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Demonizing the poor is the new fat shaming!

Who here has seen the pilot of Black Mirror.
The whole point is that humans are naturally Inclined to watch disgusting stuff even if it disgusts them.

The BBC is a rather mad organisation, not wait panam, the capital, oops typo.

May the odds ever be in your favour.

 motyak wrote:
Although I stand by our television (7, 9 and 10 really) being just garbage.

No argument there.

Though as a nitpick, 1, 11, 72, 73m 90 and 99 now exist, and are also garbage


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 Paradigm wrote:
What I think should be absolutely condemned is the premise of the programme. Ask yourself, why have low income as a qualifier for applying? Is it because 'they're unemployed, so have nothing better to do'? Is it to prove that the little poor people can be useful after all? Because that prize money could turn their lives around (it can't)? Or just because God forbid the rich should ever have to 'prove themselves'? (I mean, they're rich, so they must be important, right?)

I don't think it's completely unthinkable to assume that they might be looking to improve the skills and therefore employability of people who haven't been able to find work. It'd be a bit of a nonsense to open that kind of show up to people who already have jobs.

Now, that kind of show can be handled well, or it can be handled very badly. And it might not even be that kind of show, it might be some really exploitative crap. But you can't just assume it's exploitative in it's very nature.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Who here has seen the pilot of Black Mirror.
The whole point is that humans are naturally Inclined to watch disgusting stuff even if it disgusts them.

The entire series was pretty compelling. The second episode really hits home for me on this particular topic more than the first one though, but I do see your point.

 daedalus wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Who here has seen the pilot of Black Mirror.
The whole point is that humans are naturally Inclined to watch disgusting stuff even if it disgusts them.

The entire series was pretty compelling. The second episode really hits home for me on this particular topic more than the first one though, but I do see your point.

Ehh to me, the second was more about how we are endlessly working towards a goal that just feeds our want for stupid entertainment, while forsaking things real.
The ending though, that ending will stay with me for along time. Why did they give him a spot to rant if it is harmful? Because you need public detractors for the masses to watch, that way they can agree, feel like they have the same feelings, then go about their business.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Poor old BBC cannot win.

They are frequently accused of being the voice of the establishment while the reigning government blames them for anti-gov bias

Seen as snobbish and elitist in their programming the are desired to produce more popular material, then come under fire for deviation from the Reithian principles.

In this case it is a BBC 2 programme so it is' nt going to be populist. I suggest we wait and see what it actually consist of before condemng it.

This is nothing. Come to me when they put on a BBC version of the horrific (and evidently full of criminal) 16 and counting about the religious wackjob family that keeps pumping 'em out (the Duggars). Or maybe you might like a little Honey Boo Boo.

http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/josh-duggar-chilling-molestation-confession-in-new-police-report-59752

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2288050/

Watch these and like me, you will welcome the Zombiepocalypse. Cleanse us Oh Bitey Ones!

 Frazzled wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Poor old BBC cannot win.

They are frequently accused of being the voice of the establishment while the reigning government blames them for anti-gov bias

Seen as snobbish and elitist in their programming the are desired to produce more popular material, then come under fire for deviation from the Reithian principles.

In this case it is a BBC 2 programme so it is' nt going to be populist. I suggest we wait and see what it actually consist of before condemng it.

This is nothing. Come to me when they put on a BBC version of the horrific (and evidently full of criminal) 16 and counting about the religious wackjob family that keeps pumping 'em out (the Duggars). Or maybe you might like a little Honey Boo Boo.

http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/josh-duggar-chilling-molestation-confession-in-new-police-report-59752

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2288050/

Watch these and like me, you will welcome the Zombiepocalypse. Cleanse us Oh Bitey Ones!

Shows like these are the modern day version of the sideshows from carnivals