Said Ricky Gervais, in his new Netflix special, "Mortality," quoted in "Ricky Gervais Uses Netflix Special To Declare Victory Over 'Virtue Signalling' Elites Who 'Find Anything Offensive' — And Reveals Golden Globes Gag He Bottled" (Deadline).
Also: "The most annoying thing about virtue signalling is people being smug about having the morality of the age. You’re what you’re like because of where you are and when you are.... I’m willing to admit that if I’d have been born 300 years ago and I was white and wealthy, I’d have probably owned slaves...."
And then — I'm saying this based on having watched the show — he proceeds to fake-fawn over himself for being a particularly benevolent slaveholder. He virtue-signals within the slaveholder role. And the implication is that's what today's virtue-signalers are doing, praising themselves within the standards of the time but blind to the larger picture.
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I watched this Gervais offering last night and it had me laughing the most I’ve laughed in a long time. Absolutely hilarious.
We watched the robot movie with millie ricky bobby. Moral if the story is put down your fucking phone. Then I texted my nieces and nephews about it, then watched cat videos for an hour…
People are going to look back at us (should we survive long enough) and think how barbaric it was for us to eat animals. Presently, talking as a guy who just had the stake at Waffle House... because I live in the present. Let tomorrow worry about tomorrow. I have enough to worry about today.
Social desirability is in many ways a commodity. Acquiring it is often possible at low cost., and it's intangibility makes it untaxable. You can sometimes become socially desirable by doing genuinely good things, but the low cost approach is to simply say the things that you imagine a socially desirable person would say. Ricky G gets this.
I’d take the under on Lem’s prediction but I love to eat animals and won’t be around to collect…
Two posts about Emma Specter this morning?
They deserve every ounce of contempt
Now that they giving an award to dicaprio for that execrable film
"Elites Who 'Find Anything Offensive'" Not really. Just anything that offends prog sensibilities or disrupts the prog narrative. Nick Landman/Charlie Kirk/Brigitte Bardot/Bibi smears are fine.
People are going to look back at us (should we survive long enough) and think how barbaric it was for us to eat animals.
People are going to look back on abortions and think how barbaric that was. They will do so because medical technology will have reached a point where both men and women will have easily accessible, very reliable control over conception. Kind of the way industrialization made the value of slaves for large scale production obsolete.
I'm not convinced people will stop eating animals. They're so tasty. Have you had bacon? It's delicious.
He'd have owned slaves in 1625 - LOL. Not unless he'd gone to the Carribean and survived the sea voyage, pirates, yellow fever, etc. etc.
More likely Ricky would've been cobbler in London selling shoes and making people laugh with his witty asides.
Just weird how Anglo-Americans go to slavery and blacks at the first opportunity. Out of all the American/English in 1830, i doubt if more than 1 percent owned slaves in Jamacia or the USA. But they have race on the brain.
Gervais is funny. But the he stays away from all the 3rd rails. And he's a liberal/leftist. So, he pushes back - but its safe pushback.
“And then — I'm saying this based on having watched the show — he proceeds to fake-fawn over himself”
But, was he funny?
“And then — I'm saying this based on having watched the show — he proceeds to fake-fawn over himself for being a particularly benevolent slaveholder.”
Gervais: “Put your money away, boys, this one’s on me.”
Well the royal navy was intercepting the trade and was moving on the ashantis (the premier slavr trading empire ) next to dahomey
It’s always these sort of educated, middle-class, privileged, elitist, sort of people telling ordinary working-class people what they can and can’t do and say and laugh, not realizing how important comedy is to ordinary people.
Your last paragraph seems to self-identify you as a member of this group, Althouse.
The Muzzies still own slaves. But it serves the slaves right, for being Islamophobic.
" It’s always these sort of educated, middle-class, privileged, elitist, sort of people telling ordinary working-class people what they can and can’t do and say and laugh..."
I suppose that it might be a little bit of a social burden to have been born into a working class background, to have working class loyalties ingrained into you from a young age, and have too high of an IQ to really fit in, and to have the insight to see through all of the bullshit of the people who claim to be the "betters" of the working people they abuse in a thousand ways themselves.
Imagine if modern women had to give up their Regency novels, their Jane Austen movies, because most of the fabulous wealth and those sumptuous estates women love to vicariously enjoy were built on the strong backs of the enslaved in places like Jamaica.
Nah! We will just throw some black actors in as upper class British and ignore all of that downer stuff!
If I'd lived then and there, I would have had slaves too. And I would have killed them. Not on purpose, but because slavery is hard, like gardening. If you don't know the right way to do it, it gets out of hand really fast and all those healthy slaves you bought at Slave Depot quickly wither and die.
I was really impressed though, when I toured My Vernon and I saw how good and efficient George Washington was at both slavery and gardening. Truly, a great, successful man of his time.
Yes bridgerton was very silly
Also: "The most annoying thing about virtue signalling is people being smug about having the morality of the age. You’re what you’re like because of where you are and when you are.... I’m willing to admit that if I’d have been born 300 years ago and I was white and wealthy, I’d have probably owned slaves...."
If you aren't a billionaire today then you would not have owned slaves back then.
You would not have been elite enough.
And then — I'm saying this based on having watched the show — he proceeds to fake-fawn over himself for being a particularly benevolent slaveholder. He virtue-signals within the slaveholder role. And the implication is that's what today's virtue-signalers are doing, praising themselves within the standards of the time but blind to the larger picture.
A modern woman and feminist posted this in her most righteous indignation.
It was what one would call a capital investment
And then — I'm saying this based on having watched the show — he proceeds to fake-fawn over himself for being a particularly benevolent slaveholder. He virtue-signals within the slaveholder role. And the implication is that's what today's virtue-signalers are doing, praising themselves within the standards of the time but blind to the larger picture.
Those of you criticizing Althouse seem to have misunderstood what she is saying here.
But if you have to explain the joke...
"Those of you criticizing Althouse seem to have misunderstood what she is saying here."
Yep.
If I'd been back in 1625 I would not have owned slaves. Plenty of people back then thought slavery was wrong. Or had zero desire to live in swampy disease infested Jamaica. And if you lived in VA, you could've hired some white indentured servants.
But here we are talking about the white man and poor slaves. What other people do this? Anglo-Americans are so weird.
Those of you criticizing Althouse seem to have misunderstood what she is saying here.
Oh, I think I understand perfectly well.
Do you see yourself in his comedy,ann?
Are you elite... or working class?
Pick a team?
AA says Gervais equates phony better-than-you wokesters, celebs,leftys, and politicians with a disgusting rich pompous slave holder who assumes to be better than you.
Makes sense.
(I'll show myself out the door. Save your alleged commoner the trouble...)
Althouse can do "bits" too, you know.
Leave Larry out of this!
If I was alive
In Sixteen Twenty Five
My slaves would thrive
And that's no jive!
I read it the same way, FullMoon.
Jesus you people are dense. I saw Ricky in LA next to the Staples center about 18 years ago. Very funny guy. Of course he's a radical atheist as well so you might not want to trust him on his anti-wokeness. You people are just lucky that he didn't decide to pick on the particular type of wokeness spawned by the karens of religion, instead of slave owners this time
He doesnt suffer fools and hollywood is full of them
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