If anyone mentions the trouble they have had with / can’t get to because of / hates the / loves the snow, I will punch them in the face, man, women, disabled child, it doesn’t matter, just enjoy it in any way you like while it’s here.
Battling with the awesome weather for our attention this week is the story of Carol Thatcher getting sacked from the BBC show ‘The One Show’ – one of my TV secret shames. She was sacked because whilst backstage amongst co-presenters, charity workers, journalists and randomly Jo Brand, she referred to tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga as a Gollywog.
Please bear with me those of you who, like me, are suffering from a bit of BBCHSOF – BBC or Heath and Safety Outrage Fatigue.
Carol Thatcher, daughter of Margret and former ‘Queen of the Jungle’ has at the time of writing this, received 2500 votes of support, by means of complaints to the BBC over the sacking. Many of the complains, including Thatcher’s agent, have mentioned that the comment was made in private and shouldn’t have been leaked – you need to be an idiot to believe that a room of journalists and famously Labour biased Jo Brand is classed as private. Football pundit Ron Atkinson believed he was talking in private when he was broadcasted to the armed forces network calling a black footballer a racial name, and look what happened to him – is he still alive?
Do the people who say that the term Gollywog or the child’s toy they once had is not offensive, also think that the Spanish Formula 1 fans who mocked Lewis Hamilton by wearing black face paint and wigs were having innocent light-hearted banter?
My view is that another ill-informed bandwagon has been jumped upon by idiots, but may I make my point quite clear, you call someone a Gollywog - you are being racist. The equation is quite simple. To turn away from the facts by highlighting this case as another PC brigade goes mad story is turning a blind eye to racism – which from the age of the people doing that is no surprise because that is what happened in the world up to the 1990’s.
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Was she a racist? Yes. Did she use her media position to spread racial hatred and intollerance? Not really. Did she deserve her media position in the first place? Again, probably not. At the end of the day, she was put on the TV to get people to watch so they could make bigger money off advertising, and her demise was put in print to get people reading to boost advertising streams in newspapers. Who gives a crap? Say what you will about the snow, but at least it had some meaning on our lives.
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Well no, she was made "famous" by ITV's reality tv show department, and I said it was the print press who mostly marked up her demise for their sales. Not that the BBC doesn't profit from putting on a lot of crap reality tv, pocketing license payers money rather than spending it on scriptwriters, real actors, and halving production costs.
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