Gary Jones writes:
With thoughts on Damo and Ivor The Movie and how poverty porn has become the new acceptable blackface…
FIGHT!
Previously: Gary Jones on Broadsheet
Gary Jones writes:
With thoughts on Damo and Ivor The Movie and how poverty porn has become the new acceptable blackface…
FIGHT!
Previously: Gary Jones on Broadsheet
How the flip can they stretch that for a feature….good jaysus.
I thought the whole point of Damo & Ivor was the it mocked both types? It wasn’t very good, but it was equal in its p***taking.
Never matched Paths to Freedom.
Plus, ‘poverty porn’? WTF.
I thought it was widely acknowledged that mid-level-salaried workers are cash-poor while the low-paid and unemployed seem to get by just fine with a fair few scores in their pocket, wha?!
+ 1
Paths to Freedom is top 3 Irish shows for me.
Slagging off the rich and powerful =/= slagging off the poor and vulnerable. I don’t remember it being mean spirited but I can see why some people wouldn’t have been comfortable with it.
Who funds, writes and produces this poop? I mean seriously folks – this is public money.
This scum must be named and shamed.
Isn’t he Dr Quirkey’s son?
I think he is…
Like a young Kevin Myers me thinks. Aim low, like Fintan O’Toole said of Myers the other day.
Christ…
I feel like I’m missing out that I don’t really get offended easily. It seems to be quare popular
I’m offended that you’re not offended, you must be a cis-male hetero white guy ….
oh wait, so am I…. last time I identified.
what’s the statute of limitations on that kind of moosetache?
Using gifs with black people is racist now, Ted.
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs/amp
Ain’t nobody got time for that
Yes, The International Left Club had a meeting last week and made a *Teen* Vogue writer our president AND we gave her the power to declare how we all think.
So to recap, if someone who works for Teen Vogue says something is racist, the whole world is now legally obliged to agree with her. So sayeth The Left.
*jazz hands*
The Left has fostered a culture where his kind of thinking is encouraged, don’t think you can just shift blame that easily.
You made me click.
Ivor biggun indeed.
is it just me or is that an SS logo on the jacket ?
I think the mess under his nose might confirm.
That’s the “complainant’s” drawing. His interpretation of what he sees…
Something like… Nazis, Nazis everywhere
He signed it anyway :)
Poverty Porn?
Time to end it. But it’s too late.Two words: Frank McCourt