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Commenter Bronson presented this on Amanda Meade's Tv web site for The Australian: "And this is the guy that criticized Benny Hill for becoming sexist? What a hypocrite and an unfunny just one at that. Viewing reruns of Benny now it was all quite innocent in contrast to this foul mouthed unfunny tosh."

Spot on. Enjoy Hill's sketches and they absolutely do seem fairly innocent in retrospect. I'd even say they are whimsical, almost sweet. According to many who realized him properly, which include some female cast members, Hill revered the opposite sex. He was just a bit naughty, that's all.

And it wasn't just Elton who slammed Hill. British feminists waged a relentless war in opposition to the comedian, routinely lambasting him in the media and sending him mountains of dislike mail. Contemplating this history, why has there been small or no this sort of criticism of Elton from notable activists and commentators now?

Well, there's the argument that Elton's display wasn't condoning or endorsing these attitudes it was critiquing them. But watch some of the clips of it readily available on line. If there is a satirical subtext there at all it is really 50 percent-hearted, and thoroughly obliterated by the gross-out gags.

The other defence: No one's definitely offended any longer. "Political correctness" is just a myth dreamed up by conservatives.

But the finger waggers are just as petty, punitive and relentless as they actually had been. Only previous yr the Advertising and marketing Expectations Board deemed an ad for Ridiculous Domains starring Pamela Anderson to be sexist and demanded it be taken off air. And most a short while ago a campaign versus dissent waged by gay marriage advocates resulted in the web site On Line Opinion shedding two of its key sponsors, IBM and ANZ.

And it's not as if the assumed police never get stuck into light entertainment on Australian Television. The Jackson Jive scandal on Hey Hey It is really Saturday arrives to thoughts. When a bunch of Aussies (who ended up of mixed race heritage on their own) set on blackface, they have been accused of racism across Australia, and the planet! Confident, it was a faux pas. But it was additional to do with American sensitivities than nearby types and the substantial media storm it made was out of all proportion to the scale of the initial transgression.

Given that tiny ruckus you could possibly feel that Elton's troupe would stay obvious of racially tinged humor. But there's a part in Planet Earth in which the character Elaine Front, having just created a fast menopause joke about one particular of the cast members, introduces a further as a "proud Aboriginal." When the younger lady explains that her heritage is in fact Aboriginal, American Indian and African American, Front blurts: "So, a bit of a mongrel."

Imagine the response if that had been carried out on Hey Hey.

I personally never consider any of this ought to have been censored, or even condemned. It was all in jest. I am sick of the reflexive howls of "racism!" by individuals who can't muster a coherent argument and largely want to promote their own spurious sense of moral virtue. But I am bemused by the inconsistency.