Terry Gilliam on diversity: 'I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian'

The Guardian ^ | July 5, 2018 | The Guardian

[confederatecarpetbag]

Gilliam was commenting on the row over diversity triggered by the BBC’s unveiling of its new comedy programming, announced in June, at which the BBC’s controller of comedy commissioning Shane Allen emphasised the corporation’s commitment to “the stories that haven’t been told and the voices we haven’t yet heard”

[confederatecarpetbag]

BBC has a "controller of comedy commissioning." Such a tile would make George Orwell envious.

[Blogatron]

That’s the only way you can get a job.

[Yaelle]

MLKJr’s whole thing was to judge people for their character. Now the only thing that matters is skin color / culture.

Worshipping “diversity” is as intelligent as worshipping shopping bags.

[Skywise]

Terry, Terry, Terry...

This is the world YOU helped create.

[dfwgator]

BBC has a "controller of comedy commissioning."

Sounds like something Python would have come up with.

[Salamander]

[Eddie01]

There is a Reason we told the British to go F. themselves.

God they suck A.

The first #walkaway movement.

[Fungi]

Bingo! We are here: “If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224. "Diversity" has become the catch word for all their identity politics. "Diversity" trumps over everything, including truth.

[bigbob]

Maybe you should have read what he actually said:

“It made me cry: the idea that ... no longer six white Oxbridge men can make a comedy show. Now we need one of this, one of that, everybody represented... this is bullshit. I no longer want to be a white male, I don’t want to be blamed for everything wrong in the world: I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian... My name is Loretta and I’m a BLT, a black lesbian in transition.”

He added: “[Allen’s] statement made me so angry, all of us so angry. Comedy is not assembled, it’s not like putting together a boy band where you put together one of this, one of that everyone is represented.”

[xp38]

It’s a department within the Ministry of Silly Walks.

[a fool in paradise]

Gatekeepers and taste makers and everyone wonders why everything is a re-envisioned piece of bland derivative crap

[Salamander]

Cleese’s tweet is priceless.

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1009472455310827520

[a fool in paradise]

Terry was an American once

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

A BLT. I want to be a BLT too, with all the modern rights and benefits bestowed upon her, um him, uh... it. A black lesbian in transition. I want to be one, and get all the govenrnment benefits that come with it. Let me clarify... I want to “self-identify” as one, not actually become one.

Well folks, I am still unching on popcorn, enjoying my front row seat watching Western Civilization commit intentional suicide, no longer baffled how Rome fell because I watching it live and in real time.

[EdnaMode]

And I’m a 102 year old hippopotamus.

[Salamander]

The whole Python troupe was the most politically incorrect thing on earth, at the time.

[x]

Sure, now that the "I'm Harvey Weinstein's pal" thing isn't opening doors for him.

Pretty soon most people will probably think Terry Gilliam is the Reverend on The Walking Dead anyway.

[McGruff]

Have no idea who Terry Gilliam is.

[Salamander]

They turned me into a newt, but I got bet...oh, wait.

I’m a salamander now.

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[silverleaf]

Yeah if I was job hunting or applying to school, thats what I’d tell them