Danny Baker should be sacked immediately

However it’s mainly politics on both stations and he seems too ignorant to be honest

Yes Beckett. I am like you, I can't sit back and do nothing.

I didn't want to spend a couple of hours on here arguing over a stupid man like DB whose remark shocked and disgusted me, but for my own integrity I had to stand up for what I thought was right. I am recovering from Bronchitis which has caused a relapse in my longstanding M.E. and really I should have been lying down relaxing, so off to the sofa now to lie down with the cat!!

I didn't mean it to be clever. Just helpful to posters who hadn't seen it.
Don't worry about it Gonegirl - it was on the main ITV News anyway.
DH asked "Why? Why show it when it is so offensive"?

Offensive materiel should be shown otherwise it can’t be judged.

When I started this thread, I deliberately chose not to repost the image . It was very easy to find and I thought people should decide for themselves if they wanted to actually see it or not.

Mycat Offensive materiel should be shown otherwise it can’t be judged.

I'm afraid your comment doesn't stack up - think heavy duty porn, inciting hatred, recruiting to IS, etc.

My point was that if someone wants to find DB's post, it is easily found but IMHO we shouldn't be circulating it round and making things worse. In doing that, we reiterate the hatred.

If that were a personal comment about oneself, would we want it tweeted and retweeted and reposted globally? No, of course not. All changes begin with a single step. I would not want to be associated with such a cruel, racist post.

I quite agree Maryeliza

You could always report the offending post with the link to GN Sparklefizz.

Callistemon I think maybe someone already has.

The picture of the chimp is not in itself offensive - it's all about context. I have no problem with the image being shown.

I wouldn't have wanted say the photo-shopped picture of Michelle Obama morphing her into an ape, being reproduced here, as that was an outright offensive image and was designed to be so.

DB has compounded the error with his football reference - there's been so much publicity about the racism that black footballers face with bananas being thrown on the pitch and monkey chanting.

Oh for goodness sake Riverwalk, the whole point is that he linked it to the Royal baby with a caption!!!!

Maryelize

Understand although I think Gont was ok to share it as it was in the news paper.

Sparkle

Your post is nonsensical as this wasn’t hard cure porn and in the main stream media. Your examples are quite ridiculous in comparison.

Mycat Please try not to be rude! You just said "offensive material" - you didn't specify what, hence your post came across as any offensive material..... hence my response.

I'm well aware of the point sparklefizz - I was referring to the argument on GN about the reproduction of the image on this site.

How can anyone "not have a problem with the image being shown" when it's racially abusing a newborn baby? Words fail me. The image and caption go together.

That, in fact, is not what Sir Keir Starmer said anyway, back in 2012.

Part of what he said was:
The well established right to freedom of expression covers not only speech which is well-received and popular, but also that which is offensive, shocking or disturbing. Just because content in a communication is in bad taste, controversial or unpopular, and may cause offences to individuals or a specific community, that is not in itself sufficient reason to put someone through the court process.

No-one had to follow the link to the offensive picture and tweet and it was in fact a link to another publication, not reproduced on here.

However, it is right that this person has been sacked by the BBC.

Oh I'm so glad I'm not gonna be put through the court process.

It worries me greatly that on another thread a racist, fascist poltician is being lauded whereas on this thread someone who has made one mistake (which was instantly corrected) is being castigated.

Don’t be worried that someone who knew full well that image was offensive and racist is being castigated.

As for the other person - his views and that of his ilk go some way to explain why casual racism is seen by some as just a joke or a momentary lapse of judgement.

Poor little Archie - only 4 days old and already getting his first taste of racism. Hope no-one goes out of their way to tell his parents. Very upsetting.

sparklefiz

I wasn’t trying to be rude

I was pointing out that your examples were not sensible ones and I would expect anyone with sense to understand that items like hard corn porn are not ok to share but items in the main stream media are.

You need to understand the current guidelines on sharing material.

I see callistermon has shared it.

And I completely see your points tricher if I may say your posts on this have been very thought provoking.

Well I’m not lauding a fascist racists politician anywhere and I dislike that insinuation trisher. If you think there’s hypocrisy, name names, don’t cast wide slurs like that. And as you know, I completely disagree with your analysis of DB- you can’t have heard his whiney snivelling self justification ramblings today. What is wrong with some people? First lemon erroneously equating left wing as automatically backing DB and now you throwing accusations of hypocrisy around. I wish people would just say which posters they were criticising rather than this mealey mouthed approach,

I was reading through some twitter threads and allegedly he posted the same picture when one of Will and Kate's was born. If that is true. Then he is childish and repetitive but not racist. Maybe that is why auntie didn't actually accuse him of racism but had to sack him for not doing his homework and realising Meghan is of mixed race.