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March 4, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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When In Doubt, Just lie
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It's a strange world when your Twitter activity ends up making the news, especially when you make some kind of offhanded comment that ends up setting the ball rolling for a whole chain of events.
On the 17th of January, Cam Dankula got into a Twitter argument with some Rando, who was being, well, you know, lovely.
The Rando said, he can continue to say whatever he likes.
His freedom of speech is still protected.
He just won't be getting paid for it.
Time to grow up and get a real job, chap.
You can't sit around all day teaching your dog to goose step anymore.
Have you any idea how difficult it is to get a pug to goose step?
The thing can barely zig heil.
Dankula replied with, oh, I tried that.
People like you got me fired from every single job I managed to get by harassing my employees and sacking me.
I guess me using the only method available for me to make money to put a roof over my head upsets you tolerant lefties a lot.
Well, he wasn't wrong, was he?
Because fast forward about a week, and Dankula was offered a position on a BBC panel show to discuss the issues of the day and perhaps give his side of the story.
This is tomorrow's headline from the Scottish Mail: BBC gives TV job to Nazi hate criminal.
That has got to be headline of the year so far.
And that is the most inflammatory headline I have ever seen about anyone on any subject.
Thankfully, Edinburgh News gave us a quick update on the backlash after BBC Scotland quote recruit Nazi dog salute criminal.
Now as I understand it, this was just an appearance on a TV panel show.
I don't think they were actually giving him a job, but if this is what happens when they don't even give him a job, you can kind of see them proving Dank's point when he says, it's kind of difficult for me to actually get a job since you guys are harassing and hounding anyone who might employ me.
BBC Scotland's new digital channel is facing a major backlash after recruiting a criminal who taught his doctor Nazi salute.
Recruiting a criminal.
That's it.
Dank, that's just you, man.
You are a criminal.
That's it.
No more, no further information needed.
It could be that you're Myra Hindley or whatever her name was.
You're the next Harold Shipman, maybe.
I mean, you know, you're just in the category of criminal.
You're all criminals.
Basically, no differentiation between you.
No gradient, no degree.
You are effectively persona non grata.
Mark Meetchin will be allowed to air his right-wing views next month on the taxpayer-funded channel, despite his conviction for a grossly offensive hate crime last year.
What I love about this is it's a right-wing view.
So it's not even far right now.
The BBC in Scotland, and just Scotland generally, is so far to the left.
It's not even far right.
It's just right-wing.
I mean, he could have effectively been espousing like basic bitch conservative views and the blood.
Well, I mean, the right-wing views.
But for anyone who doesn't know, Meachin is basically a libertarian.
You've got to love the way that this is written, though.
The appointment will outrage members of Scotland's Jewish community who already feel vulnerable to what they perceive to be a rise in anti-Semitism across the country.
Calm down.
Meetin's an atheist, not a m.
Glasgow Friends of Israel member and prominent Scottish lawyer Matthew Burlow said that he could not believe that Meachin, who he accuses of making light of the Holocaust, is being given such a public platform.
Look, he's not denying the Holocaust.
He's just saying it's funny.
He said, it's absolutely sickening and disgusting.
Anti-Semitism is a very difficult subject, but we Jews know what it looks and feels like.
I know that anti-Semitism has become very popular, but I don't think that Meachin's politics can be described as a view.
The Holocaust is no laughing matter.
I don't think that Dankula's politics revolve around the Holocaust being funny.
I think that might have been a dark joke that he was making to a few of his friends that happened to us happens to have gone viral because it was funny.
But he added, We are entering a time now where the generation of Holocaust survivors is dying out.
The internet is now becoming a breeding ground for idiots like this.
It's a very great shame.
There's a difference in making fun of Hitler and making fun of gassing six million Jews.
Listen, Burlow, right?
You are setting yourself up for people mocking you.
When it passes out of living memory, these things don't have the sort of emotional weight for people who have absolutely nothing to do with it.
And so, yeah, they view it in a rather more abstract way.
And you can make jokes about these things because you can't point to anyone who's going to be offended by it, who's personally involved with it.
Seriously, though, you probably are going to have to get over it at some point.
So, I mean, why not start now?
Why sooner, not better than later, eh?
Sorry, Gerard.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know, I'm sorry.
So, the BBC Scotland programme was due to air in April and would have seen four people with strong opinions take on the world's most hotly contested topics in each episode.
Except for those things that are deemed too controversial, like edgy jokes on the internet.
And this just goes to show you just how left-wing not only Scotland, but the conservatives are generally.
Scottish Conservative shadow culture secretary, Rachel Hamilton, said that the BBC needed to reconsider its decision to give Mark Meachin a slot on national television.
She said, the promotion of this individual in any BBC programme would seem to be entirely against the BBC charter.
Are you fucking shitting me?
The BBC used to make edgy jokes way back when, before the moral authoritarians took over.
But either way, why not?
He made a rude joke.
Okay, fine, big deal.
He's obviously got, you know, he's amassed to himself a large audience because he's obviously speaking from a position that affects a lot of other people, and they are finding that his message is resonating with them in the same way that mine, Paul Joseph Watson, and all of the other sort of like alternative media commentators are doing.
Why is it that you're so afraid of actually engaging with people like us?
I mean, honestly, I think I know the reason.
It's obviously that you don't have any answers to the things that we are saying.
It's rather hard to position yourself as a defender of human rights while you are actively opposing people's human rights.
In this case, the right to free speech.
If BBC Scotland wants to retain the goodwill of its many audiences, it really should reconsider this decision.
It would be astonishing if the BBC in any capacity was to give a platform to someone convicted of a hate crime.
I can't get over this reasoning, right?
The BBC, I mean, they've probably interviewed dictators around the world.
Dankula makes one rude joke, and specifically it was a joke, and now just nowhere.
Nothing.
He's not allowed anywhere.
This is just some sort of what?
I mean, I don't even know what the argument is.
Just rude.
It's offensive.
You shouldn't do it.
What the fuck is the problem?
We got an even better report on the apparent backlash to Dankula from the Scottish Sun.
Headline, what will he contribute?
BBC Scotland facing backlash from viewers as Nazi pug yob.
Mark Meachin given telepundit role and new panel show.
Yob.
Nazi pug yob.
Love it.
Love everything about it.
This is, it just makes you feel that the media is being completely sane and sensible about this.
And he's not reacting out of hand, especially how they're describing these people as viewers of a show that hasn't aired yet.
In this, they even describe him as a prankster.
Prankster Meachin was fined £800 for the video and has been outspoken, even though admitting he'd rather go to jail than stump up the cash.
They know that he was joking.
I mean, he is a comedian.
He prefaces his video very clearly with, this is a joke, and then goes on to tell this joke.
And they recognise that.
Viewers of BBC Scotland, which launched on the 24th of February, have complained at the prospect of Meachin giving a platform.
One person said, I might have to start paying my license fee again just so I can cancel it in protest.
So there's a person whose opinion on that is fucking worthless, isn't it?
Like, if they're not paying a license fee, they clearly don't watch the BBC out of protest about the quality of the BBC.
And what are you going to do?
Bow to this person?
Well, they can't take anything away from you by their own admission.
And just a quick aside, look at this picture.
Look at this fucking adorable picture.
Oh, evil Nazi yob Pugman.
Brilliant.
BBC Scotland have been slammed by viewers.
What have they got against pugs, honestly?
Yeah, just because pugs have been getting political recently.
Another blasted.
Surely this is a spoof.
It just cannot be true.
They're acting like Hitler is actually being given a platform on the BBC to explain his views.
One commenter said, Ah, Scotland, you can be better than this.
A fourth fumed.
What the fuck?
I haven't had time to watch the new channel yet, but I don't think I will even bother now.
Same old BBC.
Same old BBC.
Yeah, same old BBC.
Typical BBC getting Nazis on to explain what's going on.
One raged, I don't get what the BBC is hoping to achieve in giving Count Dankular a prominent role on a TV show when he's not funny, insightful, or intelligent.
What will he contribute?
Well, I guess you'll never know now, will you?
By cancelling his parents, how the hell would you know what he's going to contribute if you cancel him being on there?
I mean, according to the other article, it was a very robust discussion.
It sounds like it would have been really interesting to listen to, and maybe both sides would have made good points, but we won't know.
Because of you whining censors trying to get people deplatforming, you don't even know what they're going to say.
You don't even know what they're going to add.
You just know that you don't like them because you're a pre-programmed NPC and you saw a Daily Mail or sorry, a Scottish mail headline.
According to his fellow panelist James English, Mark was really funny and a really nice guy when I met him.
Well, that sounds entirely congruent with the Mark Meachin that I know and am friends with.
I've known him for what, what, one or two years now?
And he's been utterly consistent in his personality and kind to everyone that he has seen as far as I've seen.
I don't see why on earth we would even start questioning the guy's character.
He told a joke.
You goddamn Puritans.
So earlier today, Dankula found out that, in fact, he was being edited out of the show.
He says, I 100% expected this.
Even while filming, I was thinking, no one is going to let this air, so this is not a surprise to me.
Can't have people seeing what I'm really like, can we?
But the thing is, no, no, no, no, no.
Editing him out of the show, big brother style, as if he was never there in the first place, that's not good enough.
You know what?
Cancel the whole fucking thing.
BBC Scotland canceled Nazi Pugman Mark Meachin's appearance on New Panel Show after furious backlash from viewers.
Viewers who have yet to see the show.
This is what BBC Scotland had to say.
We have been reviewing our late-night discussion programmes, The Collective, during the edit process.
As with all new formats, robust editorial processes apply.
In this case, we have concluded that it is not appropriate to include Mark Meachin as a contributor.
The two programmes in which he featured will not be broadcast as a part of any series.
It's not that you have reviewed this in your own editorial process independently and thought, you know what?
Actually, we think this guy's a bad investment, you know, after you paid him.
It's that you got a huge amount of backlash on social media from a bunch of far-left activists who harassed you into cancelling it, even though they don't even know that what was said on the programme.
Just be honest.
Just be honest, you bloody liars.
You liars and you cowards and you scoundrels.
So there we have it.
If you had any dreams of seeing Count Dankula on the BBC, they are too scared.
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