The Latest BBC Controversy

[Slim]

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it's 1-1!

[Slim]

I've been keeping an eye on these, turns out they don't use generic models often. But they have today.

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Whitey losing 2-1 at the moment.

[Slim]

Not counting this one because she's interviewed in the piece, not a generic model. But it's classic BBC.

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Every single teen interviewed (six of them) is an ethnic minority. 

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[David L]

Not counting this one because she's interviewed in the piece, not a generic model. But it's classic BBC.

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Every single teen interviewed (six of them) is an ethnic minority.

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Looks like she may have a slightly closer association with the source than most though, tbf.

[David L]

^ True that, very, very few TV adverts don't have an ethnic minority in it.

Reform MP has to apologise for her view on the proliferation of ethnic minorities in adverts.

https://news.sky.com/story/reform-uks-zia-yusuf-defends-mp-accused-of-racism-13457993

[David L]

^ True that, very, very few TV adverts don't have an ethnic minority in it.

Reform MP has to apologise for her view on the proliferation of ethnic minorities in adverts.

https://news.sky.com/story/reform-uks-zia-yusuf-defends-mp-accused-of-racism-13457993

This is an interesting little clip on this very subject. Politico have investigated ethnic representation in adverts and proved that Reform's Sarah Pochin had no reason whatsoever to apologise for her comments.

[David L]

[David L]

Censorship - the way some defend a position they know to be questionable.

[Matt2112]

Yep, the "impartial" BBC caught red-handed cordoning off an arena of discourse yet again.  It's intellectual squeamishness, pure and simple.

[Slim]

Censorship - the way some defend a position they know to be questionable.

Not surprised to see this, but my sense is that race is treated in the same way - diversity and multiculturalism are a religion to them and for sure they only permit the same point of view, to the point where it amounts to racism.

[Slim]

I've just watched the first episode of Empire, a new series claiming to examine the history of the British Empire, written and presented by the "historian", if that's really what he is, David Olusoga.

You may have seen David in the BBC's very successful Celebrity Traitors programme. He came across as urbane and thoughtful, but his instincts and judgement proved to be wrong the whole way through. David's occasional Guardian columns are a lot like that.

If I were to issue a one word review of Empire, I think I might choose: excrement. In the whole of the first episode, an hour long no less, David somehow didn't get round to the defining features of the British Empire, namely the huge advantages that Britain bestowed upon the world: railways, the common law, banking, sanitation, medicine, irrigation, roads. Nope, none of that. Oh no. The whole wretched programme was classic BBC race-baiting; all about whitey making himself rich off the back of the poor black folks. I am so sick of the BBC endlessly wagging its finger at me for being white. I am tired of the unending left wing moral lecture that radiates daily from the nation's television sets, handsomely funded forever by coercion.

But I think Empire may be the single most BBC thing ever to exist. It is, in essence, a soap box atop which a black, left-wing Guardian columnist with a massive chip on his shoulder has been invited to do his best to make the licence payers ashamed of who they are.

[Fishy]

If I were to issue a one word review of Empire, I think I might choose: excrement

That just made me laugh out loud..superb..😀

[pxr5]

If I were to issue a one word review of Empire, I think I might choose: excrement

That just made me laugh out loud..superb..😀

Me too. Well said Slim.

[Nickslikk2112]

It is, in essence, a soap box atop which a black, left-wing Guardian columnist with a massive chip on his shoulder has been invited to do his best to make the licence payers ashamed of who they are.

He's not even that black. If didn't have his hair done like he does he'd look like someone with a good tan. Why can't mixed race people admit to being white?

[David L]

Good f**king riddance!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9kqz1yyxkt