Jeremy Clarkson should be sacked

[glenn forger]

people who say"Well, black people use the word" should also be wheeled out and shot for being too thick to understand context. Have the black rappers previously "joked" about drowned Chinese people? Called Mexicans "lazy"?

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sack-jeremy-clarkson?bucket=&source=twitter-share-button

 

[hoopdriver]

people who say"Well, black people use the word" should also be wheeled out and shot for being too thick to understand context. Have the black rappers previously "joked" about drowned Chinese people? Called Mexicans "lazy"?

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sack-jeremy-clarkson?bucket=&source=twitter-share-button

I see. And you in your enlightened state will engineer the gene pool - cleanse it so to speak - to root out any who do not share your views on speech, society and context. Hmmm. Now where have I heard this political-philosophy before...?

 

[vernon]

Everyone knows he's a tart and he does not impress many.

He impresses and entertains enough viewers to make the program very marketable here and overseas.

 

[glenn forger]

I see. And you in your enlightened state will engineer the gene pool - cleanse it so to speak - to root out any who do not share your views on speech, society and context. Hmmm. Now where have I heard this political-philosophy before...?

No. Your post is a load of bum gravy. A rich fat white man jokes about young Chinese women drowning. Why defend that?

 

[MarkF]

ye gods....

Deliberately Provocative Celebrity Nearly Says Something Racist Shock.

Yes, I've just watched the TG footage, it was foolish that that rhyme was used, somebody should have spoken up, star or not. It was a freudian slip and it's fuss over not much at all. It's all about the speaker being Jeremy Clarkson.

I used the word "hefty", it was 3 decades ago but I remember it like yesterday. God knows why I said it, it was the last word I would ever have wanted to use, but out it popped anyway. Relationship was soon over..............

 

[hoopdriver]

No. Your post is a load of bum gravy. A rich fat white man jokes about young Chinese women drowning. Why defend that?

Absolutely. More people should be like you. Come to think of it, if you had your way, they all would be.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Perhaps the context of something being identified as sounding wrong and ending up on a cutting room floor only to be raked up and analysed by a sensationalist rag two years later could do with being examined.

 

[glenn forger]

Good idea, the context is it was said by a man with a very long history of making snide, disgusting racist remarks. Good point.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Perhaps they're hacking his phone now to record any reactions.

 

[glenn forger]

Why choose that particular poem? Can you think of any other nursery rhyme that has that word in? He's a sniggering schoolboy, pushing his luck, flirting with horrible racist sentiments to get attention. That's a risky game.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I think it's time to give Nigel Farage the Top Gear presenter role.

 

[Archie_tect]

He certainly can manipulate the media to boost his programme's ratings.... and, considering that's his job, you have to admit he does it very well, whatever you think of his ethics as a celebrity personality.

 

[glenn forger]

I think it's time to give Nigel Farage the Top Gear presenter role.

Farage's Garage. Come and have a good rummage in Farage's garage.

Ew.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Why choose that particular poem? Can you think of any other nursery rhyme that has that word in? He's a sniggering schoolboy, pushing his luck, flirting with horrible racist sentiments to get attention. That's a risky game.

It's the first rhyme that comes into my head when I want can't choose between two things.
Oh no!! I'm racist!!

 

[glenn forger]

It's the first rhyme that comes into my head when I want can't choose between two things.
Oh no!! I'm racist!!

Context, old darling. Have you a long history of making racist remarks?