John Cleese Does Not Care about Being Cancelled! By Charles Taylor (Florida)
British comedy legend John Cleese is one celebrity who has been attacking the woke, politically correct elite. Recently he said that whites, especially the Irish had been slaves, at an event at Austin Texas. He did not get out much on this as he had his microphone taken away from him by a woketard.
“British comedy legend John Cleese had his mic taken by woke co-panellists at an event in Austin, Texas, after pointing out that British imperialism was not unique and that the British, too, were once slaves.
Cleese, of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame, made the remarks at a South by Southwest festival even titled ‘John Cleese in Conversation’, according to a highly-slanted Hollywood Reporter article.
Riffing on an alleged joke about colonialism by Daily Show correspondent Dulcé Sloan, who is black, Cleese is said to have remarked that people “forget the British Empire was the basic political unit of organization for 6,000 years – the British didn’t start [colonising].”
Indeed, colonisation and empire-building was conducted not only by the British, French, Russians, and other European peoples, but by non-white civilisations such as that of the Arabs, which spread by conquest from the Arabian peninsula through the Levant, North Africa, and — for a time — Spain and Portugal, and that of the Turks, who originate in Central Asia but have now almost totally displaced the predominantly Greek, Christian civilisation of Anatolia and East Thrace, including the former Constantinople — lending credence to the old adage that “many a true word is said in jest”.
“History is a history of crime. 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 asked his co-panellists, who supposedly attempted to change the subject.
“[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed,” Cleese went on, noting that “We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans for 400 [years], from about 0 to 400” — apparently earning a testy response from Sloan and fellow co-panellists Dan Pasternack and Ricky Velez.
“You’re really going back,” Pasternack is said to have rejoined, as if the abolition of slavery by the British 189 years ago was a recent phenomenon.
“This is getting so uncomfortable,” Velez added, facetiously asking if this was “[the new] Dave Chappelle special?” — a reference to the hugely popular black comedian who has been under sustained fire from less popular but more woke comics for joking about transgenderism.”
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