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‘And today’s news is … I’m cancelled’: Hugh Bonneville, Alex Kingston and Steven Moffat on their cancel comedy (www.theguardian.com)

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As Douglas Is Cancelled prepares to air, Moffat talks about career implosions, Bonneville relives past nude scenes – and Kingston recalls the ‘wandering hands’ warnings she used to be given

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[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Making the racist the butt of the joke is still openly airing and giving a platform to racism on tv, and as your anecdote proves, some people (those it's actually aimed at) don't see it as a joke at all because they are that person, and being the "star" of a tv show only emboldens them (and those who the bigotry targets are still the ones actually being targeted, whoever the butt of the joke supposedly is).

Also, that isn't the case for this show, where it isn't the bigot who is the butt of the joke, but those calling him out.

Either way, it was garbage then, and it's garbage now, trying to make it ok somehow is completely missing the point (that both examples exists to pander to bigots, full stop).

[–] HumanPenguin 1 points 5 months ago

Also, that isn’t the case for this show, where it isn’t the bigot who is the butt of the joke, but those calling him out.

I am curios what I have missed that indicates that. As I have not seen a script and cannot imagine the writers openly saying so.

There is no doubt folks in the 70s. Even those with the right intent made mistakes. And did what folks now would consider stupid. And I have no reason to assume the writers of this are not also making such mistakes.

But I have seen nothing that talks about the intent or plans of this show beyond it being about a news presenter getting cancelled. It really sounds like you think adressing the negativity of the anti woke crowd is impossible. While at the same time making some non evidenced rather nasty accusations about the writer of a show you haven't seen?