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Ed Gamble stars as an animated coffee bean? I wonder if that means we can hope to see Hoffman do an Off Menu in return?

Another great episode. Maisie practically vibrating with rage over the tugging task had me in stitches.

I don’t think Bezos was a blocker here, allegedly he was a fan of Stargate. I remember that being specifically called out when Amazon acquired MGM.

Funny that Marty Sliva was just talking about Mario Paint yesterday in his DK Bananza video.

Also, rare entertaining NSO drop trailer. More of this, please.

It works on my two-year-old, but the older one definitely wouldn’t fall for it.

Maybe I’m argy because it’s a hot sweaty armpit of an evening. You can call me a twat but you are also now trying to paint me with “you agree with the Nazis” after I roiled against antisemitism so maybe introspect a little on that. To avoid shouting past each other, here are my beliefs on this matter and maybe you can tell me if there’s anything here you actually disagree with.

• I believe constructing a hierarchy of discrimination is not just a waste of time but an entirely negative action. Discrimination takes many forms and arguing who has it worst doesn’t do anything to counter discrimination. Instead, it creates animosity between discriminated-against groups who could instead be comparing notes on better ways to counter discrimination in all forms.
• I believe Dianne Abbott is more interested in playing with hierarchies of discrimination than she is in opposing discrimination in all forms. I believe this because she said that she thought black people had it worse than Jews, and when this upset Jewish people, she was not interested in understanding why (see: my point about animosity), she faked contrition, and she put out an apology that we can now all see as worthless because it was only there to allow her to stand again as a Labour politician. She has sown animosity between Jews and black people, and those of any other creed or culture who seek to oppose discrimination.

Your devil’s advocacy was for the question “is she wrong” and my answer is even if she’s right, she’s making things worse for everyone.

If you’re playing devil’s advocate then they’re not your words, you are advocating for the worst version of an argument. So why would it be a problem for be to mention satan? Unless those are actually your views, in which case you aren’t playing devil’s advocate.

You didn’t deny the holocaust, but your argument is flawed. The nazis thought of the Jewish people as a race. They attempted a genocide on that basis. They were being racist. Proudly so.

I’m not here with honest intent? Abbott was suspended from the Labour Party for what she said. Multiple organisations called them disgraceful. She herself retracted her words, hamfistedly blaming them on a drafting error, and apologised for them. But I’mm, random internet man, am the one who’s arguing in bad faith?

Now she has said that she doesn’t regret that period and clearly her apology was not in any way genuine contrition. She offered empty platitudes to crawl back into the party she claims to love while not in any way actually reflecting on the things she’s said.

Let’s look at her actual words, shall we, satan?

Tomiwa Owolade claims that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people all suffer from “racism” (“Racism in Britain is not a black and white issue. It’s far more complicated”, Comment). They undoubtedly experience prejudice. This is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they are interchangeable.

It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice. But they are not all their lives subject to racism. In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships.

She talks about sitting at the back of the bus. Rosa Parks took a stand in 1943. Concurrent to this event, Jewish people, of the Jewish race, were being exterminated in the holocaust. If Diane Abbott is more interested in arguing for a dictionary definition of racism that includes the suffering inflicted on black people but excludes the holocaust, than she is in trying to understand why this would be incredibly offensive to the Jewish community, she can get in the bin.

And if you’re more interested in watering down accusations of antisemitism to mere “anti-Zionism” then you too are more interested in playing with dictionary definitions than you are in calling out actual racism when it actually happens and you can do likewise.

Fortunately you’re just playing devil’s advocate, eh?

For those skimming headlines: these are the same comments that she was previously suspended for before the election, and which her retraction of was a key part of her even being allowed to run as a Labour candidate. She’s literally gone “that stuff I was kicked out for and had to grovel for forgiveness for? Actually I don’t apologise”.

I’d start to question her faculties but she’s always been a disaster.

Seems that Rachel Maskell should be added to that list of suspensions.

Just thought this was a cool little crossover of an internet person I follow and a show I still get surprised by Americans watching.