Posted on 03/12/2022 8:43:28 PM PST by algore
Comedy legend John Cleese had his microphone confiscated at the South by Southwest festival during a comedic discussion in which he suggested Italy and France owed historic reparations for enslaving Brits.
The Monty Python icon, 82, was riffing with other comics in front of the crowd in Texas when he talked about the 'competition' between cultures over who has been more oppressed by colonisations throughout history.
Pointing to world history being 'a history of crime', he added: 'It's a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker and it's always been that. It's deeply, deeply distasteful.
'But to pretend that one lot were worse than another – you do know the British have been slaves twice, right?
Cleese explained: '[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed. We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans from about 0 to 400.'
Despite the event being labelled a 'comedy panel', his remarks sparked horrified reactions and an awkward environment for those in attendance.
At one stage Cleese even had his microphone confiscated by American comic Dulcé Sloan, who said she did it to 'save a comic whose career I respect', per The Hollywood Reporter.
'And now you saved the colonizer,' Pasternack said. 'I saved a comic whose career I respect,' Sloan fired back Cleese rebutted claims that the British Empire was the first to colonise communities
The British comic insisted England was owed 'reparations' from both Italy and France, referring to the historic invasions of the Romans, and 1000 years later by the Normans under William the Conqueror.
'I want reparations from Italy', he told the stunned crowd. 'And then the Normans came over in 1066... they were horrible people from France and they colonised us for 30 years and we need reparations there too, I'm afraid'
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Years ago, when “reparations 1.0” was making the rounds I brought up the same point about my Irish ancestors demanding reparations from the British. The answer was usually “well that’s different!” The next question from me- “how and why is it different?” usually went unanswered.
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Well……he’s right. He didn’t even mention the reparations they are owed by Scandinavians……..
Well being of Polish heritage, I got dibs on reparations from Sweden.
Perfect. LOL!
And do not forget Libya - the post-Gadaffi Lybia is a major slave trafficking hub, no little thanks to Mme HRC.
And vice versa! ;-)
This is an article from the Guardian (2019) that purports that currently 1 in every 200 people in the world are slaves.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200
This. Is. Pathetic.
This comedy would have been a rip roaring good time when I was a kid. Who in their right mind would be offended by this stuff?
“Right mind” being the operative phrase here. We’re doomed.
So we should be wearing orange instead of green?
They’ve already been paid via Danelaw..
How dare he question in satire form the sole validity of non-white victimhood!
Irish were slaves in the 1600’s. They were sold to the English West Indies
“ If the current narrative is that People-A enslaved People-B, then any talk of the fact that People-C enslaved People-A is considered horrifying.”
When people who do whatever government tells them to do pretend they are not slaves they lose their sense of humor. Collectively. There is truth in humor. Above all, these people must squash the truth.
John Cleese is not a slave. He bought his property decades ago therefore he owes nothing. Most Americans, and most attendees and managers at SXSW, owe on their homes. They believe that they must do what they are told. Tgey don’t consider downsizing or otherwise breaking free. They don’t know they are slaves. Cleese’s joke goes over their heads.
Didn’t know that, though I did know Viking enslavement of the English and the English enslavement of the Irish and the muslim enslavement of Europeans.
>>Muslims pirates raided coastal european towns and took whites back as slaves for hundreds of years.<<
According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and The Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_on_the_Barbary_Coast
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_01.shtml
Reality and truth don’t fit the narrative.
“To the shores of Tripoli.”
Our first war on slavery
way to go john
He is correct, of course. Demanding reparations for past issues paid by current population opens the flood gates for all kinds of reparations being paid.
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