I didn’t know he was a Tory 😔.
Imagine calling yourself “the most cancelled person in the room” while you’re on stage, giving a speech
Bunch of jokers
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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