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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or you could fight in the roman army like the gladiator
“Now, they would be canceled...”
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“Let’s not argue over ‘who murdered who’”.
“What have the Romans ever done for us?”
What was merely “grinnable” years ago has sadly become Reality.
“In truth, about 300 years back, almost everyone was a slave, a serf, a bondman, or subject of a monarch. Freedom was exceedingly rare.”
And will be again if the Great Resetters have their way.
sparked horrified reactions and an awkward environment for those in attendance
LOL
I find that funny as heck. Awash in a sea of stupid. I bet some even over ate in their misery.
Oh I agree we should forget it all.
But if they want to play, play.
There were right at 338.000 Africans imported into North America, mostly by the Portuguese. They were, generally speaking, already slaves of other Africans, and had been for generations.
Millions of Irish were rounded up and forcibly enslaved.
The far larger participants in the slave trade were the islands and Brazil. They kept up the trade for 75+ years after the USA outlawed it.
Facts are, the transatlantic slave trade was started by black men enslaving other blacks and ended by white men who were horrified by it.
Slavery in Africa remains alive and well.
The reason London is the capital of the UK is because the Romans declared London the provincial capital of their new “Colony” Britannia.
“Try to tell that to the young people of today.”
He’s not wrong
Sounds like the Middle East and Arabian countries. They imported tens of thousands of black slaves from African slave dealers.
They have no problems today with descendants of those slaves raising hell because back then they castrated all the males.
I think the first person to do a general emancipation was Cyrus the Great. But as soon as he was gone (or maybe a little before) slavery came right back.
That so much of the world has now quit doing it is down right stunning.
And probably will not last.
“Confiscate”. Is that Left-Speak for steal?
Funny and absolutely true. When do us white slaves get our reparations?
Indeed Biden finishing what Obama&Co started full speed ahead.
Being right is its own reward.
Being right is its own reward.
Our word “slave” does indeed come from the ethnic name Slav, but goes back long before the Turks were involved in the enslavement of non-Muslims.
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