Reparations From Rome: John Cleese Ruffles Woke SxSW Panel

Newsbusters.org ^ | 3/14/2022 | Matt Philbin

[rktman]

Ya gotta feel bad for the South by Southwest folks. Just once a year, they want to get together to publicly examine their virtues, hold their shining intellects up for consideration and propose ways they can drag the rest of us mouth breathers up onto their enlightened plane. They want to talk about wind farms and vegan bologna and the “Latina Power Pipeline.”

Most years, it goes off without a hitch and they all jet home to fight for sustainable microbrews or more pansexual Nickelodeon characters. But this year, some knucklehead went and invited John Cleese to be on a panel. The decidedly unwoke Monty Python founder has caused much tutting among elites lately for insisting that people should have a sense of humor, and for defending J.K. Rowling’s heretical opinion about men being men and women being women. Predictably, Cleese ended up playing the proverbial skunk at the wine and locally sourced cheese party.

According to The Hollywood Reporter’s disapproving report, the Friday evening panel was titled, “John Cleese in Conversation.” Dan Pasternack, the creator of “Portlandia” moderated the panel, which also included Jim Gaffigan, Dulcé Sloan and Ricky Velez. The group could only take so much of Cleese’s conversation.

Things were apparently okay until Sloan, a black woman correspondent for “The Daily Show,” brought up colonization (like ya do).

Cleese said people “forget the British Empire was the basic political unit of organization for 6,000 years – the British didn’t start [colonizing].” In other words, colonization and empire are as old as history itself.

He then opened a can of informed historical perspective on the session:

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 3/14/2022, thanks rktman.

• John Cleese has his microphone taken away at South by Southwest festival for saying that Britain should get 'reparations from Italy and France' for Romans and Normans enslaving Britons [03/12/2022]

[Salamander]

Cleese is a honey badger and he don’t care.

[Salamander]

I’m Scots/Ulster Irish/Welsh/Danish/Scandinavian.

I can’t decide if I’m owed a crapload of reparations or need to start paying some of y’all.

Maybe I’ll just take up sacking and pillaging as a hobby, instead.

/Cromwell Cruise Lines ancestral victim

[9YearLurker]

This is a riot.

[Pikachu_Dad]

You can start paying reparations to me. I will accept any and all.

lol