Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge
So they record people, alter the recording, and televise the alterned version, without telling the audience about the change. The show isn’t fiction. How’s this not fraud?
Do they also edit out crosses and stars of david?
Can’t wait to see them edit out all the poppies for remembrance day
A spokesperson for ITV Studios said: “University Challenge is an entertainment quiz show and is made in accordance with the BBC Editorial Guidelines requirements for impartiality.”
If you’re impartial between people who just want to live their life and people who want to eradicate them, you’re not being impartial.
Apples & Pears
King Trump fell up the stairs
Prime Ministers change chairs
Whilst the Epstein Files flair like hemorrhoids on the derriere of whatever King is over there.
Meanwhile, The united states awaits their newest press secretary
The results could vary but I doubt it’ll be anything that Trump doesn’t want to Marry, or contrary.
Did you intentionally rap just now?
and let’s not forget “sex with underage girls”
… also, boys on the side
“what has the BBC ever done for me”
It’s part of their campaign to try and beg people not to abandon the licence fee.
So, what has the BBC done for me?
Erased my culture. There.
The same bbc that once aired Monty python.
SMH
I swear the BBC used to have the best comedies in the world. Monty Python, Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers, BlackAdder, Red Dwarf, I could go on and on and on.
I feel like they haven’t really done anything drastically funny since The Mighty Boosh, which was over 20 years ago now. Inside Number 9 was alright, but gave up its comedic undertone after the first series or so. Red Dwarf has moved to Dave, The Goes Wrong Show was good too, but that was an adapted stage show. Technically The Mighty Boosh started as a stage show too, have the BBC not done any good original adult comedies since the 90s?
I know this is a facetious tangent given everything else the BBC do, but I’m honestly surprised how little anyone seems to notice or care that arguably the biggest entertainment network in the world can’t even entertain its audience any more
There is still some masterful comedy, like Taskmaster and various panel shows.
However the embraceing of the modern, counter culture and edgy things has gone down the drain as directors have boomerified and have things to lose.
You seem to have thought “ah, British thing, means it’s BBC”.
Well I go appreciate panel does like this was the news, qi and would I lie to you. Comedy is not entirely dead in the beeb.
But I wasn’t aware that channel 4 wasn’t part of the main media mogul, so I stand corrected.
Taskmaster is Channel 4, and started life on Dave. BBC has nothing to do with it.
Ah, in that case I stand corrected. I thought all that was part of the been.
The Thick of It? I would say the office but that’s 25ish at this point.
I hate those ads with a burning passion! What has the BBC ever done?
Provided transphobes with a platform. Downplayed Israel’s genocide. Provided Jimmy Savile with victims. I could go on…
death to the british establishment
I disagree with the last one as “Races” aren’t simply a thing to begin with, while genders and sexusal orientations to exist, even if they are complicated.
You’ve probably heard “gender is a social construct” before, so surely you could argue about that, too.
Not really. Genders do exist in biology. They may not always be clear cut (and one animal might have also both genders at the same time) but they most certainly do exist and are the foundation for sexual reproduction which is very much a thing, next to asexual reproduction. Human races are not.
I have a psychology degree, and I’m back in school pursuing a nursing degree, so I’m currently retaking human development. Both when I originally studied it about 12 years ago and today, we distinguished biological sex from gender and its social and psychological components.
Biological sex is absolutely real, but it isn’t synonymous with gender. Biological sex concerns reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, and other biological characteristics. Gender also involves identity, social roles, and cultural expectations.
Children begin learning gender roles and stereotypes through socialization in infancy. According to gender schema theory, by around age three, most children can label their own gender. Around four, they develop gender stability, understanding that boys generally grow into men and girls into women. By around six, they develop gender constancy, understanding that changing clothing, hairstyles, or activities doesn’t necessarily change someone’s gender.
Interestingly, children tend to enforce gender stereotypes most rigidly around ages five to six. By seven or eight, they generally become more flexible and accepting of peers who don’t conform to traditional gender expectations.
So yes, biological sex exists and is relevant to sexual reproduction. But that doesn’t mean the social roles, expectations, and identities associated with sex are themselves biological facts.
no, those are sexes. different thing altogether!
although, tbf, not all languages distinguish between the two…
Fair enough. Then genders are a social construct based on biological features that do exist. While “human races” are a social construct absolutely not based on the biological concept of races.
Even that is too simplistic, intersex people do exist, where there’s biological traits assigned with both genders in one person, from birth
Yes, so what?
No they literally don’t.
You’re thinking of Sexes.
Sex - DNA Gender - Social Construction that ties stereotypes to things that there’s no connection to
Biological sex is a large cluster of traits with bimodal distributions where typically the traits are somewhat close to each other on their curves.
You still manage to get situations like my ex’s mom getting karotyped as XY despite having given birth multiple times
Yeah good point, I was oversimplifying
this claim is only in any way excusable if youre not a native english speaker
you are describing “sexes”
sadly some languages (such as Polish) do not distinguish
on the other hand, if you are aware of this distinction and are making this claim despite that, this is a horrifying take
Yes and no. There are demonstrable differences between races aside from appearance, like medical conditions and financial and social pressures, but they are not so significant as to consider each group a totally different species. And, unlike dog breeds, these differences were not created, they occurred naturally. So races are in fact a thing just as much as genders and sexual orientations are. Pretending differences don’t exist is an irresponsible shortcut. The responsible thought process is more “differences exist, but do not warrant better or worse treatment”
It’s a lesson most children have learned by middle school. Some people are black.
If you replace “race” with “caste” in your reply it would still make sense but you would see how silly you are being.
Labour and Reform: destroy BBC, force them to provide cover for the establishment and then privatise it!
My hatred for the BBC grows with each passing day. I could understand (using their twisted logic) if they were trans pride pins, given their BBC’s status as TERF island enablers, but they were a progress pride and bisexual flag.
They still haven’t forgotten they lost that culture war in their eyes. After this “war on trans” they are hoping to redo the “war on gays” again
The UK should’ve stayed a republic during the Cromwell times. The British monarchy will fall, I’ll tell ya.
Well, Cromwell the issue was that it was an extremist fascist coup by a religious extremist
He literally banned parties, and advocated that instead everyone must go to church and make good with god
I mean, after doing a genocide Cromwell declared his son his political heir… I don’t disagree but it just never had a chance because British people barely knew what a republic was. They literally just had classical-inspired vibes about it.
No joke, I wrote a paper in college that sourced an Enlightenment era English writer who claimed that the English state was a monarchal republic because the citizens had more rights than the French.
As someone who’s ancestors were exiled for siding with Cromwell I agree. But also I wish to purge the monarchist filth from Britain.
The BBC is run by dogshit humans.
We need jungle I’m afraid
return to monke?
Mmm… monke.
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The BBC has always been propagandistic, though in a generally posh way using framing and cherry picking rather than the in-your-face way of the likes of Fox News.
It’s just that it used to be mainly Jingoism (visible when comparing their coverage of International News and the participation of British figures in international gatherings, with that of channels in other countries), some amount of Know Your Place and Look Up To Your Betters, and, of course, Eternal Love For The Royals (or, more broadly, Our Political And Social System Is Perfect).
Meanwhile man award freedom of the beeb for dressing as giant poppy.
Sadly, this supports trump’s claim.
