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Heterodork's avatar

What an amazing letter, nailed it. Who do these people think they are?

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Kate E. Deeming's avatar

Well quite. Artist as saviour not in service that is for sure. They are there to look down and judge

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Certex's avatar

But that's just a reflection of the modern Scottish arts scenes. They're just middle class freak chic geek cliques,  full of women and ethnic and sexual minorities (not trying to be right wing or reactionary by saying that, it's a straight fact) who guzzle down grants doled out by their sniffy wanker pals who despise the Scottish 'racist and misogynistic and homophobic' white working class (especially men) as 'beneath' their 'progressive' selves.

In reality what they are is government-paid-and-approved courtiers, pimping and pumping out warmed-over American intersectionalist shite (of the type so loudly publicly approved by Sturgeon - she basically shaped and destroyed an entire nation's cultural tastes with her Oprah-book-club keech) as morally didactic 'art', the more racially and sexually and sexuality-divisive the better. Having a half-American accent is the new Scottish media Received Pronunciation, dahlink, don't you know? So non-patriarchal and arch and anti-heteronormative and racist-working-man-superior, luvvie! Artistically, this country is now an embarrassing fucking faux-American joke. Tragic and disgusting and pathetic.

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Kate E. Deeming's avatar

Oh I don’t disagree 🤣🙈 deep irony is despite being white female American I was booted out for having ‘the wrong think’ - they eat their own eventually!! It is quite stupid.

Funny story remember when that ‘World War Z’ was filmed in Glasgow and they wanted it to look like Philadelphia? They posted for extras and were looking for ‘people who looked like Philly folk’ - so I applied thinking I’d be a shoe-in (how many ACTUAL Philadelphians in Glasgow??) and despite having a masters in drama and despite *actually being from Philadelphia* I was not hired (!) It’s all surface stuff. And for whatever reason I was not it 🤣 as if there is a ‘Philadelphia look’.

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Certex's avatar

As somebody who genuinely was a zombie in a George A Romero movie (therein lies a story), I speak as an expert:

"Oh dahlink, you simply do not have that rare Phillyesque ambiance I require in a zombie who will be onscreen for two seconds. You will aesthetically sully the CGI-filled crowd scenes in my timeless Oscar-worthy Hollywood blockbuster production! Off you pop! NEXT!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfxLIyf_IY

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Kate E. Deeming's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Certex's avatar

Interesting. These gay activists are probably never going to have children themselves, so they are using the children of others to act as their own surrogate children, trying to raise them as 'their own' ideologically. Total narcissistic self-projection and pathological revenge behaviour. They are being the parent they wished they'd had. No wonder they despise the idea of family. Pure solipsism and righteous-presumption madness.

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Kate E. Deeming's avatar

Total narcissism. I call it the ‘absent father syndrome’ - walking in with big fancy presents and proclamations as if that is anything but a way to promote themselves. Kids need parents who do the boring stuff, the thankless and the day to day. These individuals do not understand that. How many of these kids know how to do *stuff*, clean their rooms, offer to help their families? Probably none.

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