Rolling "British public figure in racist outburst" thread

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/05/strictly-come-dancing-race

idk who this person is tbh

comments on the daily mail story for this are just fucking depressing

'I am not a racist and I do not use racist language', says BBC's Strictly dancer and Hole in the Wall presenter.

Strictly Come Dancing was at the centre of a race row after it emerged that Anton Du Beke called his dancing partner a "Paki".

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Well done there Jesus Goody.

What is "Hole In The Wall"?

Reality tv show about glory hole fun times.

For goodness sake, I don't take offence if someone call me a scottie, or my Husband get called Jock. People need to lighten up, it is becoming ridicolous. We are not allowed to say anything or have any opinions any more. Lighten up folks!

it's kind of amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-zxi_Y4Xu8

Hole In The Wall and The Cube have become an irresistible Sat evening double bill for those weekends when I'm visiting my mother and we've finally run out of Disney videos for the kids.

haraldhardrada

05 Oct 09, 10:58am (32 minutes ago)

she's beautiful -- white women no longer interest me

separated at birth Rob Brydon & Anton Du Beke

Do you think that Rob Brydon & Anton Du Beke might be the same person?
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081129021317AAQIieJ

Got to say that HITW was textbook I-fear-to-watch-yet-cannot-turn-away stuff on my debut viewing of it last weekend

idk who this person is tbh

^ elitist

For goodness sake, I don't take offence if someone call me a scottie, or my Husband get called Jock.

A Scottie??!??!!? I would get annoyed if someone called me Jock

I don't know why I just wasted 5min of my time doing this but a search on "du beke" AND NOT Anton suggests he gave himself a stage surname not shared by anyone else in the world. So, y'know, well done for that. Racist.

He just happened to Pi(c)k a name that sounds like Afrikaans politician

Or someone insulting someone else in german.

"I am not a racist and I do not use racist language"... "except when I do, obviously". I mean, wtf? Quite clearly you did think it was an acceptable part of your 'banter' and thus you DO use racist language.

This is yet another indication of the increasing meaninglessness of all public discourse. People blithely say things that are blatantly contradicted by the evidence, without any thought that they might not be right, or believed. By this token, Bruce Forsyth could commit genocide but as long as he swore he wasn't a racist it would all be fine.

You don't have to be racist to commit genocide though.

(not that that would make it fine)

That would be Bruce Forsyth's defence, I'm sure. RACIST MURDERER.

Trying to think of circumstances in which a non-racist would commit genocide.

"I'm not a racist but that was really valuable land those guys were living on."

Craziness? Bored? New mental political agenda that people may disagree with/lose their heads because they disagree no matter their race?

end of season sale at MacheteWorld

Surely it's possible to think of feasible circumstances but much harder to think when it's actually happened...though it must have done. Still it comes down to defining terms as usual though. Europeans were slaughtering eachother wholesale in the sixteeenth to eighteenth centuries in the name of religion rather than race.

If you wanted to kill everyone on the planet would you be a racist? I suppose a 'human race'ist, perhaps?

I dunno, hating someone due to religion usually ends up in the fun world of racial stereotypes. xpost.

What I meant was that "genocide" has a specific sense - trying to wipe out a racial or cultural group - rather than simple mass slaughter in the name of a political ideology/territorial gains.

which is better, in your opinion?

lol I was simply hair-splitting about definitions. Obviously any killing on a mass scale is a mere statistic.

disappointing, i thought we were gonna talk about the issues man

I can only express my preferences in mass slaughter thru the medium of a poll.

mass slaughter due to differing musical preferences is okay

i mean if louis has taught us anything it's that.

say what you like about germany under the nazis, they had rythym

Boring four-on-the-floor midtempo rhythm tho.

The Nazis are the chart house of political ideologies.