Danny Baker should be sacked immediately

EVIL MAN !! I've never liked him and many others like him with their " new wave " humour--------which isn't funny and never was/is.
The law should come down heavily on him for his sick message, it would for anyone else, and the country against him too ! This is the result of Republican-minded individuals whose thoughts on our Royals are despicable !!

Oy * EV* you cant get more Republican than me and I started the thread - my anti-racism trumps my Republicanism any day.

Good riddance to him. I have never liked the bloke and I hope he cannot get a job anywhere. Maybe a zoo might take him on, mucking out.

Great news that he's been quickly sacked! Glad it didn't drag on.

Brilliant!!

Excellent news - it was obscene and he deserves to be charged with whatever they can throw at him (although I await the Daily Fail/Britain First types claiming it was just a joke).

And I'm a Republican minded individual...

He deserved to be sacked. Pretty stupid of him to show his true feelings, and then a total non apology.

Whatever you think of the Sussex family, it's not nice to read something like that about your new baby.

Chimpanzee is not a race. There may be races of chimpanzees for all I know though.

It's just a stupid remark in bad taste. Ignoring it would probably have more effect that expressing outrage.

Is it now "racist" to call a mischievous child a little monkey?

PS I've no idea who Danny Baker is. I think mob outrage is getting out of hand.

FFS Baggs I actually was playing Baggs Bingo waiting for precisely the post you posted.

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Oh baggs, surely you know that comparing black people to monkeys, that is, just an animal, less than human was a way of justifying slavery and even today is used to denigrate and belittle.

So frustrating to be making a valid, if controversial, point is n a meeting and to be undermined by someone making ooo noises or ostentatiously scratching their armpit.

It wasn’t just stupid.

Baggs - It's just a stupid remark in bad taste. Ignoring it would probably have more effect that expressing outrage. Is it now "racist" to call a mischievous child a little monkey?

Are you really that naive? It is absolutely racist to depict a baby born to a black mother as a monkey!

It is a common form of racist abuse against black people. Have you missed the 100s of articles recently about racists making monkey noises and throwing bananas at black footballers?

Even if you have managed to miss the implications I's am sure that Danny Baker knew exactly what he was doing as a lifelong Millwall supporter - a club known for a racist element among its supporters.

Baggs isn’t naive

No - pretty sad to read excuses for a racist attack on a 3 day old baby on Gransnet½

It is a common form of racist abuse against black people.

If it is naive not to have been aware of this, then I am naive.
I'm probably not aware of other "common forms" of racist abuse.

Well now you know, do you still think it was just a silly thing to do?

There is a long history of comparing black people to monkeys. It goes back centuries. Danny B was stupid and crass, if not intentionally racist. He deserves to lose his job whichever explanation is the case.

And Baker is now complaining on social media about his treatment by the BBC

Perhaps Baggs would like to console him

Apologies to all My phone has developed an allergy to full stops

I’ve just heard DB being ‘interviewed’ by James O’Brien on LBC - two white priveleged men stroking each other’s egos and too self absorbed and entitled to understand that even thoughtless stupidity carries consequences and should. Being a public figure carries many benefits and advantages ( and in both these men ridiculous salaries) and that has to be counterbalanced by responsibility for the consequences of their actions. Do you remember that awful case in the USA where two women got sacked for online posts about Michelle Obama being ‘ an ape in heels’? Who knew that was racist eh?

I think it was an extremely silly and rather nasty thing to do.

Well Baggs why comment at all on this thread when you have that level of ignorance?!

Perhaps Baggs would like to console him.

Nope. I wasn't defending him, just trying to point out, without anyone understading, that 'racist' is used for things that it shouldn't be used for in my opinion.

Consider yourself now well informed Baggs. Now that's it's been explained to you, and knowing that Danny Baker is very well aware of what monkey means in relation to a black person, do you still think it's just mob outrage?

Or are all these coloured people just too sensitive nowadays