- 'Can you get any more targeted than blowing the dicks off Hezbollah?'
Posted by Ian M
on August 23, 2025, 4:31 pm, in reply to "Graham Linehan goes on the sh!t list..."
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With right wing scumbag Brendan O'Neill, really letting his hair down (from 44:00): BON: Um, I did want to ask you kind of in relation to that about the state of comedy and um, we've got the Edinburgh Fringe going on and um, it seems to me that not much of note is happening there. It doesn't seem to be that interesting. It all seems pretty woke. Most strikingly um, some Jewish comedians have been cancelled from the fringe. Um, supposedly because they've got problematic views on the IDF and Gaza, etc. But I think it's because they're Jews and it's not seen as good to hang out with Jews anymore. I mean, that really is a new low, isn't it? Even in the kind of cancel happy world of modern comedy, that's with this is pretty rotten stuff going on right now. GL: It is. Uh, and you'll forgive me for smiling, but I was delighted to be the first to be so kind of thoroughly cancelled by the Edinburgh Festival to the extent where I couldn't even find a venue and had to do a gig outside Hollywood. But now they've come after the Jews. So I'm actually delighted to be in such company. Because this is another thing I wanted to say on Joe Rogan but I didn't say but like when the printing press was invented I'm not sure if I did say this. Did I say this about the printing press? Did I mention the printing press? BON: I don't think so [he did - IM] GL: I had it in my mind to say it. But when the printing press was invented, after that there was a hundred years of crazy religious sects, uh, violent pogroms, uh, and anti-semitism, you know, anti-semitism ran rife and so on, you know. Now we've had the internet and the exact same things are playing out, you know, like ancient, ancient hatreds, misogyny and anti-semitism. BON: Yeah. GL: And they are suddenly spreading like wildfire around, uh well certainly around the cultural industries. And I'm just proud to be among their number. I think that the way Jews have been treated in the UK was very familiar to me. Like you go from them [ie: Israel] bombing - which, they had to respond to the atrocity - and everyone complains about that. And then they have the most targeted attack in history on the leaders in Hezbollah and everyone complains about that, and it's like, well, how is Israel supposed to defend itself? Like, can you get any more targeted than blowing the dicks off Hezbollah? I mean, that's pretty damn targeted. And it was done deliberately because they didn't want to kill them because they wanted to put a strain on the economy. That is next level genius. Civilian light - I know one or two innocents were killed - but as a military operation that was very targeted, and it only hit the people it had come for and they still managed to tear the Jews apart for it. So I don't think that that's proper analysis. I think that's anti-semitism. And I think the reason it's happening is because the internet has opened up the doors to it. And just as the printing press did, we're going to get a period where like what was happening with the printing press was that everyone who had a crazy theory about the Bible suddenly had a chance to write it down. Right? So with this case, we just have every single anti-semitic theory, every single anti-female theory, uh just kind of, you know, swimming around the airwaves. And it's the kind of misinformation that outlets like BBC Verify have no interest in. BON: Yeah. GL: So, because BBC Verify is probably filled with, like the rest of the BBC, people who hate women and people who hate Jews, you know. BON: Yeah. GL: So yeah, I think that that's what's happening. I think we're getting the same things playing out. There's going to be a period of absolute insanity and until we actually grab a hold of it and think, well what will happen next that we have to guard ourselves against in this connected world, we're going to be constantly subject to these periods of madness. BON: Your point there about the return of the two medieval hatreds, hatred for women and hatred for Jews is so well put, and I've noticed that myself because if you look at left-wing demos over the past few months. There was the demonstration against the Supreme Court ruling at which people were openly calling for the death of women, the death of terfs. That same weekend, there was a march against Israel at which people were waving bloody shrouds and accusing the Jews of killing babies. And you just think this is just the return of ancient medieval hatreds against both the female sex and the Jewish people. GL [nods in agreement] ***** I don't know what kind of brain rot infects the anti-trans ppl to transfer standing up for women to making apologias for Israel's genocidal atrocities in this way. Is it just tribal, and they're focused on attacking perceived enemies? Or is it latent islamophobia coupled with an atheist, western worldview that perceives Islam as an enemy of women and 'western values'? Quite a few people have pivoted in this way, eg: Shahrar Ali and Naomi Wolf: https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/archive/1702420069.html https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/archive/1714658789.html Ugly as hell in any case... jeers, I |