italian..

    , @Ray P
    @Anonymous

    Fawlty Towers was repeated on one of the UK's old t.v. show channels a couple of years ago, although, like a lot of shows that are more than 30-45 years old, it came with warnings about out-dated attitudes and discriminatory language. (When I watch one of these, it alerts me to be on the look-out for whatever has potential of causing offense to a modern leftist. I'm often struggling to find the un-pc content though).

  72. @Hrw-500
    I guess it's time to vandalize Karl Marx's tomb again? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/05/karl-marx-london-grave-vandalised-suspected-hammer-attack-highgate-cemetery

    What's good for the goose, is good for the gander. Let's see if there some old writings of Lenin and Trotsky where they dropped the "n-word".

    Replies: @degsy

    The first volume of “Capital” has multiple references to “kaffirs” ie arguably a worse “slur” than the dreaded en-word..

    • Agree: Hrw-500
  73. Anonymous[207] • Disclaimer says:

    Pop Culture is the culture. Look how people prefer Wakanda over Africa.

    Replace all historical statues with those of Pikachu, Darth Vader, Superman, Wonder Woman, Tony Montana, Daffy Duck, Andy Panda, Yoda, etc.

    Btw, the boardup looks like a refrigerator. Churchill liked to eat, so he’s happy.

  74. Note the Mail article’s casual reference to BLM ‘activists’ versus far-right ‘thugs’. You’d almost think it was right-wing skinheads who’d spent the past couple of weeks rioting, looting, beating up police officers and and trying to pull down statues.

  75. @Dieter Kief
    @Not Only Wrathful

    Eventually, this equality-craze will equal out. People will look back amused: How come, in those days, everybody had to think that everybody is equal? - In retrospect, this way of thinking will look too simple to have been able to ever catch on, really. Then some historians will stand and declare firmly: That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say.

    PS
    Confident, informal, optimistic - that's what Grammarly says about my post. Fine.

    Replies: @Prester John, @vhrm

    That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say.

    Not like day and night, those actually exist…
    It’ll be like the static Earth at the center of the universe model with every more complex and unlikely explanations for how racism causes the observed phenomena.

    But even those models actually worked… so they’ll probably look back on it more like we look at astrology or
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism

    • Replies: @Dieter Kief
    @vhrm

    "That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say."


    Not like day and night, those actually exist…
     
    Might not have been clear enough - it pointed out a wrong comparison: Equality as a universal concept - like day and night, say, is wrong, because equality just isn't universal - people - differ - - widely - - - that's what is thrown under the radar station, so to speak - Oooops! - I did it again - - - - I like the risk, which comes along with humorous communication, actually - so: Thanks for your reply, vhrm - especially for the link to - - - -Humorism! - that one is - - - spot on!

    Replies: @vhrm

    , @Dieter Kief
    @vhrm

    "That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say."


    Not like day and night, those actually exist…
     
    Eh - that's why I chose to compare them to this equality-concept: This does actually not exist - not like day and night exist- simple and throughout, that is...

    I like the risk, that goes along with humorous ways of communicating, so - - - thanks for your reply, vhrm - - - - and especially for your link to - - - - humorism - that is spot on!
  76. @M_Young
    OT, and I really think it is too soon to be claiming an exodus from NYC, but the Guardian (of all places) sees one

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/12/new-york-exodus-suburbs-remote-working-pandemic-protests

    Replies: @Technite78

    Yup, this is happening.

  77. @Anonymous
    Fawlty Towers had the short Spaniard waiter Manuel who was the butt of a lot of the jokes and bits on the show. Even though he's a European Spaniard, hard to see it airing today when it would be interpreted as anti-Hispanic or anti-Latino. There are people today who complain that it was racist.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwYPCFfbhZM

    Replies: @degsy, @Ray P

    IIRC when it was broadcast dubbed in Spain they made him Italian..

  78. @vhrm
    @Dieter Kief


    That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say.
     
    Not like day and night, those actually exist...
    It'll be like the static Earth at the center of the universe model with every more complex and unlikely explanations for how racism causes the observed phenomena.

    But even those models actually worked... so they'll probably look back on it more like we look at astrology or
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism

    Replies: @Dieter Kief, @Dieter Kief

    “That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say.”

    Not like day and night, those actually exist…

    Might not have been clear enough – it pointed out a wrong comparison: Equality as a universal concept – like day and night, say, is wrong, because equality just isn’t universal – people – differ – – widely – – – that’s what is thrown under the radar station, so to speak – Oooops! – I did it again – – – – I like the risk, which comes along with humorous communication, actually – so: Thanks for your reply, vhrm – especially for the link to – – – -Humorism! – that one is – – – spot on!

    • Replies: @vhrm
    @Dieter Kief

    oh yeah, i misunderstood the grammar on that one. sorry.

  79. @vhrm
    @Dieter Kief


    That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say.
     
    Not like day and night, those actually exist...
    It'll be like the static Earth at the center of the universe model with every more complex and unlikely explanations for how racism causes the observed phenomena.

    But even those models actually worked... so they'll probably look back on it more like we look at astrology or
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism

    Replies: @Dieter Kief, @Dieter Kief

    “That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say.”

    Not like day and night, those actually exist…

    Eh – that’s why I chose to compare them to this equality-concept: This does actually not exist – not like day and night exist- simple and throughout, that is…

    I like the risk, that goes along with humorous ways of communicating, so – – – thanks for your reply, vhrm – – – – and especially for your link to – – – – humorism – that is spot on!

  80. @peterike

    perhaps the greatest high point of the sitcom art, the “Don’t Mention the War” episode of John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers
     
    The rat episode was better.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Ganderson

    Aren’t there Germans in the rat episode too? IIRC the Major goes to shoot the rat, and Basil thinks he’s after the German guests.

    “But they’re vermin, Fawlty!”

    “Er, quite – but forgive and forget, eh, Major?”

    • Replies: @Ganderson
    @YetAnotherAnon

    “ or at least pretend we do...”

    The people behind this have no sense of humor, so one can not expect them to pick up on the subtleties of the Major and Fawlty. In fact I’d argue it wasn’t even all that subtle. Lefties like the Pythons, David Nobbs, the original SNLers and Ben Elton had senses of humor.

    What a depressing, humorless world we live in.

  81. @Inselaffen
    @Joe Stalin

    Because lack of gun control for the proletariat saved the US... oh wait it's worse over there, and there is absolutely no way out, but you guys still don't understand organisation is more important than having legal peashooters (just look at BLM - plenty organised thanks to corporate favour, and has its way with absolutely no resistance - 'unarmed' UK counter protesters have at least saved some statues and forced the govt to board up others to save them from harm for now and further clashes - have any US statues been saved from the mob yet?). While white 'gun bros' just pose and act tough but never actually do anything useful, and neither can they because they still haven't figured it out.

    Not to mention gun control for the proletariat didn't stop the unarmed drones from shaking down your empire either, Joe... (because they got organised)

    Replies: @Bragadocious, @Joe Stalin

    While white ‘gun bros’ just pose and act tough but never actually do anything useful

    Right, because the “gun bros” should assemble in front of the General Lee statue and create a massive confrontation that would accomplish nothing, except them going to prison.

    The whole point of gun ownership is to keep them in times of serious upheaval when your very home is under threat, not to save a statue that you really, fundamentally, don’t give a shit about.

    I think we’ve pinpointed another English concern troll in our midst. They seem to be proliferating.

  82. Satire and comedy are lost on fanatics.

    They have lost all sense, including their sense of humor.

  83. @kihowi

    The early part of the episode is less funny than most Fawlty Towers episodes
     
    I'm going to take issue with this. The first part is superior to the second. It has the priceless moment of the major talking to the moose head, and then there's the absolutely awful overacting of the Germans.

    What people don't get, or don't want to get about the bit where the major talks about niggers, is that it's a satire that's on the side of people who got it banned. The whole joke of that interaction is that the major and Fawlty are throwing around racial epithets and talking about how irrational women are, while they can barely have a conversation because of how loopy they are. It's a classic "this bigot is worse than the people he looks down on" bit.

    Replies: @Rob (London)

    I mostly agree – the Major isn’t “a bigot” per se, just an old dodderer who absorbed the norms of his day. He’s generally portrayed as a decent old chap.

    The scene in question is more surreal than anything – two slightly (or more than slightly) unhinged characters, with no real mutual understanding, having a nonsensical dialogue. It could almost be a Python sketch actually.

    Anyway, the good news is that the BBC appears to be restoring the episode to its streaming platform, albeit with a pompous “context” warning message.

    It occurs to me than an episode of the original British “The Office” (2001) contains an episode with (I think) two uses of the N-word. I remember watching it at the time and it felt naughty but not scandalous, and I’m pretty certain there were no complaints. Unimaginable now.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Rob (London)


    Anyway, the good news is that the BBC appears to be restoring the episode to its streaming platform, albeit with a pompous “context” warning message.
     
    I must ask: was this sudden reversal due to an outcry from the public? Or did saner heads (somehow) prevail at the BBC itself?

    (If the latter, you can colour me impressed. I'd scarcely give them credit for having any sense left.)

    Years ago, the noises from Radio 1 rather alarmingly began matching the sort of noises I only imagined emanating from the stereo speakers of a car driven by a peaceful protester in an American inner city. Once the BBC made it clear that multicultualism was the new byword, I realised they had nothing more to offer in the way of worthwhile entertainment, only dross.

    Sadly, the years since have only served to confirm this.

    It is ironic that they chose to pick on that particular programme, as their days of turning out timeless comedies like Fawlty Towers that go over well on both sides of the Atlantic are long past.
  84. @Ray P
    @Anonymous

    More controversial these days would be Mind Your Language (a mixed group of recent immigrants to Britain learn English at night school classes) and especially Love Thy Neighbour about a working-class white English couple and their new black next-door-neighbours.


    Although later regarded as terrible embarrassment, it was extremely popular in its day: indeed, from 1973 to 1975 it reigned as Britain's favourite sitcom. The basic situation is very simple: a West Indian couple, Bill and Barbie Reynolds, move in next door to the white working class Eddie and Joan Booth. The two women get on well; the two men take an immediate dislike to one another and are soon hurling insults like 'choc-ice' and 'snowflake' across the garden fence, to the evident delight of the studio audience.

    ... the white racist, Eddie, is show as backward in almost every way: a Labour voter, a trades union member, a Manchester United supporter, a Daily Mirror reader, he is a relic of a dying working-class world who insists that 'equal rights does not entitle n!g-n0gs to move in next door'. By contrast, the black couple are role-models of self-improvement and upward mobility. Rather implausibly Bill is a devoted admirer of [Conservative prime minister] Edward Heath. In other respects though, he is just another caricatured black man, 'a happy go lucky Jamaican with strong Conservative views' as the publicity for the inevitable spin-off film put it, with a comically childish high-pitched laugh. Meanwhile, his wife, Barbie, seems to be a sensible modern woman with a
    swanky stereo. Deep down, though, she is just another voluptuous black siren in a bikini and hot pants, who spends much of her time being ogled by white men. And throughout the series runs a thread of aggressive racial hostility that to modern eyes seems deeply distasteful. In one episode 'Operation Aggro', Eddie organizes a petition to 'Keep Maple Terrace White', and throws dog muck over the fence, narrowly missing his black neighbour. In others, he denounces Bill to his face as a 'coon', a 'bloody n!g-n0g', 'Sambo', and 'King Kong', while for good measure he dismisses other immigrant groups as 'Fu Manchu', 'Gunga Din', and 'Ali Baba'. Yet Bill is hardly a model of tolerance. Quick to dismiss Eddie as a 'honky', a 'snowflake', and as a 'racialist poof', he admits to his wife that he would not want black neighbours himself because of their impact on house prices.

    Since Love Thy Neighbour attracted large audiences for eight series over four years, millions of people presumably found it hilarious. What now seems extraordinary, though, is that many critics complained that it was too tame and inoffensive. ... As time went on and the program lost any pretence of having a satirical edge, however, the criticism became sharper. Black viewers unsurprisingly found the program, and especially its implied moral equivalence between the racist and his victim deeply disturbing: in July of 1975, a spokeswoman for the Race Relations Board told the New Society [left-wing political magazine] that she had not 'met a black person who isn't offended to hell by it.' And as the critic Chris Dunkley pointed out in September of 1972 it was 'a little frightening that the loudest laugh [in one episode] was elicited by a joke about a Negro's house-warming party: the 'White Honky' warned that his house would get really warm when somebody burned it down.'

    -- Dominic Sandbrook, State of Emergency
     

    Replies: @vhrm, @Jonathan Mason

    It’s fiction, of course, but with all that overt racism they still both went on with their lives.

    This is another lie of BLM/ modern race racket: even overt racism is not the end of the freakin’ world (not that there’s much of that on the part of whites nowadays)

    Sure it can grind people down and it’s not GOOD, but it doesn’t immediately turn Collin Powell into George Floyd because someone called him the n-word ten times.

    This is something that Christianity (and traditional American liberalism) gets right imo: you can disagree with people and even think they’re evil in some ways, but that doesn’t mean you don’t respect then as humans and citizens and sometimes have them over for a barbecue if you want.

  85. @Dieter Kief
    @vhrm

    "That oh yeh, it was the case, equality was once looked upon as a universal natural concept, like day and night, say."


    Not like day and night, those actually exist…
     
    Might not have been clear enough - it pointed out a wrong comparison: Equality as a universal concept - like day and night, say, is wrong, because equality just isn't universal - people - differ - - widely - - - that's what is thrown under the radar station, so to speak - Oooops! - I did it again - - - - I like the risk, which comes along with humorous communication, actually - so: Thanks for your reply, vhrm - especially for the link to - - - -Humorism! - that one is - - - spot on!

    Replies: @vhrm

    oh yeah, i misunderstood the grammar on that one. sorry.

  86. @Almost Missouri
    @Agathoklis

    Would that it had, but all the facts on the ground say otherwise. Why are all Western nations, with no native reason to do so, now imitating the US's BLM terrorist riots?

    Even the NYT article Dumbo cited describes how very white Denmark just spent $25m to get a statue of some black woman in a style that “recalls the iconic 1967 photograph of Huey P. Newton, founder of the [terrorist] Black Panther Party” to torment itself with. What could be a more slavish imitation of fashionable American ideology?

    Why Europeans in particular, who should have much better things to do, want to import our worst ideas is a complete mystery to me. The false "coolness" of the modern US is the parsimonious explanation.

    Replies: @stillCARealist, @a reader, @SunBakedSuburb, @Charlotte, @Agathoklis

    Not ALL western nations imitated the BLM protests. In Eastern Europe and South-Eastern Europe; and particularly, the Balkans and Russia there were very few protests. Also, I would not call the BLM Euro protesters cool but an assortment of riff raff losers.

    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @Agathoklis

    Agree on both counts. But it is not I who thinks American BLM crap is "cool". It is the Euros losers (West side).

  87. @Inselaffen
    @Joe Stalin

    Because lack of gun control for the proletariat saved the US... oh wait it's worse over there, and there is absolutely no way out, but you guys still don't understand organisation is more important than having legal peashooters (just look at BLM - plenty organised thanks to corporate favour, and has its way with absolutely no resistance - 'unarmed' UK counter protesters have at least saved some statues and forced the govt to board up others to save them from harm for now and further clashes - have any US statues been saved from the mob yet?). While white 'gun bros' just pose and act tough but never actually do anything useful, and neither can they because they still haven't figured it out.

    Not to mention gun control for the proletariat didn't stop the unarmed drones from shaking down your empire either, Joe... (because they got organised)

    Replies: @Bragadocious, @Joe Stalin

    Admit it; you can’t stand it that Americans have militarily useful weapons and you gave up yours because you were talked in to it. That’s why you used the phrase “legal peashooters”… Brits can make some bow & arrows and crossbows and so your government allows those.

    That’s why the standard response for foreigners about resistance is: “We can resist by organization! We will form mobs! Our leadership can mass the people together and resist the oppression! Why can’t those stupid Yankees know that the drones and spies mean that resistance is IMPOSSIBLE!”

    So go ahead and form a mob, my unarmed British ‘bros’.

  88. @Agathoklis
    @Almost Missouri

    Not ALL western nations imitated the BLM protests. In Eastern Europe and South-Eastern Europe; and particularly, the Balkans and Russia there were very few protests. Also, I would not call the BLM Euro protesters cool but an assortment of riff raff losers.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

    Agree on both counts. But it is not I who thinks American BLM crap is “cool”. It is the Euros losers (West side).

  89. Connie Booth is now a psychotherapist, and is married to the cub of the Cowardly Lion.

  90. @Aardvark
    @Anon

    How about one that explodes when you mess with it or could spray toxic fumes if you try tagging it?
    Then it must be respected for being lethal.

    Oh wait - that would start the same mess all over again...

    Replies: @MEH 0910

    The Naked Gun Anti Graffiti Wall

  91. Connie Booth is now a psychotherapist, and is married to the cub of the Cowardly Lion.

    • Replies: @Ray P
    @Reg Cæsar

    Living with John Cleese for a few years must have been good preparation.

  92. Brits can make some bow & arrows and crossbows and so your government allows those.

    Englishmen were required by law to keep bows and arrows and to practice regularly as late as 1960.

    https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Act_for_the_Maintenance_of_Artillery_and_the_Debarring_of_Unlawful_Games

    https://thehistoryjar.com/tag/unlawful-games-act/

    https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Unlawful_Games_Act_1541

  93. After the Charlottesville fooferaw in 2017, some internet commenter put it nicely: No matter who wins the coming civil war, in the future no one is going to be building statues to white liberals.

  94. King Edward in a can and now Churchill in a box.

    Beat that.

  95. @Anonymous
    Fawlty Towers had the short Spaniard waiter Manuel who was the butt of a lot of the jokes and bits on the show. Even though he's a European Spaniard, hard to see it airing today when it would be interpreted as anti-Hispanic or anti-Latino. There are people today who complain that it was racist.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwYPCFfbhZM

    Replies: @degsy, @Ray P

    Fawlty Towers was repeated on one of the UK’s old t.v. show channels a couple of years ago, although, like a lot of shows that are more than 30-45 years old, it came with warnings about out-dated attitudes and discriminatory language. (When I watch one of these, it alerts me to be on the look-out for whatever has potential of causing offense to a modern leftist. I’m often struggling to find the un-pc content though).

  96. @Reg Cæsar
    Connie Booth is now a psychotherapist, and is married to the cub of the Cowardly Lion.


    http://www.statuestorieschicago.com/statues/oz-cowardlylion-.jpg

    Replies: @Ray P

    Living with John Cleese for a few years must have been good preparation.

  97. @peterike

    perhaps the greatest high point of the sitcom art, the “Don’t Mention the War” episode of John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers
     
    The rat episode was better.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Ganderson

    The kind of argument I love- which Fawlty is better; is Reggie Perrin better than Blackadder, and where does Yes (Prime) Minister fit in the hierarchy? And what about the Two Ronnies?

  98. @SunBakedSuburb
    @Jake

    "the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war"

    Anything Germanic pagan would be a good weapon in the war against Woke.

    Replies: @S. Anonyia

    Not necessarily. Viking apologism in popular culture (I say this as someone with substantial Scandinavian ancestry, by the way) is more prevalent than ever- they are never portrayed as the genuinely menacing baddies they actually were in video games or film, and yet wokism is all over the place.

  99. @YetAnotherAnon
    @peterike

    Aren't there Germans in the rat episode too? IIRC the Major goes to shoot the rat, and Basil thinks he's after the German guests.


    "But they're vermin, Fawlty!"

    "Er, quite - but forgive and forget, eh, Major?"
     

    Replies: @Ganderson

    “ or at least pretend we do…”

    The people behind this have no sense of humor, so one can not expect them to pick up on the subtleties of the Major and Fawlty. In fact I’d argue it wasn’t even all that subtle. Lefties like the Pythons, David Nobbs, the original SNLers and Ben Elton had senses of humor.

    What a depressing, humorless world we live in.

  100. @Jake
    @RichardTaylor

    That is it. What Britain now suffers comes inevitably from the history of the British Empire. Churchill is central to getting us all here.

    The sun never set on the British Empire. The sun never sets on the American Empire, best known as The Anglo-Zionist Empire, Part 2. WASP culture was made global, THE ruling culture of the globe to which all those fearing power and all those envying power bowed and to which they began assimilating. The entire world has been Anglicized in the sense that world Elites, with a couple of obvious exceptions, operate in the world very much as if they are the new Anglo-Saxon Puritan regicides (they must war every second against Christ the King and any possibility of Christendom) and all 'other' whites are Irish Catholics, who either are to be slaughtered or rounded up and quarantined in dire poverty.

    For those of you who prefer to see in the eyes of the Jewish half of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, we are all Palestinians.

    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war. And that means that WASP culture, like a giant con game of incalculable violence, eventually will implode, leaving chaos. Before the implosion, the Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire will use their non-white minions and anti-Christ minions to terrorize non-WASP whites they rule on the grandest scale yet, to make certain that when the damn breaks, there is no possibility whatsoever that Christendom can be revived anywhere in the Anglosphere or Western Europe.

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Replies: @RichardTaylor, @kaganovitch, @syonredux, @SunBakedSuburb, @GoRedWings!, @obvious, @Expletive Deleted

    the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war

    This sounds like British wartime propaganda. Germanic people are the most peaceful on earth. This excludes Britons, but includes white Americans by virtue of the Germanic component (USA was an isolationist country without colonies until 1917)

  101. The statues of the no longer Chazz statues don’t exist.

  102. @Jack McArthur
    The big statue which appears at the end of the first Planet of Apes movie c.1967. Prophetic?

    Replies: @Oswald Spengler

    Those maniacs — they finally, really did it!

  103. @RichardTaylor
    Churchill is in a box. Kind of like the one he put Great Britain in.

    Replies: @Jake, @Oswald Spengler

    “Churchill is in a box.”

  104. @Znzn
    Well in fairness, you do not see any statues of top opium dealers from the 19th century in China either, or statues of Genghis Khan in China, or statues honoring Curtis Lemay in Tokyo, so fair is fair. And people here would find statues honoring Omar Thornton offensive too I bet.

    Replies: @Neuday, @Mannlicher

    Well in fairness, you do not see any statues of top opium dealers from the 19th century in China either, or statues of Genghis Khan in China, or statues honoring Curtis Lemay in Tokyo, so fair is fair. And people here would find statues honoring Omar Thornton offensive too I bet.

    There actually are, like this one Hohhot, in Inner Mongolia.

  105. On the DVD set of Fawlty Towers released around 2002 there’s audio commentary for “The Germans” by the director of that episode. At one point, I think around where the Major is recounting how he once had to explain to a dim girl that it’s West Indians who are called n*ggers and the East Indians who are wogs, the old director calmly notes without elaboration that “this episode won’t be shown in the future”. I’ve always remembered the quiet certainty with which he made that statement and the eerie sense it gave me of the beckoning memory hole, and I sadly suspected he was right.

    The anti-German crassness of that episode is hardly a problem today – it’s the single use of the n-word and perhaps also the long look of utter bewilderment and slight suspicion Basil gives the black doctor he encounters in the hospital. That part in particular stands out terribly now but was fairly innocent amusement at the time, since in 1974/75 it was still possible for an English person to go all or most their life without meeting a black – and a medical doctor no less! The bit also made sense because Cleese played Basil as a reactionary non-cosmopolitan ill-at-ease around Continentals, much less coloureds.

  106. A Note from the End Times:

    I’ve just heard the 11:00 am news on Classic FM (which I only listen to while driving). The lead story was about “protestors” and “extreme rightists” planning to converge on the Churchill statue later today. No member of the “extreme right” was allowed to speak. Every person who was allowed to mouth off was a”protestor” or a supporter of same, including, or was I hallucinating, Al Sharpton, a man so well known to us all as a world renowned expert on English affairs.

    Classic FM is a private concern, and one best known for being as middle of the road and uncontroversial, even homey and conservative with a small c, as it gets in today’s Britain.

    The mask is off everywhere, and we have no one to defend us, except of course that infamous “extreme right”. But since its members are unarmed, we are defenceless, and at the mercy of a true and murderous extreme, that of the Left.

    Our image in stone first, but then us, in flesh ands blood.

  107. Anonymous[387] • Disclaimer says:
    @Rob (London)
    @kihowi

    I mostly agree - the Major isn't "a bigot" per se, just an old dodderer who absorbed the norms of his day. He's generally portrayed as a decent old chap.

    The scene in question is more surreal than anything - two slightly (or more than slightly) unhinged characters, with no real mutual understanding, having a nonsensical dialogue. It could almost be a Python sketch actually.

    Anyway, the good news is that the BBC appears to be restoring the episode to its streaming platform, albeit with a pompous "context" warning message.

    It occurs to me than an episode of the original British "The Office" (2001) contains an episode with (I think) two uses of the N-word. I remember watching it at the time and it felt naughty but not scandalous, and I'm pretty certain there were no complaints. Unimaginable now.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Anyway, the good news is that the BBC appears to be restoring the episode to its streaming platform, albeit with a pompous “context” warning message.

    I must ask: was this sudden reversal due to an outcry from the public? Or did saner heads (somehow) prevail at the BBC itself?

    (If the latter, you can colour me impressed. I’d scarcely give them credit for having any sense left.)

    Years ago, the noises from Radio 1 rather alarmingly began matching the sort of noises I only imagined emanating from the stereo speakers of a car driven by a peaceful protester in an American inner city. Once the BBC made it clear that multicultualism was the new byword, I realised they had nothing more to offer in the way of worthwhile entertainment, only dross.

    Sadly, the years since have only served to confirm this.

    It is ironic that they chose to pick on that particular programme, as their days of turning out timeless comedies like Fawlty Towers that go over well on both sides of the Atlantic are long past.

  108. Churchill was LITERALLY HITLER!!!

  109. I’m the man in the box
    Buried in my shit
    Won’t you come and save me?

    A song, ironically, about media censorship.

  110. @Ray P
    @Anonymous

    More controversial these days would be Mind Your Language (a mixed group of recent immigrants to Britain learn English at night school classes) and especially Love Thy Neighbour about a working-class white English couple and their new black next-door-neighbours.


    Although later regarded as terrible embarrassment, it was extremely popular in its day: indeed, from 1973 to 1975 it reigned as Britain's favourite sitcom. The basic situation is very simple: a West Indian couple, Bill and Barbie Reynolds, move in next door to the white working class Eddie and Joan Booth. The two women get on well; the two men take an immediate dislike to one another and are soon hurling insults like 'choc-ice' and 'snowflake' across the garden fence, to the evident delight of the studio audience.

    ... the white racist, Eddie, is show as backward in almost every way: a Labour voter, a trades union member, a Manchester United supporter, a Daily Mirror reader, he is a relic of a dying working-class world who insists that 'equal rights does not entitle n!g-n0gs to move in next door'. By contrast, the black couple are role-models of self-improvement and upward mobility. Rather implausibly Bill is a devoted admirer of [Conservative prime minister] Edward Heath. In other respects though, he is just another caricatured black man, 'a happy go lucky Jamaican with strong Conservative views' as the publicity for the inevitable spin-off film put it, with a comically childish high-pitched laugh. Meanwhile, his wife, Barbie, seems to be a sensible modern woman with a
    swanky stereo. Deep down, though, she is just another voluptuous black siren in a bikini and hot pants, who spends much of her time being ogled by white men. And throughout the series runs a thread of aggressive racial hostility that to modern eyes seems deeply distasteful. In one episode 'Operation Aggro', Eddie organizes a petition to 'Keep Maple Terrace White', and throws dog muck over the fence, narrowly missing his black neighbour. In others, he denounces Bill to his face as a 'coon', a 'bloody n!g-n0g', 'Sambo', and 'King Kong', while for good measure he dismisses other immigrant groups as 'Fu Manchu', 'Gunga Din', and 'Ali Baba'. Yet Bill is hardly a model of tolerance. Quick to dismiss Eddie as a 'honky', a 'snowflake', and as a 'racialist poof', he admits to his wife that he would not want black neighbours himself because of their impact on house prices.

    Since Love Thy Neighbour attracted large audiences for eight series over four years, millions of people presumably found it hilarious. What now seems extraordinary, though, is that many critics complained that it was too tame and inoffensive. ... As time went on and the program lost any pretence of having a satirical edge, however, the criticism became sharper. Black viewers unsurprisingly found the program, and especially its implied moral equivalence between the racist and his victim deeply disturbing: in July of 1975, a spokeswoman for the Race Relations Board told the New Society [left-wing political magazine] that she had not 'met a black person who isn't offended to hell by it.' And as the critic Chris Dunkley pointed out in September of 1972 it was 'a little frightening that the loudest laugh [in one episode] was elicited by a joke about a Negro's house-warming party: the 'White Honky' warned that his house would get really warm when somebody burned it down.'

    -- Dominic Sandbrook, State of Emergency
     

    Replies: @vhrm, @Jonathan Mason

    Love Thy Neighbour was written by toffs as a propaganda piece aimed at working class whites to encourage them to live peaceably with their new black neighbors.

    The concept is essentially that the two races are like competing soccer teams. You may symbolically hate the rival team and its supporters and show solidarity with your own group, but you should love the sport over mere tribal loyalties, and the best players of different teams may combine in a national team whose fans transcend local loyalties.

    In the case of the two families in the sit-com, while they may banter about racial rivalries, both share a concern about keeping up property values in their street and not lowering the tone of the neighborhood, though this may manifest in different ways.

    It is pretty shocking to watch today, but educative if you have never seen it. Skip to 19:30 for the best bit.

    Fawlty Towers is really about the decline of post-empire post-war Britain. Men like Fawlty, who might have held administrative positions overseas in the days of empire are now reduced to running small businesses and providing services to a clientele whom they secretly, or not-so-secretly in Basil Fawlty’s case, despise.

    Even to this day, even though chain hotels are much more common, you can find some UK bed-and-breakfast reviews on Trip Advisor where guests report the eccentric behavior of fossilized elderly proprietors.

    The joke in Fawlty Towers is that the Cleese characters actually acts out the passive-aggressive fantasies that most people would only experience as a passing thought or fantasy, and quickly dismiss. No one in their right mind would actually take a branch of a tree and administer a thrashing to a car with mechanical problems caused by poor maintenance.

    The Major, a permanent resident of Fawlty Towers, is an even older fossil of the ancien regime, but the guests include a number of symbolic post-war types who are difficult for Fawlty to accept like respectable Germans, the impoverished aristocrat (who turns out to be a con man), the police detective with long hair and a leather jacket, the pop star type with hairy chest and gold neck chain, the incompetent Irish builder, and so on.

    • Thanks: obvious
    • Replies: @Chrisnonymous
    @Jonathan Mason


    The Major, a permanent resident of Fawlty Towers, is an even older fossil of the ancien regime
     
    My favorite "traditional British" caricature is the 13-year-old girl who turns tricks in the hotel. Who doesn't remember the hilarity that ensues when Fawlty tries to convince the police that she was put up to it by her Pakistani johns? That silly Basil...
  111. @Jonathan Mason
    @Ray P

    Love Thy Neighbour was written by toffs as a propaganda piece aimed at working class whites to encourage them to live peaceably with their new black neighbors.

    The concept is essentially that the two races are like competing soccer teams. You may symbolically hate the rival team and its supporters and show solidarity with your own group, but you should love the sport over mere tribal loyalties, and the best players of different teams may combine in a national team whose fans transcend local loyalties.

    In the case of the two families in the sit-com, while they may banter about racial rivalries, both share a concern about keeping up property values in their street and not lowering the tone of the neighborhood, though this may manifest in different ways.

    It is pretty shocking to watch today, but educative if you have never seen it. Skip to 19:30 for the best bit.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sOLgadNVoc&t=693s

    Fawlty Towers is really about the decline of post-empire post-war Britain. Men like Fawlty, who might have held administrative positions overseas in the days of empire are now reduced to running small businesses and providing services to a clientele whom they secretly, or not-so-secretly in Basil Fawlty's case, despise.

    Even to this day, even though chain hotels are much more common, you can find some UK bed-and-breakfast reviews on Trip Advisor where guests report the eccentric behavior of fossilized elderly proprietors.

    The joke in Fawlty Towers is that the Cleese characters actually acts out the passive-aggressive fantasies that most people would only experience as a passing thought or fantasy, and quickly dismiss. No one in their right mind would actually take a branch of a tree and administer a thrashing to a car with mechanical problems caused by poor maintenance.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78b67l_yxUc

    The Major, a permanent resident of Fawlty Towers, is an even older fossil of the ancien regime, but the guests include a number of symbolic post-war types who are difficult for Fawlty to accept like respectable Germans, the impoverished aristocrat (who turns out to be a con man), the police detective with long hair and a leather jacket, the pop star type with hairy chest and gold neck chain, the incompetent Irish builder, and so on.

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous

    The Major, a permanent resident of Fawlty Towers, is an even older fossil of the ancien regime

    My favorite “traditional British” caricature is the 13-year-old girl who turns tricks in the hotel. Who doesn’t remember the hilarity that ensues when Fawlty tries to convince the police that she was put up to it by her Pakistani johns? That silly Basil…

  112. @Jake
    @RichardTaylor

    That is it. What Britain now suffers comes inevitably from the history of the British Empire. Churchill is central to getting us all here.

    The sun never set on the British Empire. The sun never sets on the American Empire, best known as The Anglo-Zionist Empire, Part 2. WASP culture was made global, THE ruling culture of the globe to which all those fearing power and all those envying power bowed and to which they began assimilating. The entire world has been Anglicized in the sense that world Elites, with a couple of obvious exceptions, operate in the world very much as if they are the new Anglo-Saxon Puritan regicides (they must war every second against Christ the King and any possibility of Christendom) and all 'other' whites are Irish Catholics, who either are to be slaughtered or rounded up and quarantined in dire poverty.

    For those of you who prefer to see in the eyes of the Jewish half of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, we are all Palestinians.

    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war. And that means that WASP culture, like a giant con game of incalculable violence, eventually will implode, leaving chaos. Before the implosion, the Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire will use their non-white minions and anti-Christ minions to terrorize non-WASP whites they rule on the grandest scale yet, to make certain that when the damn breaks, there is no possibility whatsoever that Christendom can be revived anywhere in the Anglosphere or Western Europe.

    Satin is collecting his dues.

    Replies: @RichardTaylor, @kaganovitch, @syonredux, @SunBakedSuburb, @GoRedWings!, @obvious, @Expletive Deleted

    What a bunch of bullshit, The least devout, most pagan people are the Roman Catholics. Peter did not found a Church in Rome of all places, at least not the Peter who was an Apostle.

    The whole thing is a gigantic ripoff by lesser races like the Irish Chocoholics”, all of whom are come later and after tryharders, who cannot read or understand the Bible, and who are not at all the Lost Sheep of Israel. Roman Catholicism is a counterfeit religion designed to imitate the Real Israelite Commonwealth.

    Of COURSE the Puritan is “Judaizing”AND “Germanic”, that’s what we call it “Israel”. So typical and try to have to both ways: cant invent anything but must appropriate the invention. King James lost his head because he insisted on making war and costing the lives of tens of thousands. Nobody has to put up with that shyte, and Kings must be subject servants of God, not emperors.

  113. @Jake
    @RichardTaylor

    That is it. What Britain now suffers comes inevitably from the history of the British Empire. Churchill is central to getting us all here.

    The sun never set on the British Empire. The sun never sets on the American Empire, best known as The Anglo-Zionist Empire, Part 2. WASP culture was made global, THE ruling culture of the globe to which all those fearing power and all those envying power bowed and to which they began assimilating. The entire world has been Anglicized in the sense that world Elites, with a couple of obvious exceptions, operate in the world very much as if they are the new Anglo-Saxon Puritan regicides (they must war every second against Christ the King and any possibility of Christendom) and all 'other' whites are Irish Catholics, who either are to be slaughtered or rounded up and quarantined in dire poverty.

    For those of you who prefer to see in the eyes of the Jewish half of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, we are all Palestinians.

    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war. And that means that WASP culture, like a giant con game of incalculable violence, eventually will implode, leaving chaos. Before the implosion, the Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire will use their non-white minions and anti-Christ minions to terrorize non-WASP whites they rule on the grandest scale yet, to make certain that when the damn breaks, there is no possibility whatsoever that Christendom can be revived anywhere in the Anglosphere or Western Europe.

    Satin is collecting his dues.

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    This is a religious, spiritual war. WASP culture is the greatest vehicle of anti-Christendom because it is the product of Judaizing heresy married to the spirit of revived pagan Germanic lust for perpetual war.

    I’m keen to have your most precise definition of this abominable WASP monster, so that I can recognise it when it appears. Sounds absolutely frightful, and obviously disturbs you very much. Should I check under the bed at night?

    t. old English Protestant man.

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