Carol Thatcher - PC madness strikes again?

[4mastacker]

Carol Thatcher may not be everybody's cup-of-tea but hasn't the BBC gone OTT following her alleged remark about a certain tennis player looking like a golliwog? We really are in an Orwellian society if alleged remarks made in private result in someone losing their job. As if Chiles and Brand are paragons of virtue!

 

[230Tiger]

My understanding of it was that she didn't actually call him a golliwog but rather commented that he looked a bit like the golliwog that used to be on the jam jars when she was growing up.
Is it really racist to say that someone looks a bit like a cartoon character?

 

[firestorm]

Done here.
http://www.e-goat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=22540
DT_Xtremez_28:

Can the mods link them up?

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

It all depends on which paper you read. One states that she said the tennis player reminded her of the golliwog from when she was growing up (Metro); another states she said the player looked like a golliwog (Express); and another states that he was a golliwog (Sun).

While the first comment appears entirely innocent, the third comment is blatantly racist. So you pays your money and takes your choice.


What this story does prove is that the media can`t/won`t just report what has happened, but insist on putting their slant on it....presumably for the hard of thinking.

 

[4mastacker]

Looks like I was wrong when I said in my OP that her remarks were made in private. According to the weasly-worded response I had from the BBC Complaints Department, "Carol Thatcher's remarks were not made in private but in a BBC Green Room....". So, by default, does that make a Green Room a "Public Place" and does the BBC apply the law in respect of homosexual acts, drug-taking and any other activity that takes place therein?. I wouldn't put money on it! And seeing it's not a private area does that mean anyone one can walk in off the street and rub shoulders with the 'celebrities'?... hmm, thought not!