Po-faced over blackface

So, two and a half years after last posting, during which period we've seen Brexit, the unbelievably and exponentially growing odiousness of Trump and the concomitant collapse of any remaining global good will towards the United States, the blusterings of blimp Boris and, of course, a global pandemic on a scale not seen for a century and somehow seeming worse than the Spanish flu outbreak back then just because of modern media saturation and the constant babble of analysis and reproaches, what finally gets me to rise from my torpor?
The fact that they've now pulled Little Britain, The Mighty Boosh and The League of Gentlemen from Netflix, and in some cases even from the BBC's iPlayer, that's what. Why? Because absurdist white comedians who have no compunctions about offending all and sundry had the gall to don blackface for some of their comic characters. Therefore, this equates directly to Al Jolson, The Black and White Minstrel Show and dear old 'some of my best friends are black'-style Nazi Jim Davidson doing Chalky back in the dark ages, when TV was still rife with his ilk.
Of course, nope. It has been widely stated that we now have two competing viruses, one medical and the other social, but the latter is not racism. It's the insidious and uncontrolled spread of a belief that the virulently systemic racism of the American police force, and to an extent U.S. society as a whole, is something that people in this country have thus far failed to spot here, but it must be there because racial prejudice does exist here too, and therefore the situation must be rectified. This is still fine when a statue of a slavery profiteer, which should really have been taken discreetly away for 'renovation' a long time ago and then forgotten about somewhere deep and dusty to avoid any anti-PC nationalist backlash either, is thrown into the harbour. Mind you, my choice, and thankfully paralleled by that of some other longer-sighted individuals, would have been to simply stick a big plaque in front of the thing explaining the man's noxious misdeeds in full, and likewise with any of the other statues now being targeted, all the way to Churchill. Attempting to erase all historically significant figures who had shitty character traits is akin to erasing the history that led us to where we are, and that isn't far off burning books.
But locking away the aforementioned comedy shows is indicative of something quite different and alarming: it's simply anti-intellectualism from those unable to differentiate between laughing at people different from us and laughing at ridiculous racist stereotypes, which is all the shows in question do. It's a ban on satirising certain groups in society, for fear of causing offence, and therefore an attack on free satire itself. Chucking the real, unquestioning racism of Gone with the Wind in the same basket speaks volumes about the depth of analysis that is behind these decisions. Presumably, everything by Sacha Baron-Cohen is up next, starting with Ali G. To his credit for once, one-time cheeky chappie turned all-round misanthrope Harry Enfield refused to bow down and apologise for his past blackface characters. If comedians have any political duty at all, it's to mock that which is worthy of mockery, not to preach or educate. 
I don't do protest marches as a rule, as I'm truly lazy and also because I find they easily turn tribal and simplistic, but if we go any further down this path, I'm off on an essential shopping trip to get what I need to make crappy placards.

EDIT: Today, they also pulled the episode of Fawlty Towers where the gin-sozzled Major spouts some racist epithets. So even laughing at racist characters is verboten now. As all his abovementioned comic successors can be argued to have done, John Cleese may have wanted to have his cake and eat it by cleverly lampooning racism while allowing bigots who didn't get that they were the target to believe that they were being represented too, but the point still stands.