MP coins a phrase '' Regionalised racism''

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That is a new one on me but this link has it all.

Reinforcing negative stereotypes
Exploitation of the chavs
Tackling the last great ism (thats what they said)
And some really big yes/no decisions to be made on some scantily clad young ladies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013746/Desperate-Scousewives-Mersey-Shore-Northern-versions-The-Only-Way-Is-Essex-fuel-regional-racism.html

 

[beorhthelm]

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We've got to break this cycle. For some people down in London, Bread and Brookside were documentaries, ...You don't get the same suspended belief in Manchester about Shameless or Coronation Street or with cockneys about EastEnders or Only Fools and Horses.

er, firstly didnt they pride themselves on being earthy real portrayals of life, and secondly yes you do.

 

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er, firstly didnt they pride themselves on being earthy real portrayals of life, and secondly yes you do.

Newcastle MP Chi Onwurah has described Geordie Shore - another version of the 'scripted reality shows' - as exploitative and 'bordering on the pornographic'.
He believes that young people are being exploited and plied with alcohol to present an outdated, misleading and insulting portrait of Newcastle.


Tee Hee

 

[Peteinblack]

People can't help their skin colour; they are born with it.
People can help being chavs of sluts; they are lifestyle choices, and about how you choose to act or behave.
Hence, racism is wrong, but hating chavs or trashy 'Essex girls' is quite OK, IMHO.
I will never judge or condemn anyone for the colour of their skin or ethnic/racial background, but I will judge or condemn people for their dumb or anti-social behaviour, and acting as if they are proud of being brainless idiots.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Does this apply to people around Brighton accusing people living in the Croydon area of the "P" word?

 

[Pavilionaire]

What a load of bollocks. Middle Class shows like Mock The Week and Eight Out Of Ten Cats are full of regional stereotype gags. Al Murray's made a career out of stereotyping people.

As for shows like Geordie Shore, again - what's the problem? Watching chavs go round Newcastle pissed is like going to the zoo and watching monkeys in a cage. It's not my idea of good telly but if some people like to watch it then good luck to them.

 

[sten_super]

What a load of bollocks. Middle Class shows like Mock The Week and Eight Out Of Ten Cats are full of regional stereotype gags. Al Murray's made a career out of stereotyping people.

It's even been done previously in reality TV - Big Brother was great at it, shoving 'cheeky chappy' Scousers in a house with Jade 'Essex chav' Goody and posh middle-class people and watching the fireworks erupt.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Guilty.

 

[Arthur]

As for shows like Geordie Shore, again - what's the problem? Watching chavs go round Newcastle pissed is like going to the zoo and watching monkeys in a cage. It's not my idea of good telly but if some people like to watch it then good luck to them.

The two problems I can see is firstly young, stupid, impressionable tossers thinking that is how people behave in the real world and all they have to do to earn a living is get a gig on a crappy TV show. Secondly we export these programs around the globe! I've got a Dutch girl who work for me and she informs me The Only Way is Essex is shown out there and Dutch people believe that most girls want to be an Essex girl and most blokes want to go out with an Essex girl.

 

[Pavilionaire]

It's obviously a good thing that racist humour's largely off our screens and a thing of the past, but somewhere along the line taking the piss out of the Irish vanished as well and now we get the phrase "regionalised racism". It's ridiculous.

Last week I watched Micky Flanagan put on a Nigerian accent to effect a joke and the collective wincing around the studio was bizarre. Dara O'Briain moved things on at a pace, obviously conscious that a Nigerian accent in a joking context might be perceived as racist, even though it plainly wasn't. Yet the same show was quite happy to put up with the excesses of Frankie Boyle. Weird.

 

[skipper734]

Calm down, calm down.

 

[Everest]

Doesn't sound like Martin Perry.
Must have had a bad day.

 

[El Presidente]

Ridiculous, if they prevent this then Viz, my favourite publication, would be no more. Cockney Wanker, The Fat Slags, Tappa Slappa, Sid the Sexist, Sophie Titte-Wank are lampoons, no more, but very funny with it.

Some people have no sense of humour, such as the Skegness Council, who sued Viz for the poster 'Skegness if f***ing Shit'. Do they honestly think people will holiday elsewhere on the basis of a COMIC?