Jeremy Clarkson article about Meghan

Not defending Clarkson whatsoever but I see that Frankie Boyle the ' comedian' has his show on BBC 2 this Christmas .New World Order.This comes after he refused to apologise for including in his stand in routine this summer at the Latitude festival that he would like to kill and rape Holly Willoughby. Well rape First obviously -were his words.I must have missed that.Where was the national outrage- and he gets a show on the BBC summing up 2022.Will he reference Meghan Markle and her treatment in the media I wonder?

Cant speak for here but there was certainly plenty of condemnation of FB on MN. He too is a misogynist.

What is the BBC thinking, Washerwoman

We all have to pay a licence fee so we should complain.

However, the arrogant BBC dismisses complaints about his shows so objecting is futile.

Anything to get a cheap laugh, as in Jo Brand wishing she had battery fluid to pour over Farage, and Miriam Margolyes wanting Boris to die, and Jimmy Carr joking about the extermination of gypsies in the holocaust.
Ne need to listen to any of them, including Clarkson , and Meghan Markle as well. Decreasing viewing figures are far more telling than pious complaints.

This country would be a far better place if people understood context and nuance.

Who's MN, please?

Oh, Mumsnet.

I probably need more coffee...

volver

This country would be a far better place if people understood context and nuance.

Who's MN, please?

Are you trying to tell us we don't understand Jeremy Clarkson's rant because we don't understand the nuanced subtlety of some of these excuses for comedy?
Frankie Boyle, Jimmy Carr?

Sorry, there no excuse for the verbal diarrhoea that emerges from the mouths of some of these people.

This country would be far better place if people didnt use debates on misogyny and racism to exert power over others.

Callistemon21

volver

This country would be a far better place if people understood context and nuance.

Who's MN, please?

Are you trying to tell us we don't understand Jeremy Clarkson's rant because we don't understand the nuanced subtlety of some of these excuses for comedy?
Frankie Boyle, Jimmy Carr?

Sorry, there no excuse for the verbal diarrhoea that emerges from the mouths of some of these people.

That's not what I said, not what I said at all What is the point of someone accusing you of saying something you never said? To pick a fight and make the other person look like a nasty specimen?

I am not defending Clarkson in any way, shape or form.

People certainly didn't understand the Jimmy Carr thing.

Listen to one sentence from a routine lasting a few minutes and condemn him for it, even though its been completely taken out of context. And he wasn't making jokes about the holocaust. He was criticising racists. Maybe too subtly for some.

I like Boyle, but he sometimes does go too far.

Unsurprisingly I would defend the right of all three of them to say what they did, even though I don't like two of them and have no views on the other. The alternative of deciding what speech is ok and what isnt (and who decides that) is much worse, and certainly worse for minority groups and those who experience prejudice.

"I had difficulty not wanting Boris Johnson to die, I wanted him to die, and then I thought that reflects badly on me and I don't want to be the sort of person who wants people to die."

"So, then I wanted him to get better, which he did do, he did get better, but he didn't get better as a human being and I really would prefer that."

Don't be honest about your thoughts on the Last Leg, that's the message.

Galaxy

Unsurprisingly I would defend the right of all three of them to say what they did, even though I don't like two of them and have no views on the other. The alternative of deciding what speech is ok and what isnt (and who decides that) is much worse, and certainly worse for minority groups and those who experience prejudice.

I would certainly never defend hate speech, which his what I thought Clarkson's article was.

But I do not believe that either Margolyes or Carr were indulging in hate speech because their comments are often quoted entirely out of context, and twisted to make them sound like something they are not.

Boyle - not sure.

My problem.is who gets to define hate speech. That makes me quite anxious.
I dont think Carr was using hate speech either, and in terms of his references to women Boyle couldnt have been, as misogyny isnt included in hate crime legislation. He probably could have fallen foul of it in terms of those with disabilities.

Galaxy

My problem.is who gets to define hate speech. That makes me quite anxious.
I dont think Carr was using hate speech either, and in terms of his references to women Boyle couldnt have been, as misogyny isnt included in hate crime legislation. He probably could have fallen foul of it in terms of those with disabilities.

as misogyny isnt included in hate crime legislation
Unfortunately,

It is not incitement to violence either although it could encourage others to act upon such expressed thoughts.