Mastodawn

"In the Seventies, when my family first moved to this country, we were the target of those comedians. I don’t see a lot of difference between the racist and hostile jokes directed at my family by comedians in the Seventies, and the targeting of the trans community now. If you come from any sort of minority, marginalised background, we’ve all got to have each others’ backs. Prejudice is a contagion.”
Nish Kumar

#Comedy #NishKumar
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/nish-kumar-interview-ricky-gervais-jimmy-carr-b2987362.html

Nish Kumar: ‘The safety of minority groups is more important than whether or not Ricky Gervais likes me’

Ahead of a new standup tour, the peppery comedian speaks to Louis Chilton about anger, punching down, and the state of British comedy – and he doesn’t hold back

The Independent

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shem 3d ago

@junesim63 it's not correct to call people minorities anymore

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c981g43vmmro

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Erin 3d ago

@shemjm @junesim63

"Using the right terms can be important, we don't want to insult and offend people but those terms in my view are only a means to an end," said Darren.

"The work to understand what language might be useful is certainly not as hard as the work that’s involved in addressing racism."

(but I suspect your takeaway from this article, if you read it at all, was just ‘white people are outnumbered’)

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shem 3d ago

@quietewe @junesim63 I just want to ensure that groups that are actually a minority on the global scale get the support they need.

Hungarians for example are a unique group but there are very few of them in the world.

Do they get protections in the UK? Are they included in DEI schemes?

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vksxypants

@shemjm @quietewe @junesim63 Completely meaningless definition. Not a single country or "group" in the world has a population >50%, they're all "global minorities".