Jeremy Clarkson Media Crucified For Race Rant

[JimC]

Ban all the US rappers who use the word, says I...

[cronus]

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/m ... CMP=twt_gu

Jeremy Clarkson row: lawyers to write to Barack Obama over 'racist' Top Gear

Lawyers are to write to Barack Obama and the ambassadors of every country in which Top Gear airs asking them if the BBC motoring series should continue to be broadcast, following Jeremy Clarkson's mumbled use of the N-word.

Lawrence Davies, director of law firm Equal Justice, branded Top Gear as "racist" and told MediaGuardian his firm did not accept the apology Clarkson has made.

He also asked who had approved the scene when Clarkson is shown choosing between two cars by reciting the words to the nursery rhyme "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" and apparently mumbling the N-word.

Davies said: "We are to write to every ambassador and the US president next week asking them to consider the evidence and then to decide if this racist show should be broadcast in their country in future."

Top Gear is broadcast in around 214 territories around the world.

Davies also asked whether or not the scene was scripted and the use of the mumbling approved in advance.

However, MediaGuardian understands that the rhyme "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" was not scripted.

Equal Justice represented Indian-born actress Somi Guha when she complained to the BBC about Top Gear earlier this year over Clarkson using the word "slope" as a Thai man crossed a bridge in an episode set in Burma.

(continued, doesn't help the US in it's tilt shift towards Asia as a political focus? )

[cronus]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jamelia-calls- ... ur-1447115

I'm with Jamelia. She's a real woman.

[mistermack]

Chris Rock put it quite well. Can white people say nigger? The answer is ''not really''.



Mind you, I don't agree. But he puts it well.
But I think, if he can call me a mother fucker, I can call him a nigger. Not that I particularly want to.

I don't mind being called a mother fucker. But I suppose, if I came from a racial group who historically used to fuck their mothers, I wouldn't like it too much.

I am actually a mother fucker. But fortunately, it wasn't my mother. She was nice, but not my type.

[klr]

Are they really getting rid of Nigger the dog in the new Dambusters movie?

Probably a just a lot easier not to give it a name, then again its probably going to be the US airforce blowing up the dams. The dam's will be in England and blowing them up will free the Scots

Yup. To be replaced with something small and cute, and it won't get run over and killed the way N****r was.

Well, probably.

[rainbow]

The fact that people can't discuss this rationally without getting their knickers in an almighty twist, means that it never gets resolved.

Personal experience shows that the worst racists are way too clever to ever utter a racist word. Clarkson is a right twit, but he's not the problem.

[cronus]

The fact that people can't discuss this rationally without getting their knickers in an almighty twist, means that it never gets resolved.

Personal experience shows that the worst racists are way too clever to ever utter a racist word. Clarkson is a right twit, but he's not the problem.

Clarkson is clever though. IQ 138 makes him a sub-genius, don't be fooled he could be a dangerous man...his sociopathy has attracted a audience.

[JimC]

He wants to be the class clown...

Met a million of 'em...

[rainbow]

The fact that people can't discuss this rationally without getting their knickers in an almighty twist, means that it never gets resolved.

Personal experience shows that the worst racists are way too clever to ever utter a racist word. Clarkson is a right twit, but he's not the problem.

Clarkson is clever though. IQ 138 makes him a sub-genius, don't be fooled he could be a dangerous man...his sociopathy has attracted a audience.

How could he possibly be dangerous?

Are people really so mentally pathetic that they can't just yawn, and move on?

If so, I've no hope for the future of mankind.

[cronus]

The fact that people can't discuss this rationally without getting their knickers in an almighty twist, means that it never gets resolved.

Personal experience shows that the worst racists are way too clever to ever utter a racist word. Clarkson is a right twit, but he's not the problem.

Clarkson is clever though. IQ 138 makes him a sub-genius, don't be fooled he could be a dangerous man...his sociopathy has attracted a audience.

How could he possibly be dangerous?

Are people really so mentally pathetic that they can't just yawn, and move on?

If so, I've no hope for the future of mankind.

Hitler was considered a comedian, a joker in the pack, until he came to power. Never underestimate the guy with a following.

[Hermit]

Hitler was considered a comedian, a joker in the pack

Actually, he was never considered that way, and if Clarkson had any ambitions to conquer the world, or even just influence it politically, we would have noticed by now.

[Pappa]

"Eery, meeny..." is old. Really, really old. It's believed to originate in a pre - Iron Age counting system.

[Hermit]

According to all the best archaeologists it's even older than that. It predates the existence of niggers.

[mistermack]

Words go through a sort of process when it comes to minorities. What starts off as perfectly ok gets shortened and then taboo, when the kids and idiots start using them as insults.

The same thing happened with cripples. We still say someone was crippled, or suffered a crippling injury, but now you can't say that someone is a cripple.
You can say that someone suffers from senile dementia, but can't say that they're senile. Now they suffer from dementia, or alzheimer's.

Eventually, the word soaks up something of the contempt that assholes have been putting into it.
The word dumb used to mean speech-impaired, until the Americans started using it for stupid.
Now it's pretty much taboo to use it as that.

I find it a bit weird and unnecessary, but I suppose you have to go with the flow.

[jaydot]

what i find interesting is that the footage was never aired. i'd like to know who at the bbc dug it out and handed it over to the mirror so that they could use it to embarrass clarkson. it was archive footage and should have stayed there. it looks a lot like "let's get clarkson".