THAT'S RACIST

[Just_mark__]

It's all about context.

Spook did used to be a word used to describe/insult black people, but, it's actual meaning is ghost, scare or a slang for a spy.

In relation to the TV show "Spooks" being changed, the name of the film "The Madness of King George" is an adaptation of the play "The Madness of George III" but they couldn't use that name because American audiences would want to know about the first 2 films.
There'll always be a slight language difference between the US and the UK and it's a beautiful thing that we should all embrace.

 

[Jupiter551]

an adaptation of the play "The Madness of George III" but they couldn't use that name because American audiences would want to know about the first 2 films.

HAHAHAH no way lol.... :lol:

BTW that was a great film

 

[Mirra]

I totally would have understood he was the 3rd George... not the 3rd film. I'm just glad they aren't making any films about French Monarchs. "Which freakin' Louis is this one about? Oh right."

 

[Just_mark__]

I think it was more of an assumption that the American audience wouldn't necessarily be familiar with the Kings of England rather than all Americans are stupid.

See now that's a good example of racism - "All Americans are stupid" is an outright and deliberately racist thing to say.

My slight hijack of this thread has come full circle

 

[barman07]

I totally would have understood he was the 3rd George... not the 3rd film. I'm just glad they aren't making any films about French Monarchs. "Which freakin' Louis is this one about? Oh right."

I'm waiting for the prequels Malcolm I-IX

 

[Jebbaz]

nigger, spook, jiggaboo, coon, wetback, towelhead, wop, camel-jockey, cracker, beaner, chink ,sand-nigger, kyke.


Everyone nice and offended? Good.

Everyone who's offended really dumb? Yeah pretty much.

 

[Jupiter551]

I think it was more of an assumption that the American audience wouldn't necessarily be familiar with the Kings of England rather than all Americans are stupid.

See now that's a good example of racism - "All Americans are stupid" is an outright and deliberately racist thing to say.

Nah that's just generalisation, not racism. Americans would need to be a racial group to be racist towards them.

I don't think it's unreasonable to say a good portion of Americans seem to be ignorant about most of the world, and even basic world history. Not all, but a lot.

It wouldn't be any great stretch to be passingly familiar with english kings (or even just to intuit from context that George III is obviously a king's name), since even only relating to your own history, your nation was founded from an English colony, your early citizens and forefathers were almost exclusively either English by birth or by descent, and incidentally George III was the specific king against whom your Declaration of Independence was made.

Empires come and go, and I think it's a really dangerous and lazy state of affairs when people don't think they have any lessons to learn from people outside their own society :twocents-02cents:

See if the following quote sounds at all familiar.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Cicero, 55 BC

 

[Zoomer]

See if the following quote sounds at all familiar.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Cicero, 55 BC

:whistle:

You know that quote... is derived from this:

"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."

Which itself was taken from a fictional novel of Cicero's life called A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell.

or so Google says

 

[Eva_ChangeN]

nigger, spook, jiggaboo, coon, wetback, towelhead, wop, camel-jockey, cracker, beaner, chink ,sand-nigger, kyke.


Everyone nice and offended? Good.

Everyone who's offended really dumb? Yeah pretty much.

:lol: Missed ya Jebbi!

 

[Jupiter551]

:whistle:

You know that quote... is derived from this:

"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."

Which itself was taken from a fictional novel of Cicero's life called A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell.

or so Google says

Fine the point stands though that almost everything our society (and ourselves) faces, has happened before to someone else, some other time.

Cicero did say

Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur?
(Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?)