MikeMA
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A balanced approachI’m not racist. I hate everyone.
A balanced approachI’m not racist. I hate everyone.
And on the very same page - as if they wanted to illustrate his point about ‘lampooning privilege and the news cycle’ we seePolice are investigating now.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...eet-police-investigation-latest-a8909201.html
Police are investigating now.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...eet-police-investigation-latest-a8909201.html
I'm perturbed that people are seeing this Danny Baker and the monkey baby sh1t purely in terms of racism. Yes, it's racist, but it's a whole load of other things too, and it's arguable that the racist element is incidental. Baker is an arse hole.It’s very hard to have a discussion about racism when racist perps are oblivious to their racist outbursts and [their] racist supporters say they are not being racist, yet say racist things when protesting they are not racist.
Structural racism is the kind of racism that white people have a hard time accepting because we have privileges that blind us to the reality that non-white people experience all sorts of barriers to social mobility and different ways of being treated because of race. If we refuse to recognise this then despite not “having a racist bone in our bodies”— we too are racist.
All this maybe presupposes more self-awareness than Danny Baker is capable of (must admit I had to work a bit to remember this c-lister ‘sleb)... in which case have a broadway song — with muppets.
FIFYThe only balanced approach
Whatever it is or is not, it's not worth the thousands of keyboard heroes telling each other off on social media. That presenter was close to retirement anyway and he has apologised since. Next question ?Yes, it's racist, but it's a whole load of other things too, and it's arguable that the racist element is incidental.
Sorry, but given his job and profile it was a monumentally stupid thing to do even if there was no malice behind it.
Can you imagine any of the kneejerk fingerpointers on here having to serve on a jury? Holy shit, the noose industry would be booming.l have a friend who knows Danny and says there is no racist or anything like that in him, and that is a very humble and funny chap....bit strange.
Robbie Fowler only just got away with it when he accused someone of 'acting like a girl', I dread the day someone off the cuff calls the wrong person a 'cheeky monkey'.
I remember someone saying he was a good friend of Margaret Thatcher and that she was kind, warm-hearted and compassionate.
Evidence and source please? I doubt it, as he is very old school left-wing.
Merely mentioning a person close to you (let alone a good friend) who waxes lyrical about Margaret Thatcher makes you highly suspicious. I shall steer clear of you from now on.I remember someone saying he was a good friend of Margaret Thatcher and that she was kind, warm-hearted and compassionate.