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The BBC must be in torment, on one hand the BBC is seen by some as the a fortress of political correctness and there are surly people inside the BBC have acking for an opportunity like this to get rid of Clarkson. On the other hand Clarkson/Top Gear brings in huge revenues from overseas broadcasts which given the financial restraints the BBC is under at the moment begs so I can't seem them wanting to risk losing that income.
Personally I would never use the n word and I can't believe JC with all of his years of experience in front of camera and microphones would even think to say it while filming. I don't think he should lambasted to hard for this he obviously knew it would cause controversy if he came out and said clearly hence why he mumbled that part of rhyme.
Personally I would never use the n word and I can't believe JC with all of his years of experience in front of camera and microphones would even think to say it while filming. I don't think he should lambasted to hard for this he obviously knew it would cause controversy if he came out and said clearly hence why he mumbled that part of rhyme.
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BBC would be stupid to get rid of Clarkson, this is PC gone mad anyways, its a children s nursery rhyme!
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yes too be honest it is a nursey rhyme everyone knows it
also releasing it 7 yrs on, talk about saving ammunition.
so many idiots ruining stuff over trivial matters. he didnt mean to infuriate or cause riot .
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Actually, there is a relevant news article from today to exemplify this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-27255852
On one side we have clarkson, a television entertainer known for lad humour and risky jokes, and on the the other three serving police officers. One is an appropriate setting for humour, one isn't.
There has been much worse things both hinted at and said on Top Gear about all sorts of subjects, and these have made the air.
Journalists are worse than bankers to me.
Yeah, that's a good example of people saying things that they didn't realise was causing offence. If they did realise, then they're pretty dumb as they should have known, as police officers, that it was a sackable offence.
LOL
Seriously people need to learn how to ignore words and not get offended at something someone says, especially if that someone means nothing to you...
***** and Redneck are most certainly slurs.
I hate that ***** is now classed as some kind of 'racist' insult.
They ARE scumbags, the lot of them. I class them more of a scrotal underclass than a race
The problem with that is, it's a very slippery slope to go down.
How do you know that something you say completely innocently and without any sort of malicious intent, isn't going to inadvertently offend someone?
I could claim to be offended by one of my colleagues talking about bananas - by your logic, that would be the colleagues fault for being offensive!
Try telling a redneck that and he would prob beat you up it lol.
This just makes me thing of that scene in "me myself and Irene" where he asked the [black] limo driver "do you people take cheques?"
I don't mind Clarkson (I don't really like him, but I'll put up with him). I'm not that into Top Gear, but have watched and do now and again.
I thought the "slope" joke was in really poor taste and not only am I surprised that the BBC broadcast it, but I'm surprised he wasn't disciplined for it.
The eeny meeny miney mo thing is a bit of nonsense really. He says he didn't say the word in question and regrets what he did say sounding like he did.
However, coupled with the slope thing...
I thought the "slope" joke was in really poor taste and not only am I surprised that the BBC broadcast it, but I'm surprised he wasn't disciplined for it.
The eeny meeny miney mo thing is a bit of nonsense really. He says he didn't say the word in question and regrets what he did say sounding like he did.
However, coupled with the slope thing...
The problem with that is, it's a very slippery slope to go down.
How do you know that something you say completely innocently and without any sort of malicious intent, isn't going to inadvertently offend someone?
I could claim to be offended by one of my colleagues talking about bananas - by your logic, that would be the colleagues fault for being offensive!
No, it's not a slippery slope. And that's a classic straw man argument. No-ones talking about bananas. It's about people using language and having attitudes that others (quite rightly, not wrongly) find offensive. Ignorance of why others might find offence is not an excuse.
I could claim to be offended by one of my colleagues talking about bananas - by your logic, that would be the colleagues fault for being offensive!
If you did that in the R.A.F. then the supervising officer would charge you for being an imbecile and put you on jankers . You'd also be a complete laughing stock on camp. Nice example.
I've worked in the military and in civilian jobs and to be honest I prefer the military. Lots of common sense and no tolerance for BS.
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Indeed.