Everything is offensive if you try hard enough

subbytna said:
Lots of parents in their 40s now, have bred **********. Professional "I'm offended by-ers" who think they are entitled to say and do anything because mum and dad didn't say no to them when they were young. I see it daily and it bugs the hell out of me.
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The 40's parents of Richard Coles (55 years old) perfectly sum up how accurate your post.:)

In this case the "40 something" is the year his parents were probably born.;)
 
scousers are already hyper sensitive towards anything to do with the Sun newspaper and this particular journalist so this was, I guess, a bit of a perfect storm of people taking offence:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...tigate-sun-column-after-racial-hate-complaint

The Sun has suspended Kevin MacKenzie after Merseyside police said they were investigating a column in which he compared the footballer Ross Barkley, who is of mixed race, to a gorilla.
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so we've got the tenuous Hillsborough link - the worst rag, *that* reporter and apparently it is near an anniversary

and we've got the 'racial' link - even though he is basically a white guy (and no one would bat an eyelid if they made this comparison towards Rooney) apparently because he's got a Nigerian Grandparent then 'it's racist'

and so now the police are going to waste time 'investigating' a journalist for insulting a multimillionaire footballer

oh and now Everton football club have banned sun Journalists in solidarity
 
Can't help but laugh at that, the same people wanted credibility from the sun but when it goes the other way they turn a blind eye to it. How on earth someone can think that's a racial comment is mind boggling.
 
It's a shame because there's about a million reasons to pay no attention at all to Kelvin MacKenzie and/or The Sun without needing to seek out a race angle.
 
Well I'm sure the police will do their 'investigation' lots of people will have to waste time over this answering questions and paperwork will be filed etc.. and then nothing will come of it

it just seems ridiculous that it is even being pandered to, surely some discretion should be used, unfortunately it is in the public eye, has gained some traction in the press and now it all has to be taken seriously
 
Popbitch were hinting at Rebekah Brooks wanting to ditch him anyway (before this latest incident) as he's expensive and seen as a liability for the Sky takeover, hence The Sun chucking him under a bus for a piece that would have crossed an editors desk and been approved. Obviously take a Popbitch story with doses of salt.
 
Scousers sure have cultivated a victim mentality plus a monumental sense of humour failure lately.
While MacKenzie is a prize prat, it's just hoary old British stereotype gag , Scousers are lazy, Scots are drunks, Irish are thick.

It does them no credit at all to be so prickly and childish about everything Sun-based
 
Dis86 said:
It's pathetic. How far back does someone go?
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In the case of a scummy journalist, I'd go back forever.
Not just him, them all.
Half the stories one reads today, or is suggested one reads contain zero newsworthy content.
They deserve all they get.

Who goes as far as to suggest a person reminds them of the empty look a caged gorilla has nowadays anyway?

Did he ever personally apologise for the blaming of Liverpool fans he invented btw? I don't follow the man, nor Liverpool FC, but I recall someone as work stating he had not.
 
The guy might be an a-hole but to say there were racist connotations to what he said is just stretching.
 
It's all down to Social Media - Back in the day, there was hardly any way to express that you were offended by something. Now you can't step even a little bit out of line before someone is crying that they have been offended...

The Good Friday ad is a good example - I wonder what would have happened if Tesco just straight up did nothing about it and had a sort of "deal with it" attitude to that matter.
 
There should be some sort of new rule where you can't be offended for other people, if Ross Barkley is offended then let him deal with it, it's getting tiresome the way the political correctness mob hold public lynchings at any opportunity that arises - just because something can interperated in a racist way doesn't mean that is the way it was intended, we're becoming a society where everybody is having to walk on eggshells whenever they open their mouths.
 
Marky said:
It's all down to Social Media - Back in the day, there was hardly any way to express that you were offended by something. Now you can't step even a little bit out of line before someone is crying that they have been offended...

The Good Friday ad is a good example - I wonder what would have happened if Tesco just straight up did nothing about it and had a sort of "deal with it" attitude to that matter.
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Ever heard of the Advertising Standards Authority? It's been around since 1962. Ads have been pulled long before social media.
 
mmj_uk said:
There should be some sort of new rule where you can't be offended for other people, if Ross Barkley is offended then let him deal with it, it's getting tiresome the way the political correctness mob hold public lynchings at any opportunity that arises - just because something can interperated in a racist way doesn't mean that is the way it was intended, we're becoming a society where everybody is having to walk on eggshells whenever they open their mouths.
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It's more than just the racism angle, there were the slights against Liverpudlians. The Sun deserve everything they get. If folk from Liverpool want to complain about any slight made against them at every opportunity then that's fine by me. The Sun is bogroll.
 
The racism angle by itself is ridiculous though.

I had no idea that Ross Barkley had 'mixed race' heritage, he looks white. Apparently because he has a Nigerian grandfather that makes calling him a gorilla a racial slur? I think the PC mob are just going way too far out of their way to be offended at anything they can, it's getting out of hand.
 
mmj_uk said:
The racism angle by itself is ridiculous though.

I had no idea that Ross Barkley had 'mixed race' heritage, he looks white. Apparently because he has a Nigerian grandfather that makes calling him a gorilla a racial slur? I think the PC mob are just going way too far out of their way to be offended at anything they can, it's getting out of hand.
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Fine, so that in isolation is ridiculous, but it wasn't just that which Mackenzie wrote. There's plenty of other things to be aggrieved by.
 
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