That’s your perspective though. There may be Royalists who are deeply saddened by Philip’s passing. Each to their own.
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That’s your perspective though. There may be Royalists who are deeply saddened by Philip’s passing. Each to their own.
Christ! Like I said, I know little about his backstory so was just interested. Doesn’t sound great.
I’m no flag waving, royal loving, duke of E worshipper but I knew exactly what kind of numbskull, pathetic shit flinging would be in this thread before I even opened it. Didn’t disappoint of course.
Sad the queen has lost her husband, that’s all. He wasn’t perfect but he was her love and she will miss him.
Yeah, very interesting perspective. I guess I can see why a high profile member of the Royal Family would be held to a higher standard, even if that reeks of hypocrisy.
It's a stupid take. Nobody is saying everyone has to shit on him, but likewise you shouldn't expect everyone to pay respects to someone who said lots of racist and horrible things. Do you think it's ok that he made fun of people in wheelchairs? I ask about that because that's nothing to do with "that's just how it was back then", like people are saying about the racist things he said.
Trying to catch up on other news is becoming almost impossible on the main stream channels, I understood it yesterday but now it's a bit too much.
So was he a racist or not? What's the consensus?
I think you are taking my sentiments totally out of context. No one is asking you to pay your respects, and you’re free to do as you wish. I’m not saying making outmoded statements is okay, but it is understandable coming from people of a certain age – you’re ultimately a product of your era. It’s obviously important to call that out and try to educate people to update their perspectives and attitudes.
Yeah, I wish they’d report more about Covid.
He might have done both?
I am almost 30 years younger than Prince Philip. But I can easily remember a time in England when it was very rare to see someone who was black skinned. And while we may try to pretend otherwise, it is a natural human reaction to react to others who are 'different'.
And thankfully, we have and are learning to treat others as equals in every sense.
So the question is whether ones behaviour to others is either Overt, or Covert.
Prince Philip has had the opportunity to tour the world and I am sure that has educated his views.
So in my own view, no, he is not a racist.
But he may have said things that others may perceive as having his views a function of the past.
It depends on who they are. I've no problem with a billionaire who started from nothing and achieved that status through hard work and good judgement. I'm sad DMX is gone because he was a nobody who made himself a somebody. I'm not going to blow sunshine up the arse of some bloke who was simply born into the right family though, especially one who thought that made him better than everybody else.
I don’t disagree but the case could be made for every person that has died that they were a cnut.
Peoples negatives get focused on a lot when someone passes, I find it bizarre but I assume it’s mainly as a response to public outcry and sadness.
The guy went around making jokes any opportunity he could, especially terrible ones at the worst times. I really doubt he would give a shit people are making some now that he's out of the game. He would probably love it. In that sense I think it's disrespectful not to make a joke and some of you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Whoopsie, I must have accidentally copy and pasted your response in the Meghan and Harry thread that you directed at the people who felt she was being unfairly treated because of her race.
Sorry. You were telling us about the offensive remarks that some people in this thread have made. Please continue.
This is off-topic, but I have a problem with all of them. In fact, I dislike this common theme that "if they worked for it it's more acceptable" because if deviates from the base issue which is wealth and power distribution, not how it was achieved. It's a system that blindingly accepts this to be normal that it's in check here.
Mind you, it's not specific to the individuals and it doesn't mean I would mistreat or show personal antipathy to them if I met them. It's human nature to accept the good that comes your way, if I accidently became a billionaire I'm pretty convinced I wouldn't burn the money or give it away. I just strive for a society where they cease to exist and "work" politically for that goal, by voting and expressing my ideas.
Most people throwing harsh jokes at Phillip would treat him as naturally as another human being if the opportunity arose. The bitterness isn't directed at his person, but rather at the husband of a Queen.
We are a long way to go, when the majority of the British supports these people right to exist.
That's a lot of words to say "yes but it doesn't bother me".
But that's the thing surely, most people know he wasn't a goodie and he also probably wasn't particularly bad, and as such don't really have a lot of interest in him dying or not. It's an interesting footnote in history at best. But if you're one of those people then you won't be posting on social media about it, so I don't see why it should be surprising that the social media reaction is polarised.
I'm just enjoying the memes tbh whilst trying to avoid the patronising news stories.
You'd have to live under a rock in the UK to have never heard of him. It's pretty hard to escape coverage of the royal family.I’m well aware there’s plenty of people that feel a connection to the royals. There will be a large amount of, mainly younger people, who would have probably never heard him (actually him, not in the crown) talk, until they watched any of the programmes yesterday.
I’m someone who actively dislikes the royals, so I’m probably just seeing it from my point of view. Like you, I’d rather just ignore it, not even sure why I opened the thread
I said never heard him talk.
Not really. Pretty much no one not even people who like to read about this family gave a shit whether he was dead or alive for the last few decades. He was a nobody and it's pretty easy to see loads of young people never actually known him or even seen how he looks. He'll be forgotten after a couple of days of tributes/good riddances.
He also has lyrics such as these:
"And if you got a daughter older than 15, I'm [going to] rape her," DMX intones. "Take her, on the living room floor, right there in front of you/ D*ck action seriously, what you wanna do?/ Frustrating isn't it? Wanna kill me, but I'm [going to] kill you/ Now watch me f*ck just a lil' while longer please, will you?"
Can't believe I fell for that, you're clearly just better at this than me.
It's not that people can't handle life being complicated it's people wanting to have fun on the internet. It's very funny that a 21st century racist monarch who spent the last 40 odd years looking like a skeleton from jason and the argonauts died. Yet for some bizarre reason a bunch of posters who ironically enough complain about cancel culture are now suddenly pissing their pants and are trying to make the discussion as boring as possible.
Tbh if Philip didn't want people to laugh at his death then he should of made some hip hop bangers in the early 2000's.
''Oh, won't somebody please think of the Royals''
Not better, I just have waaaay more time on my hands
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56696887
It’s safe to say there are a lot of people, charities, organisations that do care that he has died. It’s just nonsense stating otherwise.
Oh dear.
What an embarrassing lack of awareness
Anyone that finds another person’s death ‘funny’ is a strange person in my book.
That dead person was someone’s grandad, father, husband and so on. You don’t have to like the man but revelling in someone’s death is fecking weird to me.
I love Where The Hood At but the first verse is homophobic as feck.
Maybe, but I've hardly heard any of them talk. They're usually just walking into a building or waving out a car window.
He clearly wasn't a nobody. Millions of people know who he was.
Was surprised he had members of the public crying about him though. Thought that was just a Diana thing, although I'm sure it'll be x100 for the queen.
Again DMX was a controversial figure. I liked some of his tunes and they were more-less acceptable at the time. That’s doesn’t mean I can’t criticise him but also mourn his death because again, a person is dead — it’s never nice, unless it’s Hitler or something,
I should have taken the DoE award at school. It was all the kind of stuff I was doing anyway before I became a teenage idiot.
We can only hope they redouble their human sacrifices to keep her alive, so that we don't have to endure the months of mourning when she dies.
Get her bathing in virgins' blood. If she hangs on at least four months I hopefully shouldn't be living here so I'll miss it all.
That is weird too. Crying over a 99 year old slipping away in his own bed. I mean that’s over the top. I think an acceptable behaviour would be to have a glass of rum (him being a navy man) if you liked him that much.
The ideal scenario is bank holiday for her jubilee next year, bank holiday for her death (after the jubilee), and then a bank holiday for Charles' coronation. I think I can probably stomach the mourning then.