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Mr. Bean condemns cancel culture: A "medieval mob looking for someone to burn" - C C - Jan 10, 2021
Cynical Sindee: Uh-oh. If you happen to be a fan or just a collector opportunist, better stock up on his soon-to-be forbidden work. Potential to become as rare as Speedy Gonzalez cartoons.
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Rowan Atkinson, star of "Mr. Bean", condemns cancel culture: A "medieval mob looking for someone to burn"
https://www.dailywire.com/news/rowan-atkinson-star-of-mr-bean-condemns-cancel-culture-a-medieval-mob-looking-for-someone-to-burn
EXCERPTS: British superstar Rowan Atkinson ... forever immortalized as the iconic "Mr. Bean," has joined Ricky Gervais and John Cleese in the fight against cancel culture. [...] "The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society," he said, as reported by Variety. "It becomes a case of either you're with us or against us. And if you're against us, you deserve to be `canceled.'"
"It's important that we're exposed to a wide spectrum of opinion, but what we have now is the digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn," Atkinson added. "So it is scary for anyone who's a victim of that mob and it fills me with fear about the future."
[...] Atkinson joins the ranks of several British comedians who have condemned cancel culture, including "Monty Python" alum John Cleese and Ricky Gervais.
[...] Cleese said that cancel culture, often fueled by political correctness, "misunderstands the main purposes of life, which is to have fun." [...] Cleese added that political correctness creates a problem for comedians because they "have to set the bar according to what we are told by the most touchy, most emotionally unstable and fragile, and least stoic people in the country."
Comedian Ricky Gervais has long been an opponent of cancel culture and the excesses of political correctness in general. "The scary thing is being canceled if you say the wrong thing and suddenly Netflix can take you off their platform," Gervais said. "You could be the most woke, politically correct stand-up in the world at the moment, but you don't know what it's going to be like in 10 years time. You can get canceled for things you said 10 years ago," he added [new cultural shifts of the future]... (MORE - details)
RE: Mr. Bean condemns cancel culture: A "medieval mob looking for someone to burn" - Syne - Jan 11, 2021
Mr. Bean is overrated, but Rowan Atkinson has a lot of great comedy bits.
RE: Mr. Bean condemns cancel culture: A "medieval mob looking for someone to burn" - stryder - Jan 11, 2021
Something to consider, a work by Dante entired "The Divine Comedy". Was his work funny? (I wouldn't say so from my perspective) however in order to publish something at that time that would of likely encouraged the wrath of woke, he entitled it "Comedìa" so as to seperate it from the mainstream and keep the wrath of woke at bay.
In some respects this means anything titled "Comedy" should be free of woke afflicting any worldly claims at any given time. Think of it like an Artistic License.
RE: Mr. Bean condemns cancel culture: A "medieval mob looking for someone to burn" - Syne - Jan 11, 2021
(Jan 11, 2021 05:54 PM)stryder Wrote: Something to consider, a work by Dante entired "The Divine Comedy". Was his work funny? (I wouldn't say so from my perspective) however in order to publish something at that time that would of likely encouraged the wrath of woke, he entitled it "Comedìa" so as to seperate it from the mainstream and keep the wrath of woke at bay.
In some respects this means anything titled "Comedy" should be free of woke afflicting any worldly claims at any given time. Think of it like an Artistic License.
So religion in the time of Dante was less censorious than the modern left.
RE: Mr. Bean condemns cancel culture: A "medieval mob looking for someone to burn" - stryder - Jan 12, 2021
If only I did twitter or at the very least printed T-Shirts. As both could equally ring out the sentiments of:
#Wokethef**kup!