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British 'reality' is harsh, baby
By Stone Martindale Jan 23, 2007, 4:38 GMT
Another English shipwreck scene... EPA/MICHAEL LUSMORE
Look out mateys, another Channel 4 reality show is about to bite someone in their ar*e. A second reality show "Shipwrecked" is the new hub of Britannia flavored hubris dished out by a maladjusted contestant who actually said she supported slavery.
Lucy Buchanan, 18, is taking part in "Shipwrecked," where two teams on desert islands compete to win a £70,000 prize.
Buchanan shared that she also hated fat people, and would be happy to see a return of the British Empire (come to California-that's where it is now).
So far there have been 69+ complaints to media watchdog Ofcom, but Channel 4 assuaged the situation, essentially saying she was a sheltered little nunce and was corrected by other contestants.
This is all on the chaffed heels of Celebrity Big Brother that featured the charming Goody and Shetty tête-à-tête that made headlines worldwide.
The verbally combative Jade Goody has been evicted from the reality show.
The BBC reports that on Sunday evening's Shipwrecked show, Buchanan told her fellow mates: "When I look out at what Britain is, it's just a complete mess...Britain's really not Britain anymore. My mind is completely open to different cultures, but I don't think they should bring them to Britain."
She added: "I don't like fat people, I don't really like really ugly people, I don't like it when foreigners come into this country and they don't take on British culture and British values.
"I'm for the British Empire and things. I'm for slavery, but that's never going to come back." Sounds like some fringe American politicians.
When she was tackled over her views by other contestants, she said: "I'm terrible at generalising, I'm really bad. I just don't know any [black people]."
A Channel 4 spokesman said to the BBC: "When Lucy airs her opinions they are immediately criticised, so viewers are instantly aware that her peers find them offensive and unacceptable.
The obnoxious comments are guaranteed to polarize and inflame already weakminded types. "Those who continue to watch Shipwrecked will see, as the series progresses, Lucy's views change as she interacts and is challenged by other contestants."
Ratings, anyone?
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claireJan 24th, 2007 - 12:27:02
A recent, perhaps trivial, example of this kind of intellectual ethnic warfare is the popular movie Addams Family Values (released in November 1993), produced by Scott Rudin, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and written by Paul Rudnick. The bad guys in the movie are virtually anyone with blond hair (the exception being an overweight child), and the good guys include two Jewish children wearing yarmulkes. (Indeed, having blond hair is viewed as a pathology, so that when the dark-haired Addams baby temporarily becomes blond, there is a family crisis.) The featured Jewish child has dark hair, ears glasses, and is physically frail and nonathletic. He often makes precociously intelligent comments, and he is severely punished by the blond-haired counselors for reading a highly intellectual book. The evil gentile children are the opposite: blond, athletic, and unintellectual. Together with other assorted dark-haired children from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and white gentile children rejected by their peers (for being overweight, etc.), the Jewish boy and the Addams family children lead a very violent movement that succeeds in destroying the blond enemy. The movie is a parable illustrating the general thrust of Jewish intellectual and political activity relating to immigration and multiculturalism in Western societies. It is also consistent with the general thrust of Hollywood movies. SAID reviews data indicating Jewish domination of the entertainment industry in the United States. Powers, Rothman and Rothman (1996, 207) characterize television as promoting liberal, cosmopolitan values, and Lichter, Lichter and Rothman (1994, 251) find that television portrays cultural pluralism in positive terms and as easily achieved apart from the activities of a few ignorant or bigoted miscreants.
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