Danny Baker

[alfinyalcabo]

Sacked by the bcc ..

[sinkov]

You have to laugh, halfwit on twitter gets his comeuppance.

[Altobelli]

For me, another trigger reaction from a TV company called the BBC, Danny Baker been in the job over 30 years, 30 years of keeping his racism in the closet and suddenly coming out eh ?

It was a joke about Class, but no, its labelled racist FFS !

He apologised and removed it when told it could (or should I say would) be classed as racist and apologised.

We know each other on here and know that no one is racist, if the photo would have been posted on this Forum it would have been classed as funny and nobody but the sensitive and over argumentative PC brigade would bat an eye.

I'd like to know what the difference is between Bakers photo and the one below, which is from a British newspaper showing a Royal thinking it O.K. to wear part of a German uniform ?

[Norder]

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Joe was purchased by circus-owner Lew Backenstoe, who’s wife trained the chimp to perform human-like tricks. The trio set out on tour around the country, billed as “Joe Mendi, the eigh****-month old chimpanzee with the intelligence of a five year old child.”



...image taken at the Scopes (Monkey) trial of 1925.

The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes.....was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial

...For the entirety of the media circus, Joe played a miniature piano...posed for photographs and drank coke at the local soda counter.

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Joe Mendi, the gentleman chimpanzee, steps out of a taxi at Belle Vue Hospital in New York, where he is visiting invalid children Apr. 1, 1925.

[Acido]

Sacked by the bcc ..

As one door closes though eh Alf, I hear the Bbc are looking to hire a new Millwall fan immediately... step forward Mr Claw.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Alto I swear I'm not being argumentative, but if Danny Baker thought he could get away with such nonsense when the country is yet again awash with cap doffing demented eejits going wild about a half American, half ******* descendent he had to be wrong in his phooking head.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

To qualify, that's the descendent of a ginger mulleted barsteward prone to wearing great grandad's heirlooms (see photo in thread 3).

[whittyclaretandblue]

The only people who see racism in stuff like this are racists who don't accept that they are racist so have to see it in everything they possibly can and call it out.
The BBC ignored reports of their employees touching up young girls and boys throughout the 70's 80's and 90's, Jimmy once even did it on Top of the Pops all at the license payers expense but post a picture that a few racists thought was racist and somebody has to go.
The PC brigade need to be told to **** off sick of them trying to dictate what Is funny and what isn't, it makes me laugh when I see articles about people finding old films/tv programmes racist or ***ist (Ace Ventura is one) then they complain there's not enough diversity on our screens etc make up your ****ing minds

Racist or Brand Icon

[army88]

The only people who see racism in stuff like this are racists who don't accept that they are racist so have to see it in everything they possibly can and call it out.
The BBC ignored reports of their employees touching up young girls and boys throughout the 70's 80's and 90's, Jimmy once even did it on Top of the Pops all at the license payers expense but post a picture that a few racists thought was racist and somebody has to go.
The PC brigade need to be told to **** off sick of them trying to dictate what Is funny and what isn't, it makes me laugh when I see articles about people finding old films/tv programmes racist or ***ist (Ace Ventura is one) then they complain there's not enough diversity on our screens etc make up your ****ing minds

Racist or Brand Icon

Nail on head springs to mind there Witty exactly right.

[sinkov]

Twitter is a platform for the vacant and vacuous, it's policed daily by people absolutely determined to find offence and be outraged. Baker has done nothing wrong, but he's an experienced broadcaster, he's been around the block many times, he uses Twitter for his own ends when it suits him, he knows how it works, and he should be aware of the consequences of falling off when you ride a tiger, it might just turn round and gobble you up. Baker has fallen off and been gobbled up, serves him fecking right.