[LeatherTrumpet]

The nation is bursting with pride after England finally beat the Germans in
tournament knockout football for the first time since 1966. The English are
belting out ‘Three Lions’ on repeat up and down the country, daring to dream
that maybe, just maybe this time it is actually coming home.


So naturally, Woke Twitter considers it its duty to attempt to bring the mood
down by taking offence to the song’s co-writer David Baddiel for being on the
airwaves on Wednesday, dragging up a sketch involving him blacking up as ex-
footballer Jason Lee on a fantasy football TV show back in *checks notes*
1994.



Baddiel was invited onto Radio 4’s Today programme to offer his
thoughts on England’s chances and to reminisce about the classic hit, co-
written with Frank Skinner and the English rock band the Lightning Seeds
ahead of Euro ’96, however it didn’t take some social media users long to fire
up the cancel culture mob and get him trending on Twitter, renewing their
outrage over a comedy sketch which was on the telly some 27 years ago.

They even turned on one of their own, woke idol James O’Brien (LBC), who clearly
didn’t get the memo that Baddiel was now public enemy number one and
must be burned at the stake for his unforgivable crime…

Baddiel apologised for the outdated comedy show last year, insisting he
regretted “the make-up and costume, which however much it might have
been in the show’s tradition of dressing up to look like footballers in a silly
cartoon way, was also part of another very bad racist tradition.”

https://foxhole.news/2021/06/30/the-...david-baddiel/

should he be cancelled?

[bitontheslide]

well he is a complete tit so there is that

[Livia]

A Jew blacks up - outrage!
A black man whites up as a Jew - Silence.

[Nicky91]

''The nation is bursting with pride after England finally beat the Germans in
tournament knockout football for the first time since 1966.''

this sentence is kinda wrong


i thought it was for the first time since 1996, our NOS commentator specifically mentioned that, and also notably Southgate whom missed the crucial penalty back then

[Livia]

Eddie Murphy as a white Jew. Am I insulted... of course not, it was meant to be funny. Just like Baddiel was.

[arista]

Comedy

And the silly Woke Fools

[arista]

should he be cancelled?



Of course Not

[The Slim Reaper]

A tweet with 2.5k likes, versus 179 total replies, and not all of them negative.

Just for balance.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

''The nation is bursting with pride after England finally beat the Germans in
tournament knockout football for the first time since 1966.''

this sentence is kinda wrong


i thought it was for the first time since 1996, our NOS commentator specifically mentioned that, and also notably Southgate whom missed the crucial penalty back then

yes and england lost

[Tom4784]

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[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

So another misleading story that's tailor-made to farm clicks from gullible fools screaming 'Woke!' at shadows.

Lets assume every single reply was negative (they weren't), we're still looking at a positive to negative ratio of around 14-1.

Folks more qualified than I am, are welcome to reach their own conclusions

[LeatherTrumpet]

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by arista

Comedy

And the silly Woke Fools

Originally Posted by arista

should he be cancelled?



Of course Not

exactly

this whole Woke thing is doing my head in at the moment as well


Comedy needs to remain for light entertainment purpose and not to be taken any seriously at all

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

exactly

this whole Woke thing is doing my head in at the moment as well


Comedy needs to remain for light entertainment purpose and not to be taken any seriously at all

and it was 1994 not 2021

this woke brigade are the worst i agree

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

exactly

this whole Woke thing is doing my head in at the moment as well


Comedy needs to remain for light entertainment purpose and not to be taken any seriously at all

No one tried to cancel him though, Nicky.

A few people pointed out why they didn't like him, but most were overwhelmingly supportive of him.

[Tom4784]

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[Ammi]

…David Baddiel is someone who has voiced his support for taking the knee and been referred to as woke himself…so the woke person has been self woked…?……is there no end to this wokeness and outrage…?….it’s a wokedemic….

[The Slim Reaper]

Wasn't there a Billie Eilish thread about a week ago, asking for her to be cancelled because she said a slur as a kid? But adults can't be held responsible for their own actions for anything longer than a couple of years

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Wasn't there a Billie Eilish thread about a week ago, asking for her to be cancelled because she said a slur as a kid? But adults can't be held responsible for their own actions for anything longer than a couple of years

…or is it a male/female thing…different standards for females innit mate…?……

[Marsh.]

But why discuss blackface when you can bring up Jews again?

[LeatherTrumpet]

[bitontheslide]

i always take leave.eu sooooo seriously

[Scarlett.]

I forgot he existed tbh