But the point here is a human being has just had his life ruined simply because other humans don't understand the meaning behind his joke. That's where we're at, people are hunting and cancelling comedians, and they try passing themselves off as the good guys.

I dont sympathise. He knew what he was saying and the controversy it would bring him. His follow up tweet was just as bad. He knew the impact this would have.

My fight is against the impact. The impact is facist in nature. A free country doesn't censor its comedians, and as our country is currently censoring its comedians, then we're no longer living in a free country, we now have overloads dictating our lives for us.

Human beings have thoughts, GiRTh, it's just the way it is, it's nature. Are we to start arresting people and putting them in prison for thoughts?

See what you saying but I cant equate the fight for freedom of speech with this mediocre comedian trying to be controversial.

His 'joke' wasnt funny and I doubt he even meant it to be funny. Its was a stupid statement that only someone quite bigoted would have even noticed. He's chose his path and now needs to live with the loss of his career.

I remember in Italia 1990 when Germany scored due to a deflection of Paul Parker. I was in a pub that was rammed and you can imagine the kind of sh*t I was hearing about Parker and his race. It nearly kicked off a few times too cuz I wasnt the only black person there. Its such a shame to see that attitude is still quite prevalent

Actions have consequences.

But the consequences are facist, so I'd vote against those consequences and I would see the consequences as a far bigger danger to humanity than a comedien telling a joke. So for me, the bad guys in all this are the authoritarians who are cancelling other human beings.

the ''comedy is cancelled'' moans are so silly



funnily enough i never hear about this 'cancel culture' in my nation

…I don’t see how he was ‘cancelled’ anyway, surely this descriptive …(…which seems to be social media invented thing…)…manipulates anyway…he chose to use racist language on social media…he chose those words to represent him and if that was a representation of his ‘humour’ then others are also making decisions about how they would like to be represented…his agency no longer want to represent him/because what he’s chosen as a representation doesn’t align with their own choices…and also with any future venues that have been cancelled…the choice to have his act on their premises has been cancelled, he hasn’t been cancelled, he’s just now one of the many comedians that they haven’t chosen…


…this is what one said….and that’s perfectly reasonable, why would any of us pay for a service that went against our ethics and policies….

Chesham Comedy Club in Buckinghamshire announced its intention to cancel his show, writing on Twitter: "I know you won't particularly care, but we at Chesham Comedy club will not tolerate racism in any form so please consider your booking with us cancelled."

…they don’t choose to hire an act that goes against their racism intolerance policy…that’s an obvious choice because he has to make that same allowance for others, that they also have choices in how they’re represented just as he had when he used racist language…it was a ‘that’s me, this is who I am in my comedy, this is an example..’…he gave a ‘sampler’ and some venues have said no thank you, actually….


…just as a by the by, a headline from this morning….

Andrew Lawrence: Comedy club staff threatened with violence for axing comedian’s show following racist tweets


https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-b1883691.html

being banned from social media isn't cancelled, exactly

he messed up big time with those racist tweets


if he didn't go too far with those tweets, wouldn't have been banned, and also even more so wouldn't have been axed from that comedy club


his own fault this

Imagine losing your livelihood for stating a fact.