Danny Baker sacked

[The Geezer]

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...cist-tweet-monkey-meghan-markle-a8905886.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48212693

Here's one for GD

He sends a tweet referring to the royal baby with a picture of a well dressed couple with a chimpanzee.

I don't see this as a bit of banter but clear case of racism, why do we still in this age refer to black people as apes ?

OK, he has apologised and deleted the tweet why did it even cross his mind to think it would be acceptable

 

[The Geezer]

It's only racist if you take it as being racist. Otherwise it's just a monkey in a suite.

It's a ape not a monkey

Seriously, how else would we look at this as a society ?

 

[The Geezer]

attacking them for "wrongthink" and posting things that the mob don't think you should is utterly dystopian and terrifying in itself

Why do you label this as "wrongthink" ?

Surely, black people are no closer to being apes like the rest of us ?

 

[The Geezer]

Personally I wouldn't have thought about the racial connotations either.
I empathise with the guy of it literally didn't cross his mind.

Is another step in the slope of not being able to say anything because someone might be offended because of some tenuous link.

Have a read of this post and it may shed some light on your 'tenuous link' - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32706039

 

[The Geezer]

So a lifelong football fan and pundit who has no doubt witnessed first hand racist monkey chants and bananas being thrown at football matchs couldn't see the racist undertones of the photo he choose to post ??

That is a very good point.

 

[The Geezer]

No he didn't. He didn't decide to go and post something racist out of the blue to destroy his career.

People are calling it racist because they are terminally offended and like to point stuff out of social media for attention.

So in his decades of going to football matches he’s never heard monkey chants or bananas being thrown at black players ?