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Was the audience member wrong?
Isn't Lawrence Fox a privilege white man?
The reaction was nothing to do with what the audience member said, it was a reaction to Fox himself.
If he wants to be a Katie Hopkins / Piers Morgan, then so be it...and he was cancelled because he's a jerk. Not because of his political and social views.
Evidence?
Ricky Gervais...he's got a HUGE tv sitcom (After Life) and his stand-up on Netflix have been one of their biggest hit in years.
David Chappelle - likewise.
Kevin Hart, Norm McDonald, Anthony Jeselnik. You can go as far to the right as you want but couple it with being a jerk and your career is over.
And it's not just me - even 'normal people' have cottoned onto Fox's innate tosserism.
Was the audience member wrong?
Isn't Lawrence Fox a privilege white man?
The reaction was nothing to do with what the audience member said, it was a reaction to Fox himself.
If he wants to be a Katie Hopkins / Piers Morgan, then so be it...and he was cancelled because he's a jerk. Not because of his political and social views.
Evidence?
Ricky Gervais...he's got a HUGE tv sitcom (After Life) and his stand-up on Netflix have been one of their biggest hit in years.
David Chappelle - likewise.
Kevin Hart, Norm McDonald, Anthony Jeselnik. You can go as far to the right as you want but couple it with being a jerk and your career is over.
And it's not just me - even 'normal people' have cottoned onto Fox's innate tosserism.
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//Isn't Lawrence Fox a privilege white man?//
I don’t know whether he is privileged. It depends on your interpretation. The man with no shoes is privileged when compared to the man with no feet. That said, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with being privileged. But he is a white man. The issue he took, if I recall (I did see QT, but it’s a while back), was that it was suggested that his viewpoint was not valid or worthy of consideration because he had these attributes. His response (and mine if I had been in his position) was that he was born with those attributes in the same was as the audience member was born with hers. His point was that they are inalienable, not under his control for him to negotiate or change, and to suggest his could not hold an opinion on a particular topic because of them was outrageous. It was effectively closing him down because he is white, male and privileged. Had it been the other way round and he accused the audience member of not having a valid opinion because she was female, black an underprivileged (if indeed she was), there would have been absolute outrage. I’m not surprised he took umbrage.
I don’t know whether he is privileged. It depends on your interpretation. The man with no shoes is privileged when compared to the man with no feet. That said, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with being privileged. But he is a white man. The issue he took, if I recall (I did see QT, but it’s a while back), was that it was suggested that his viewpoint was not valid or worthy of consideration because he had these attributes. His response (and mine if I had been in his position) was that he was born with those attributes in the same was as the audience member was born with hers. His point was that they are inalienable, not under his control for him to negotiate or change, and to suggest his could not hold an opinion on a particular topic because of them was outrageous. It was effectively closing him down because he is white, male and privileged. Had it been the other way round and he accused the audience member of not having a valid opinion because she was female, black an underprivileged (if indeed she was), there would have been absolute outrage. I’m not surprised he took umbrage.
sp; //People simply didn't want to work with him in the same way that most 'normal people' can't stand being the company of someone who can't shut up about their political views.//
Do you identify yourself as a ' normal person' ? Your paranoiac posts on this thread appear, to me at least, to be otherwise.
Do you identify yourself as a ' normal person' ? Your paranoiac posts on this thread appear, to me at least, to be otherwise.
sp; //People simply didn't want to work with him in the same way that most 'normal people' can't stand being the company of someone who can't shut up about their political views.//
Which has just reminded me: he was invited onto a programme, the where the whole idea of which is for participants to give their views on the questions posed. He was effectively castigated for doing just that by a person who believed his opinion was not valid because he is white, male and privileged. Being ostracised came after that.
Which has just reminded me: he was invited onto a programme, the where the whole idea of which is for participants to give their views on the questions posed. He was effectively castigated for doing just that by a person who believed his opinion was not valid because he is white, male and privileged. Being ostracised came after that.
sp1814
//Ricky Gervais...he's got a HUGE tv sitcom (After Life) and his stand-up on Netflix have been one of their biggest hit in years.
David Chappelle - likewise.//
Dave Chappelle is an odd example of someone who doesn't get cancelled.(if that's what you are saying. Apologies if I've misunderstood you)
He was cancelled less than a fortnight ago.
And it wasn't through lack of trying by the cancel culture movement that his Netflix show wasn't cancelled.
In a rare example of a company standing up to the bully brigade, Netflix showed their revolting LGBTQ workers the door.
//Ricky Gervais...he's got a HUGE tv sitcom (After Life) and his stand-up on Netflix have been one of their biggest hit in years.
David Chappelle - likewise.//
Dave Chappelle is an odd example of someone who doesn't get cancelled.(if that's what you are saying. Apologies if I've misunderstood you)
He was cancelled less than a fortnight ago.
And it wasn't through lack of trying by the cancel culture movement that his Netflix show wasn't cancelled.
In a rare example of a company standing up to the bully brigade, Netflix showed their revolting LGBTQ workers the door.
sp1Q14
//Kevin Hart, Norm McDonald, Anthony Jeselnik. You can go as far to the right as you want but couple it with being a jerk and your career is over.//
Are you trying to say Norm was a jerk? How dare you. (greta voice)
As for his career being over. 'Funny thing that, it, err, died around the same time I did' As Norm might say, if only he could. sob
//Kevin Hart, Norm McDonald, Anthony Jeselnik. You can go as far to the right as you want but couple it with being a jerk and your career is over.//
Are you trying to say Norm was a jerk? How dare you. (greta voice)
As for his career being over. 'Funny thing that, it, err, died around the same time I did' As Norm might say, if only he could. sob
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