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The guy who created Father Ted is a massive right winger and probably supports Israel so not a perfect move.
Actually, after writing that I checked and he’s really annoyed by this, so maybe it’s a double win.
“We hear you’re a racist now, Graham”
“Now, have yea always been that way, or is it a new thing yer tryin out?”
Co-created. This is Arthur Mathews erasure.
He's so pathetic it's almost farcical.
Lost the cheese grater in the divorce
..accused of antisemitism..
Taking a stance on Israel's war in Gaza does not automatically make one anti-Semitic 🙄
I'd argue that anyone who claims that taking a stance against genocide is anti-Semitic, is the one being anti-Semitic...
Why? Because that claim essentially equates claiming that Semitic people have a right to genocide, or it's an inherent behaviour of Semitic people, thus it's anti-Semitic.
Calling yourself Semitic is like calling yourself Aryan. Claiming relations to a long dead culture through genetics in order to claim "ancestral land".
There's also the fact that the people who actually match the general genetic profile of the ancient inhabitants of the area are the Palestinians, not the Israeli colonizers.
Unless they mean “speakers of Semitic languages” in which case all Arabic people would be included too.
Not really, Semitic peoples is an exonym coming from the name Shem from the bible used to describe many cultures from the fertile cresent and surrounding areas that share similar cultural and languages, this would include Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Berber, Egyptian, Coptic, Phoenician, and Cananite languages at a minimum. In more common terms semeticic and specifically anti-semitism has become associated with Judaism specifically as many large scale antisemitic movements (against Jews specifically) in the second half of the 20th century took place in the middle east in what could be called Semitic countries for cultural similarity. This foes not excuse the current outcomes of the slaughter going on but context will help understand what is going on and why which makes things easier to change, and false facts or propaganda doesn't help solve that.
That and the Palestinians are Semitic people too
But accusing everyone and their cat who doesn't agree with their genocide of being antisemitic is definitely antisemantic.
At least it wasn't the episode where he gets caught making insensitive racial jokes and then the whole island turns fascist.
"I hear you're a racist now father".
Great episode.
Do you know, the farm takes up most of my time and after that I just like to have a cup of tea, I don’t know how much time I can devote to this whole “racism” thing.
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I DON’T CARE AS LONG AS I GET TO HAVE A GO AT THE GREEKS!!!!
It might give them better ratings. With so many artists boycotting Eurovision, the line-up this year is feeble. I used to go through the playlist barely without skipping, now only a handful of songs are interesting.
Example of the boycott affecting the choices. From the 16 artists competing in Portugal's nationals final, only 2 said they would not boycott, guess who is representing PT, by televote, in Eurovision now? And the (lack of) quality shows. Put them side by side with any harmonic group from Eurovision, and it feels like when they had a regular guy competing in the swimming Olympics. They have no charisma. They cannot interpret the song, it is supposed to be about love and longing, but they just look and sound tired and confused on the stage. I don't worry much about the quality of vocals because usually competitors improve that a lot by the performance day, but still.
Anyway, Lemmyvision is way more exciting!
Ok but the father ted writer is dogshit too
Only one of them, and not the cast and crew as a whole.
I would have gone with Mrs. Brown but I'm here for it all the same
Ah father Ted is miles better and does have it's own song contest episode.
You're probably right I actually haven't see it lol
Oh you're missing out. It's honestly fantastic.