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Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces
- Thread starter Rodrigues solitaire
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Damn, I hope the Queen is okay. I feel for her as I remember how it was when my grandpa passed after being with my grandma for 68 years. It's fucking devastasting, and usually doesn't bode well for the remaining spouse. I hope she can try to keep in good spirits after this.
lol
There's some weird shit in the official twitter, shame it wasn't around for more interesting historical times.
He was a racist, sexist, homophobic piece of shit who lived in luxury off the taxpayer in his life and he continues to be these things now he is dead. I'm not going to celebrate because I just don't care enough but all these pearl clutching takes about ghoulish comments or lack of class can fuck right off. If you don't know why people don't give a fuck he's dead, here's a small sample of his cuntery:
There are a shitload more examples out there if you want more. He was not a good person but we owe him respect anyway because he went and died, like literally every other living thing ever to exist? Nah.
I mean look at that last example in the tweet about "you'll go slitty eyed if you stay here much longer" to British students in China. Haven't we just had a bunch of news and discussions here about anti-Asian racism and the damage it causes? But somehow all is forgotten and/or forgiven because the old racist had the grace to die?
There are a shitload more examples out there if you want more. He was not a good person but we owe him respect anyway because he went and died, like literally every other living thing ever to exist? Nah.
I mean look at that last example in the tweet about "you'll go slitty eyed if you stay here much longer" to British students in China. Haven't we just had a bunch of news and discussions here about anti-Asian racism and the damage it causes? But somehow all is forgotten and/or forgiven because the old racist had the grace to die?
I'm not even celebrating his death because I don't personally like to do that kind of thing, but celebrating the death of a bad person is not a ghoulish action.
im supposed to be respectful when people who spread hate die? why?
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They didn't have to say anything and he was an actual adversary.
Public figure in most British people's lives for the last zillions of years, a common connecting cultural thread whether you're a fan or not, it makes people think about their own lives too and the years gone. And people can empathise on a basic human level that someone lost their husband after 70 years of marriage despite them being privileged and problematic. 99 percent of anyone who dies today will have some kind of view that would not fly with modern sensibilities.
He was an old racist goat and it's fine that you're not arsed if he died, I'm not exactly distraught a 99 year old man died either and am not looking forward to the media circus and the jingoism for people who don't comply. But the inability to even fathom why some people might feel differently is emblematic of modern day discourse.
There's not dancing on someone's grave and then there's undue respect for undemocratic institutions and politics etc.
I feel sorry for people mourning their loved one, but he was an unpleasant man to put it politely. I won't be mourning or celebrating.
The BBC will call it 'a momentary lapse in judgment in a life characterised by service to the Nation'
Yes the DoE scheme is a fantastic one, couldn't recommend it enough.
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Some Era posters will really be like: "But he deserves some empathy you fucking ghoul", when Weinstein dies. I'm sure a heck of a lot of you shed a tear when Epstein killed himself, lmao.
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A lot of Era users consider themselves to be good stand up people. Pride flags, strong left wing views, posting on Era in support of progressive issues etc. Then make a complete show of themselves in threads like this over, and over, and over again.
Not as well natured and mannered as they like to think, and definitely don't like being called out on it.
Some of the posts in this thread are a disgusting embarrassment and at this point it is expected. Ghoulish is absolutely the right term.
At least he got to see the country of his birth's 200 year anniversary of its liberation from the Ottomon Empire .
1. Posting on Era isn't a sign of being a good, stand-up person, it's a gaming forum
2. No strong left-wing views involve mourning a bad person
3. What do LGBT people have to do with this, why do you have to drag us into this?
4. Having good manners and being well-natured are not considered particularly leftist
5. You're talking a lot more about how bad it is that people celebrate the death of a bad person than the bad things Philip did, I just think your priorities are a little funny
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Are you an example of people who are born stupid?
Supporting pride and other civil rights movements actually has a point though, unlike pointless platitudes towards famous bigoted tax leeches.
I see no contradiction between pride flags and being happy at the deaths of evil people. It's not terribly polite, but oh well, I'm sure the spirit of decorum will go on.
Drawing that comparison, on the other hand, is pretty fucking ghoulish.
Being casually racist or sexist in a privileged position is not the same as being a serial rapist/child abuser, and there being a moment of reflection for the husband of a head of state is the not the same as mourning a disgraced Hollywood mogul or whatever the fuck epstein was. Unless you have evidence to the contrary then, let's make an effigy of him too.
A ridiculous take from all angles
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It's such a ridiculous thing to say too. Like, a lot of LGBT people were neither well-natured or polite while advocating for their civil rights, does that make them less leftist as a result?
I think it would be even more disrespectful to be hypocrite and say meaningless shit like RIP than staying ture to yourself and
your views and say that a person was a POS, even shortly after that person died.
Why should I lie to myself?
Yeah, it's pretty weak.
This is a forum not a book of condolences, if people step over the line then the mods can deal with it.
People like to outwardly display their belief in progressive values, whatever it is. LGBQT+ included.
I just don't know how some folk reconcile their support and belief in such values, then jump into threads like this to drop their hot take about great it is that someone is dead.
I believe you will find that the house of windsor's riches came from years of exploitation of people in the UK and abroad.
It's funny to see people get all hand ringy about a rich 99 year old white man, when thousands of people are dying in the UK because they can't afford food.
I don't claim to be a wonderful person, but you know what I'm not? A pearl clutching arsehole who polices how other people feel about an extremely wealthy and privileged man who repeatedly insulted and denigrated them and everyone like them solely down to the colour of their skin or the shape of their "slitty" eyes.
Have a fucking word with yourself. You're not being a morally superior upstanding citizen right now, you're telling PoC to shut the fuck up and not be honest about how they feel about the death of a hateful piece of shit who looked down on them all his long miserable life.
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Yep, should be plenty of bans coming from this thread if the mods stick to their own rules.
What is wrong with you that you consider basic human rights equivalent to being decorous about a racist parasite who actively worked to harm the people subject to his wife? And did some good things on the side, too, a bit.