Danny K
Wednesday 28th May 2008 2:16am [Edited]
238 posts
Poles and gypsies - what easy targets, we must be PC brainwashed by the politically correct brigade.
I'm seeing more and references to these two groups almost on a daily basis. And I think there's something going on here. TV progs about Poles. Phone-in's about the 'East European invasion'. Phone-ins about Gypsy encampments on the Jeremy Vine and The Wright Stuff shows. It's a national collective media inspired look-the-other-way brainwash in order not to appear racist or phobic against another minority that has killed and threatens to kill more of us, but is in fact reverse-racism - make a cartoon of them and they won't track you down and threaten your life will they? At every juncture for a quick painless jibe we'll trot out those two groups. Because to mention Islamist's/Muslims fundamental or otherwise is to make us responsible for inflaming 'relations'.
Whatever sketches or comments we make we can no longer mention that other 'minority'. Why not loads of Islamic balloons? Illegal Muslim balloons at that? Not many sketches, (cartoons), on THAT subject is there?
Where're the Lenny Bruce's and Bill Hicks for our age?
Where are the sketches on radio or TV of say a Frank-Spencer-like incompetent suicide bomber who longs to be successful? - Banned from his own and every other group because he's 'bloody dangerous', and likely to 'have someone's eye out' before he's finished training?
Or a take on the videos they've screened on all the news bulletins a few months back in which one of the British July 7th terrorists actually warned and threatened: 'We will continue to bomb you until you leave our lands'.
Which almost begs a skit along the lines of someone advising the Prime Minister: 'That's it then. We've got to withdraw from Blackburn, Birmingham and Leicester'.
Frightened of someone cornering you and screaming, "I keel you! I keel you!" ?
Who declared it was against the law to make sketches about Islam and fundamentalists? If it's not racist to make jokes, jibes and sketches about Poles and Gypsies then the same goes for Pakistanis and Arabs - the two nations most likely to be Muslim. (Mind you is it any wonder we don't, when Anne Robinson made a jibe about 'the Welsh' and promptly received a warning from a Welsh police Chief). That doesn't mean the punchline has to be at their expense, it could just as easily be about our reactions towards them, repressed or otherwise - but to exclude them as a group is racist. We'll make jibes against Gypsies and Poles because we're more comfortable with them than we'll care to admit too. We're not comfortable with Islam. And one form of racism is to ignore them in comedy - it's as if the nation's decided they don't exist.
- Well, it's been a long day.
