oops truth versus wokery

[vetran]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...eader-comments

John Cleese has his microphone taken away at South by Southwest festival for saying that Britain should get 'reparations from Italy and France' for Romans and Normans enslaving Britons

• British comedian John Cleese in row with fellow comics over slave reparations
• Monty Python icon had been at South by Southwest public event in Texas, USA
• But he landed himself in hot water after joking about France and Italy owing Brits slave reparations for the Roman Empire and the Norman invasion of 1066
• His microphone was eventually taken off him by American comic Dulcé Sloan

oh dear! Its not an approved truth!

He forgot the Barbary Pirates, Arabs etc.

[_V_]

That's his career ended.

[SueEllen]

That's his career ended.

Only in America.

[Zigenare]

Not the first time that he's courted controversy.

[cojak]

Ah well, now he’s just an old, entitled white man.

[Zigenare]

Ah well, now he’s just an old, entitled white man.

Bearing in mind he's done his fair share for the fairer sex - how many divorce settlements has he paid?

Here's probably his most expensive...

[vetran]

Ah well, now he’s just an old, entitled white man.

nothing like a bit of overt ageism, racism and sexism then!

[SueEllen]

nothing like a bit of overt ageism, racism and sexism then!

Nah he doesn't count.

Too rich plus wrong age, wrong race and wrong sex.

[xoggoth]

Pointing to world history being 'a history of crime', he added: 'It's a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker and it's always been that. It's deeply, deeply distasteful.

Mustn't reference any facts of course.

Totally agree with Cleese, the only reason the British Empire was so big was because, at the time, we were an advanced nation. If any other nation had been in our position they would have done the same thing. Some countries treated colonised people worse than the British, check out the Belgium empire.

[xoggoth]

To sum up, it's not racist to say that all humans, whatever their race, have the same flaws.