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If made today - disaster PC nightmare


There would only be about 5mins of this brilliant original remaining! A remake would be-

a female Jesus,
a female Brian,
various PC castings which resemble little of the authentic biblical era,
none of the great original script or genius writing team
many misandrist feminazi statements and
weird 11th A-gender-led dictats.

What a vile disaster is happening

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Here's something weird and ironic about the movie: it unwittingly predicted "woke" culture, in all its stupid, illogical, pointless, puritanical, idiotic glory. Take a look at this article:

https://areomagazine.com/2019/09/13/from-satire-to-reality-monty-python-predicts-woke-culture/

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the article reads like a high school, right wing, politics student's anti left rant.

Woke thinking is often characterized by a belief in something akin to original sin (white guilt). It promises a path to virtue and redemption and has all the characteristics of a cult. This cult revolves around the sacred values of diversity, inclusion and equity, particularly in relation to race, gender and sexuality (identity politics). Defined in opposition to white patriarchy (good vs. evil), these totemic values are safeguarded by a high priesthood in academia and the media.

The comments are much more entertaining. and sane.

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Nothing right wing about condemning the woke cult! That's a true liberal magazine, I already posted a link to it.

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One of the comments is interesting:
until fairly recently, the left has always criticized the left. and done it better than the right could ever hope to. this helped it to sort out the best ideas from the worst, and made them the more trustworthy of the wings. but now that is over, and terrible ideas are proliferating unopposed within an increasingly thick left wing bubble. this is why the left are no longer liberals, just conservatives with different identity allegiances.

wait , is liberal and left the same thing?
I keep meaning to make a chart showing the positioning of left / right / lib / dem / republican etc

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But that's an accurate explanation of "woke". Your juvenile name calling is simply because it hits home and triggers your anger that anyone would dare question or criticize your ideology.

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Heres a formula so you can make endless more "This movie couldnt be remade!" threads.

1) pick a movie with some white men in the lead roles

2) go on crazy rant spouting all your favourite imagined horrors scenarios like: women / midgets / lesbians / coloured people/

3) sprinkle on all your favourite caveman buzzwords: "PC Gone mad" , "Feminazi" , "Woke" etc

..and you got yourself a ready-to-go racist mysogenistic blinkered sexist Post!

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Looks like we've got a another fascist who reports posts that offend him!

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If you mean me I didnt report android! I didnt even get to see the post , it was gone when i came back.
Come back android! repost!

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ah , thanks for the update.
Perhaps they should have chosen a different name for themselves , like "The terminally enlightened" or something

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I love this because it is so true lol, it's a formula for a perfect incel post!

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It was a disaster pc nightmare when it was released.

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