Cancel Culture

[Captain Howdy]

5 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Great film. Oshima often cut through the bullshit. Never realised Sakamoto played the captain as well. Don't think I'd ever seen him without the flop of white hair.

Fighting bowel cancer at the moment unfortunately 

[SasaS]

2 hours ago, cloggypop said:

It's a fucking disgrace that Yellow Magic Orchestra were not in the best international bands poll.

Neither were Japan nor Sylvian in the solo tournament.

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Bit racist to call them yellow these days, isn't it.

It is the color of their magic. Their magic is yellow. Nothing to see here.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

She's got a point.

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

A party formed by the wealthy to look after the interests of the wealthy regardless of the consequences versus a party formed by ordinary people to give them at least a small say in what happens in their daily lives. Has always been an easy choice for me.

[General Dryness]

4 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

She's got a point.

 

 

Oh, "satire". Yawn.

[Gnasher]

4 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

She's got a point.

 

 

Fucking hell shes posh. A bit gringy that. 

[SasaS]

Not cancel culture as such, but this has left me absolutely astonished today.

Translator of Amanda Gorman's (the poet from Biden's inauguration) collection into Dutch Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (apparently chosen by Gorman herself) resigned from the assignment under public pressure to hire a translator who is black.

A translator. To translate into Dutch.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/01/amanda-gorman-white-translator-quits-marieke-lucas-rijneveld?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3P_ZtQURRwRzimHr3n7r7B8naoDDZl4UVHLdZLRHsZAP5yJTLLHAtlTuY#Echobox=1614601084

[cloggypop]

2 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Not cancel culture as such, but this has left me absolutely astonished today.

 

 

Translator of Amanda Gorman's (the poet from Biden's inauguration) collection into Dutch Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (apparently chosen by Gorman herself) resigned from the assignment under public pressure to hire a translator who is black.
 

 

A translator. To translate into Dutch.
 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/01/amanda-gorman-white-translator-quits-marieke-lucas-rijneveld?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3P_ZtQURRwRzimHr3n7r7B8naoDDZl4UVHLdZLRHsZAP5yJTLLHAtlTuY#Echobox=1614601084

 

Just wait until you find out that Rijneveld identifies as both male and female and uses the personal pronouns they/them. 

 

Not sure why a Booker winning author was doing translation anyway myself. 

[TheHowieLama]

All I see/hear all day are people who have been cancelled railing on about it. I am not sure it is working.

[SasaS]

3 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Just wait until you find out that Rijneveld identifies as both male and female and uses the personal pronouns they/them. 

 

Not sure why a Booker winning author was doing translation anyway myself. 

I know how R identifies, from the article.

And why not? You think that is the issue here?

[cloggypop]

Just now, SasaS said:

I know how R identifies, from the article.

And why not? You think that is the issue here?

Not at all. I didn't bother reading the article though. I'm outraged* that a Booker winning author was asked to translate into Dutch. You wouldn't get that the other way around. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*I'm not really outraged 

[SasaS]

20 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Not at all. I didn't bother reading the article though. I'm outraged* that a Booker winning author was asked to translate into Dutch. You wouldn't get that the other way around. 

 

*I'm not really outraged 

Well David Mitchell did a translation from Japanese.

I thought you knew more about the background of the entire story. Without it, it really reads like wokeness or whatever gone mad. What's next, you need to be white, male and a bit of a fascist to translate Pound or Hamsun.

[Mudface]

They should have just used Google Translate.

[Bjornebye]

12 minutes ago, Mudface said:

They should have just used Google Translate.

And denied a black man a job? You evil bastard 

[Mudface]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

And denied a black man a job? You evil bastard 

They could have hired a black person to copy and paste it. You need to think out of the box.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Mudface said:

They could have hired a black person to copy and paste it. You need to think out of the box.

true. But what about the white person? Its a fucking minefield mate I'm staying out of it. 

[Mudface]

10 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

true. But what about the white person? Its a fucking minefield mate I'm staying out of it. 

To be honest, unless it's translated by a method and person acceptable in all aspects to every Twitter cunt out there, they can stick the fucking poem up their arses. It's far more important to satisfy some arbitrary quota than have people read and be inspired by something in their own langauge.

[TheHowieLama]

19 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

true. But what about the white person? 

Stands there and supervises the job. Middle manager of sorts.

[Jairzinho]

25 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

And denied a black man a job? You evil bastard 

Are you saying Google Translate is white?

[Bjornebye]

 

On 01/03/2021 at 15:24, Jairzinho said:

Are you saying Google Translate is white?

Black search engines matter 

[Bjornebye]

Anyway.... thoughts? 

 

 

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-56249556

 

Ant Middleton axed by C4 over 'personal conduct'

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Channel 4 has said it will not work with Ant Middleton again due to his "personal conduct".

Last year, the SAS: Who Dares Wins star faced criticism over comments about the Black Lives Matter protests and coronavirus.

In a statement, the channel said: "It has become clear that our views and values are not aligned."

Ant Middleton has also posted, saying he's "really excited about the future and what's coming this year".

SAS: Who Dares Wins sees civilians put through gruelling military training exercises to test their physical and mental strength.

 

The full statement from Channel 4 says: "Ant Middleton will not be taking part in future series of SAS: Who Dares Wins.Following a number of discussions Channel 4 and Minnow Films have had with him in relation to his personal conduct it has become clear that our views and values are not aligned and we will not be working with him again."

The 40-year-old said on social media he had "decided it's time to move on from SAS Who Dares Wins UK".

He added: "Big respect to my fellow DS - it's been a journey I'll never forget. Thanks to everyone that took part and made the show what it is."

"Really excited about the future and what's coming this year."

In June, he apologised after referring to Black Lives Matter protesters as "absolute scum" as he complained about the "extreme left" and the English Defence League's "extreme right" taking to the streets.

Ant Middleton said he was "anti-racist and anti-violence" after deleting the tweet.

[Jairzinho]

2 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

Black search engines matter 

http://www.blackle.com/

[Bjornebye]

32 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

http://www.blackle.com/

Jesus wept 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

40 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Anyway.... thoughts? 

 

 

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-56249556

 

Ant Middleton axed by C4 over 'personal conduct'

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7 hours ago

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Channel 4 has said it will not work with Ant Middleton again due to his "personal conduct".

Last year, the SAS: Who Dares Wins star faced criticism over comments about the Black Lives Matter protests and coronavirus.

In a statement, the channel said: "It has become clear that our views and values are not aligned."

Ant Middleton has also posted, saying he's "really excited about the future and what's coming this year".

SAS: Who Dares Wins sees civilians put through gruelling military training exercises to test their physical and mental strength.

 

The full statement from Channel 4 says: "Ant Middleton will not be taking part in future series of SAS: Who Dares Wins.Following a number of discussions Channel 4 and Minnow Films have had with him in relation to his personal conduct it has become clear that our views and values are not aligned and we will not be working with him again."

The 40-year-old said on social media he had "decided it's time to move on from SAS Who Dares Wins UK".

He added: "Big respect to my fellow DS - it's been a journey I'll never forget. Thanks to everyone that took part and made the show what it is."

"Really excited about the future and what's coming this year."

In June, he apologised after referring to Black Lives Matter protesters as "absolute scum" as he complained about the "extreme left" and the English Defence League's "extreme right" taking to the streets.

Ant Middleton said he was "anti-racist and anti-violence" after deleting the tweet.

<Insert Partridge shrug gif.>