mejonaNO12 aka riskit
Well-known member
Why would that matter if he hadn't? That wouldn't prove ANYTHING.
Come on, that's really lazy.
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[News] POLL TIME - Danny Baker’s tweet
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Why would that matter if he hadn't? That wouldn't prove ANYTHING.
Come on, that's really lazy.
symyjym
Banned
So if I posted his image on here would it be acceptable or would I be called racist?
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
Well-known member
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
It’s me age
symyjym
Banned
I am waiting for Easy 10 to ask me that. But would I be called racist for posting DB's image?
- Jan 3, 2012
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The Duchess of Sussex is mixed race, and her mother is black. IF the monkey thing is relating to that, as football fans used to when they used to throw bananas at black players, then it is just out and out plain stupid and horrible.
And I don't think Danny Baker is that stupid - just unthinking maybe, and I am sure he will be regretting it
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I'd probably wonder or question why you were comparing a newborn mixed race baby to an ape. If you then said you didn't realise that the baby was of mixed race and took it down, then I'd say fair enough and think nothing more of it. I certainly wouldn't make the assumption that you were a RACIST. I've never seen you post anything racist before, and I don't know you.
Its a completely valid question, particularly as some have repeatedly informed us that he HAS used the picture before on the occassion of previous royal births.
If he didn't, you're right, it proves nothing.
If he DID then I'd be keen to know. It would establish a previous precedent, and effectively exonerate him, for me personally.
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
I think it’s more a reference to Irish Catholic’s,it is used in The Commitments film to explain their affinity to Black American music.
All the same, the BBC bleeps drug references, sex references, violence references, and yet these 2 songs are played in their entirety.
If the Beeb were serious in their anti racist stance, surely these 2 songs would also be censured.
And, Farage wouldn’t be a contributor in Question Time tonight.
Well I agree on the latter but, no, he didn't think for long enough. Just threw it out there without thinking of race.
Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
He worked for the BBC. I cannot believe he didn't have regular diversity training as I did in my job for a large organisation. Sorry, but I believe DB is a racist on the basis that he certainly knew and understood EVERY aspect of what he was doing yet was still happy to put the tweet out there. No sympathy from me.
symyjym
Banned
I would say that 100% if I posted DB's image on this forum and used the excuse of ignorance when questioned, no one would believe me, not even yourself.
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Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Well, the image that DB posted wouldn't make all that much sense coming from yourself on here, as you've never had this ongoing "monkeys dressed as famous people coming out to fairground music" schtick that Baker has been doing on his radio show for donkeys years (and if thats what DB posted it as reference to, it was a very weak gag anyway). So in that respect yes, you'd probably be on thinner ice if YOU posted it.
But I'd like to think I'd give you the benefit of the doubt, being as I've never seen anything racist from you before. And I'd also factor in that I was also personally ignorant of her mixed race heritage until the endless wall-to-wall wedding coverage we were exposed to.
symyjym
Banned
Deadly Danson
Well-known member
https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/present...bakers-first-interview-since-being-sacked-by/ Really worth a listen especially those who think the tweet was deliberately racist.
- Aug 8, 2005
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Danny Baker is definitely not a racist but he is a cheeky monkey.
He should have realised the pc brigade would take offence. Personally I don't see the issue. Anyone who associates monkeys with black people is a racist in my eyes. I certainly wouldn't have looked at that picture and seen it from that angle and I am pretty sure he didn't either.
That said, I also don't think he was too bothered about being fired from the BBC.
He should have realised the pc brigade would take offence. Personally I don't see the issue. Anyone who associates monkeys with black people is a racist in my eyes. I certainly wouldn't have looked at that picture and seen it from that angle and I am pretty sure he didn't either.
That said, I also don't think he was too bothered about being fired from the BBC.
symyjym
Banned
Exactly how could anyone miss the endless wall-to-wall wedding coverage? Quite a lot of people on here have called me racist when discussing a particular religion tbf. But I am glad you have never noticed any racist comments from me.
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
Typical NSC waste of time.
Man in public spotlight does something stupid, intentionally or unintentionally.
Man in public spotlight pays the price people in the public spotlight do when they do something stupid, intentionally or unintentionally.
There, now go do something profound and meaningful.
Man in public spotlight does something stupid, intentionally or unintentionally.
Man in public spotlight pays the price people in the public spotlight do when they do something stupid, intentionally or unintentionally.
There, now go do something profound and meaningful.