I didn’t know he was a Tory 😔.
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I mean, the panel is entirely correct - in the sense that a bunch of radical, extremist, out-of-touch, intolerant miscreants are totally trying to shut down free speech in Britain at the moment. They are total snowflakes with thin skins who can’t tolerate anyone criticising or disagreeing with them.
These anti-free-speech vigilantes call themselves ‘the Tory party’ and here are several examples of them at work over the last year or so:
Cancel culture is alive and well among Rishi Sunak’s Tories.
What they are upset about is the disprove of what they say brings on them. We are all so mean! They should be able to say their horrible thoughts without being called horrible people! /s
Edit: English
Imagine calling yourself “the most cancelled person in the room” while you’re on stage, giving a speech
Bunch of jokers
At the conference of the party currently in power, lol. It’s like how people like GB News and Tory MPs keep complaining about the establishment oblivious to the fact they are the establishment.
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I’m pretty sure from his comedy writing he didn’t used to be a Tory. Back in 2014 during the “gamergate” era he was firmly on the progressive side of things. Something broke in his brain a few years back over trans issues, and he alienated everyone from his fellow writers, comedy actors and fans and just kept doubling down to the point no one wants he other than the worse elements of the nasty party.
Something broke in his brain a few years back over trans issues, and he alienated everyone from his fellow writers, comedy actors and fans and just kept doubling down to the point no one wants he other than the worse elements of the nasty party.
Yes, he fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole when the only people who’d give him the time of day were the Terrible People. Appearing at a Tory conference is a clear sign how far he has fallen.
It’s all very sad as he’s one of my favourite comedy writers of recent years.
Up to the IT Crowd he was a legend in UK sitcom writing, Father Ted, Black Books and that show will always be classics even if he’s gone bonkers.
I’m often the odd one out in thinking this, but I thought The IT Crowd was generic, derivative shite, and I was dismayed that people of the calibre of Chris Morris were involved with it at the time. I cannot make my way through a whole episode.
There are two of us! I thought I was alone
I thought it was the anti-Big Bang Theory. The nerdy people I knew in real life were much more like Moss and Roy than any of the 1980s stereotypes in BBT.
His trajectory is a lot like that of JK Rowling and Dave Chappelle. Born comfortably off (but not super-wealthy), socially liberal by default without needing to think very hard at all about it, very successful because they are genuinely good at what they do, torpedoing themselves because they’re unable to deal with mild criticism over some lazy-minded transphobia.
An episode of The IT Crowd from 2008 has been criticised over its transgender plot line.
This is what kicked Linehan off. Instead of listening and learning, he buried himself in self-justification and ended up palling around with the far right.
The odd thing is that there was little chatter over that episode when it came out, I’ve only seen people talk about it after Linehan went bonkers.
For what it’s worth, despite the problematic elements, I still think it’s a well written and funny episode. I’m smart enough to know that what’s played for comedy on TV isn’t applicable to real life or actual trans people.
I think covid broke quite a few brains. That Scottish historian from Coast has gone full mental jacket
Transphobia broke his brain long before covid.
Just looked him and his controversies up. very controversial. seems like a prime candidate for Dunning Kroegger
I didn’t know he was a Tory 😔.
You seem disappointed, as though you wanted this bigot not to politically align himself with a collection of bigots.
You what? How are you projecting this from a single sentence? Grow up.
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from a single sentence
In both comments, your emojis work wonders.
Mate, what the fuck is wrong with you? Why are you picking random fights based on your poor reading skills? I used an emoji therefore I am sad he’s a bigot and he’s a Tory?
What the actual fuck? Are you 14?
I used an emoji therefore I am sad he’s a bigot and he’s a Tory?
No, you’ve misread the original comment. I said you sound disappointed that Linehan has aligned with the Tories. I used the phrase “a bigot” to refer to GL, because he is; I used the phrase “a collection of bigots” to refer to the Tories, because they are.
Using those phrases in those constructions does not imply anything about what you think or know about the Tories or GL. The phrases are plainly in my voice identifying them by what you can infer I think is factual: their bigotry.
Your sadface emoji generally connotes something like disappointment. So my comment is essentially: oh, you’re really disappointed that this guy is aligned with the Tories? Why, when he is a bigot and they are also bigots? Why would you even want him to be aligned with a party you do support?
picking random fights based on your poor reading skills
Irony. Helluva thing.
In their defense, I read this the same way, like you are upset he is a Tory because of the emoji use.
Need to be extra careful about emoji use apparently because it portrays my deepest held feelings and political leanings in a unicode character… or, you know, it’s a ruddy emoji 🤷.
Oh shit! What does it mean now I’ve used the shrug emoji? Oh lord! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
So I can just bang out random words because they don’t have meanings either. Why use the emoji if it doesn’t have meaning? You used a disappointed face emoji, to express disappointment. Like it or not language evolves and this is how our language has evolved thanks to technology we use emojis to express feelings. But what you’re saying is I can just toilet boat coast bananas these are just ruddy words if we choose to ignore any meaning associated to them. If we are stripping the meaning from emojis we may as well do it to words too. Have you any idea how ridiculous you sound.
To make it simpler you could just explain what you meant by the disappointment face emoji, as it is obvious stuff is being lost in translation here. A lot of us read it as you are disappointed, though we also don’t understand why you would be disappointed that a bigot aligns himself with a party of bigots? The previous poster seemed to be asking for clarification in your statement, yet you chose to attack them for it.
Jesus Christ people are massively aggy here. It’s just an emoji. Stop trying to read into it. I literally could have chosen any other emoji.
yet you chose to attack them for it.
You interpret this as an attack? Ok I’m out this is wild!
being cancelled by getting an entire write up in the bbc
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Comedy writer Graham Linehan has told a free speech event at the Conservative Party conference he was “the most cancelled person in this room”.
The panel argued that free speech in the UK was being shut down by groups of people who were out of touch with the general public’s views and increasingly intolerant of opinions they did not share.
Mr Linehan claimed there had been a “soft ideological coup of nearly all our major institutions - the police, academia and even the NHS” and it needed to be stopped.
Mr Linehan was speaking at a fringe meeting - an individual event that takes place around the main party conference.
The writer has been involved in a number of acrimonious social media disputes with trans activists, and in 2020 was permanently suspended from Twitter which claimed he had breached rules on “hateful content”.
An episode of The IT Crowd from 2008 has been criticised over its transgender plot line.In 2020 Channel 4 removed it from its streaming service saying that “in light of current audience expectations, we concluded it did not meet our standards for remaining available… and it was not possible to make adequate changes”.
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