Should He Have Been Sacked?

[Barsel]

The actor who plays Shariff in Corrie has been sacked for making racist tweets, do you think this deserves instant dismissal?

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/coronation-street-star-marc-anwar-sacked-from-soap-after-astonishing-racist-twitter-attack/ar-BBwAQxA?li=BBoPWjQ

[douglas9401]

"..astonishing racist Twitter attack."

Astonishing because of the content or because brown people hate other brown people?
Welcome to the real world.

[hc4361]

Barsel was merely quoting 'astonishing'.

[anotheoldgit]

It is a wonder that the police haven't become involved ie racist remarks, hate crime etc?

[hc4361]

There is still time, AOG

[THECORBYLOON]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/marc-anwar-face-police-investigation-8910731

[Mamyalynne]

Of course he should go.

[Baldric]

Yes he should go, richly deserved imo.

[weecalf]

Close the whole programme for 4 years and if people get on all right with out it don't bring it back ,than try it with least endears ,strictly. X factor ,brown awful show all the grub shows ,talent shows and wait for it all bond films .Is that okay

[vetuste_ennemi]

//The Pakistan-born actor – TV’s love cheat Sharif Nazir – branded Indians “b*******” and “p***-drinking c****”.//

Why would anybody who's outgrown the kindergarten care a fig about this rant?
Why is PC Plod wasting his time and our money looking into this?

[Mamyalynne]

v_e, you may be happy to employ someone who not only thinks like that but puts it out to the world - I'm glad the TV production company think differently.

[Mamyalynne]

I was responding to 'care a fig'

Re the Police, if reported to them they have a duty to look into it.

[Barsel]

When other things have happened with the actors in Corrie, e.g Michael LeVell (sp?), there were cries of, 'I'm not watching Corrie again, and if he comes back, I won't watch it again. So I was wondering if they hadn't sacked Marc Anwar would people be saying this again apart from our Indian community. I don't think they had any other choice really because of how his fellow actors would react to him.

[hc4361]

Chris Fountain, another Corrie actor, was sacked after making a hate rap video even though he was wearing a mask and using a false name.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//you may be happy to employ someone who not only thinks like that but puts it out to the world//

"Thinks like that", Mamya? Are you saying that people who have unpleasant opinions should be barred from employment? That's not going to do a lot of good for the unemployement stats, you know.

As for "out to the world", who apart from his mates or a professional hate-speech hunter would be reading this rant? It was a tweet, wasn't it? But supposing an "Indian" (I think he meant Hindu given the fact that the rant seems to have been inspired by recent deaths in the disputed Kashmir territory) did stumble on the tweet. So what? Why would any grown-up waste a second of his time in order to take "offence" at a piece of nonsense?

As for hate speech, well, you can ban speech, but you can't ban hate. It has been argued, rightly or wrongly, that banning such speech is likely to increase hate. Wasn't Mr. H banged up for breaking the Weimar republic's hate speech laws?

[piggynose]

doesn't this smack of double standards? if somebody butchered and killed 30 people from say the uk, surely a rant like this would be expected, so if say 30 actors reacted the same as that sacked actor, would they really lose their current jobs and be blacklisted?

[Lie-in King]

Of course he needed to be removed from the programme.

By all means, think what you like but keep it to yourself if saying it out loud will jeopardise your livelihood &/or standing in the wider world - works for me, I'd have been banned from AB years ago if I didn't do just that.

[Mamyalynne]

I perhaps should have put the 'World' in inverted commas, however when you publish something on the internet you are effectively making it available to everyone.

Re his anger, that he is entitled to but I feel you should be able to express your disgust, horror and shock at situations without resorting to such speech (however 'asterisk' hidden it is).

[ivor4781]

naomi24 " drunken tirade" ? he's Muslim ,they don't touch alcohol