Charlie Hebdo - Front cover

[Smoginexile]

What if Prince Andrew had been born first?

 

[ThePrisoner]

spot on Wilf, I can't believe that holgate_roof just put Alf Garnett forward in that way....scratch that, I can believe it.

He seems to have been spoon-fed establishment drivel all his life and taken it all at face value without a second thought.

To not realise Alf Garnett was mocking racist bigots is breath-takingly naive. God knows what he thinks about 'Love Thy Neighbour'

 

[the_holgate_roof]

The character of 'alf garnett' is a creation to show how stupid and ignorant racism is.

he was not designed to promote or give an enlightened view on racism, rather, to satire it as abhorrent .

racists didnt get this (why would they) and made him a cult figure of hero status - the very fact that the part was acted by Warren Mitchell a labour voter and son of a Russian Jew went right over their heads, and still does today.

So would this ‘creation to show how stupid and ignorant racism is’ be palatable and acceptable now or would it be too near the knuckle as it were????

 

[the_holgate_roof]

He seems to have been spoon-fed establishment drivel all his life and taken it all at face value without a second thought.

To not realise Alf Garnett was mocking racist bigots is breath-takingly naive. God knows what he thinks about 'Love Thy Neighbour'

‘ Speight said he wrote the series to challenge racism, it was felt by some critics that many people watched it because they agreed with Garnett's views.’

So as you say the intention was to challenge racism but the outcome may have been different than intended.

 

[Muttley]

it was felt by some critics

 

[BoroMart]

What if Prince Andrew had been born first?

exactly, it's a matter of luck if we end up with a pervert, a pedo, or a sociopath and we have no chance to vote them out if they are.

 

[BoroMart]

So would this ‘creation to show how stupid and ignorant racism is’ be palatable and acceptable now or would it be too near the knuckle as it were????

ahaha he really didn't know did he! Of course a programme would be acceptable that shows up racists, as it always should be

 

[the_holgate_roof]

ahaha he really didn't know did he! Of course a programme would be acceptable that shows up racists, as it always should be

.....as long as the perception is that is what it is aiming to do......it’s all in the perception you see.

 

[Osboro]

.....as long as the perception is that is what it is aiming to do......it’s all in the perception you see.

I perceive a moron.

 

[the_holgate_roof]

I perceive a moron.

I perceive a Doyle...