Feb 2020
6:15pm, 21 Feb 2020
9,571 posts
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rf_fozzy
Classy from a position of a person in power bbc.co.uk
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Feb 2020
6:16pm, 21 Feb 2020
9,572 posts
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rf_fozzy
Everything is part of the culture war to the far right.
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Feb 2020
7:58pm, 21 Feb 2020
3,061 posts
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Bob!
US President Donald Trump has hit out at the Oscars for awarding Best Picture to Parasite, a dark South Korean comedy about class struggle and wealth inequality. It is in Korean, and has been screened internationally with English subtitles. He asked "can we get Gone With the Wind back please?" - a reference to the 1939 film set during the US Civil War, which at the time set a record for Oscar wins but has been criticised for its racist stereotypes and nostalgia for slavery. Responding to the president's criticism, Parasite distributor Neon tweeted: "Understandable, he can't read." |
Feb 2020
12:52am, 22 Feb 2020
7,059 posts
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Too Much Water
He also said Sunset Boulevard as well. Weird comment tbh. Huge amount of pro-Trump right wing Koreans, especially the older generation. The party of Moon Jae In (President) is socially / economically similar to the Tories and considerably is to the left of Park Gun Hye (the one who was impeached). As a rule Korea / Japan / Taiwan is more right wing than Western Europe and particularly so on social issues eg gay rights, immigration, women’s rights, racism etc. Blood and soil nationalism which I do not like at all. One of the things I like about being English / British is that it doesn’t matter where your family are from or your skin colour or your religion. |
Feb 2020
7:39am, 22 Feb 2020
899 posts
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Ally-C
I’m struggling to comprehend that last paragraph tbh TMW.
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Feb 2020
8:24am, 22 Feb 2020
6,431 posts
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jda
I think he's just trolling us over the suppression of the report into the "institutionally racist" home office.
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Feb 2020
9:53am, 22 Feb 2020
2,022 posts
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Canute
Conservatism represents belief in maintaining the established social order. In Britain, ‘established’ has long been closely aligned with ‘inherited’. Thus there is an inherent tension in ‘one nation conservatism’ that aims to represent the ordinary person. Suppression of the report into the "institutionally racist" home office is a by-product of that tension. Like hypocrisy, it is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. However, something similar could be said of champagne socialism. We are now seeing a shift from the alignment between ‘established’ and ‘inherited’ to an identification of ‘establishment’ with ‘educated’. For those of us that believe that education might provide a more satisfactory foundation than inheritance for social order based on equality, we need to keep in mind that an educated elite is not immune from paternalism similar to that of one nation conservatism. The current world-wide surge of populism, and in a particular the recent UK general election, are a wake-up call. |
Feb 2020
9:59am, 22 Feb 2020
23,060 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Where the hell is our Glorious Leader at the moment? He seems to have been AWOL since the election. Didn't he promise to strain every sinew for us?
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Feb 2020
10:16am, 22 Feb 2020
2,463 posts
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Fellrunning
I've come across, in my line of work as an estate manager, plenty of Eton/Oxbridge/Born to rule types. Almost to a man/woman they regard "ordinary people" as a necessary evil to be parted from their hard earned cash at every opportunity in order to maintain them in the style into which they were born. They reserve particular contempt for anyone who's actually made an honest living and prospered. Entrepreneurs especially. They yearn for the days of forelock tugging, and tousled urchins with dirty faces. Rather cleverly they've persuaded the proletariat to buy into the same post Downton ideal by selling the lie that if the clock were indeed wound back a century they (the proles) would be in the drawing room with the cigars and port rather than downstairs doing the washing up and mucking out the horses. |
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Feb 2020
10:25am, 22 Feb 2020
2,023 posts
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Canute
I fear that our glorious leader is lazy. He represents an established order that is inherently based on inherited privilege. When possible collapse of the Toddbrook dam wall threatened Whaley Bridge he was quite happy to visit to say ‘it will be alright chaps’. However when people in many parts of the country are actually dealing with water flooding into the kitchen, a practical plan is required.
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