While looking up some history about Morecambe & Wise, I inadvertently found an article claiming that someone had complained to the BBC not so long go, saying how offended they were over a sketch M&W did way back in 1968!
The sketch included references to the IRA, but also included M&W mocking Irish accents and Irish jigs. In fact it the whole sketch was described as “complete and utter racist rubbish!”
To their credit, the BBC’s Editorial Complaints Unit did not uphold the complaint!
But it really gets on my tits how sometimes the Complaints Unit, or some other media watchdog, can cave in to a handful of complainers moaning about a “offensive” scene from decades ago, and then have the scene cut or dubbed. While on the other hand, the great majority of viewers just saw it as a joke and
nothing else – another classic instance of the tiny minority overruling the majority!
Moreover, by the same token, those same moaning cunts probably take great pleasure in taking the piss out of “gammons”, “white working class males” and other modern-day easy targets because they don’t see any of it as offensive, sexist or racist, but fair game!
https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2021/04/15/48223/morecambe_and_wise_cleared_over_racist_irish_sketch
Nominated by: Technocunt
