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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“Keeping Austin weird”
Saint Patrick was BRITISH
Something to wear on March 17th if you are feeling a bit contrary. :)
It infuriates the Left when one of their own has to remind them of real history.
To the comfy chair with you !
Nonwhotes and woketards will not ever consider white european peoples victims of anything, even though they certainly were. Muslims pirates raided coastal european towns and took whites back as slaves for hundreds of years.
He should have told them the word slave comes from Turks enslaving the Slavs
John Clese should not have had his mike taken away for making a somewhat wry (albeit true) remark, but he was perhaps gratified to know that at age 82, John can still say things that will shock, confuse and rattle people.
Every performer wants to be noticed. He’s the only one getting any press at all for this little chat session.
"Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it" is certainly true, but it's also true that "Those who do study history are doomed to be silenced by those who do not, but who have preconceived notions about it."
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.
Cleese has become something of a cranky old-man, but by God, he's earned it.
What about reparations from the Scandinavians? And I suppose the Germans, who came there earlier, but there already was a population.
Awesome. Someone with some knowledge of history crushes idiot American Leftists educated in government schools, and of course they freak out about it.
“Muslims pirates raided coastal european towns and took whites back as slaves for hundreds of years.”
Including a young Captain John Smith, later of Jamestown fame.
They invited John Cleese, they got John Cleese.
Lol. Good for him.
Just saw the Four Yorkshireman skit after a decade.
Luxury!
Britain is also owed reparations by Africans. In centuries past, the Barbary pirates plundered English ships, enslaving their crews, and even raided coastal communities. One night in June, 1631, Barbary pirates raided the English settlement of Baltimore, Ireland, and carried off most of its inhabitants to slavery in Africa.
To listen to the CRT proponents, you’d ‘ve thought that the white colonials here established the institution of slavery.
Thankfully she didn't sit on him, she's at least 300 lbs.
Well the English got the Irish back.
There were far more Irish slaves imported to North America than African.
Now, as a Jew I want my reparations from enslavement in Africa.
Yes, we can’t let the world know that non-blacks have been slaves in the past.
There were actually very few Africans imported by the British to North America. What they did import they mostly sent to the islands.
And I think you should go for it.
Everybody has ancestors who were badly treated. We need to make their descendants pay.
Or we could just let it go and live a happy life but what is the fun in that?
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