Should This Bbc Dj Have Been Sacked For What Was Just An Unfortunate Mistake?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2625248/BBC-sacks-DJ-playing-The-Sun-Has-Got-His-Hat-On-didnt-know-original-features-N-word-Clarkson-wasnt-fired-actually-saying-it.html

[jno]

if you aren't offended, it isn't offensive. The words are related.

Of course, if you're saying other people might be offended.... but no, you've often said how silly it is to protest on behalf of other people.

Mushroom, the BBC edited the video and replaced goons with baboons. I presume Gabriel was happy with that - if the alternative was no airplay.

I don't expect them to be playing much Lucille Bogan any time soon, though, not even on oldies shows.

[naomi24]

jno - try to play with words all you like - it doesn't detract from the fact that what you've written would be construed by many as offensive. Not nice in anyone's book.

[THECORBYLOON]

http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/tie-me-kangaroo-down-sport-was-racist-says-rolf-7171459.html

'Rolf Harris has apologised for using racist language in Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport - the hit song that launched his career.

The original words he wrote for the 1960 hit - sung to the accompaniment of his famous wobbleboard - included a verse referring to Aboriginal workers as if they were slaves.The opening lines tell of a dying stockman giving his friends instructions on how they should treat his pet animals, such as 'keep me cockatoo cool, Curl' and 'take me koala back, Jack'. However, in the fifth verse comes a slur on Australia's indigenous population: 'Let me Abos go loose, Lou, Let me Abos go loose. They're of no further use, Lou, so let me Abos go loose.'In an interview with Radio Scotland to be broadcast on Sunday, 76-year-old Harris admits that those lines were racist and he wished he had never written them.Asked whether he regretted having included the verse, he said: 'Of course - dear, oh dear.' He said he now has a 'great love and respect' for Aborigines.'

[sp1814]

Rolf Harris wrote 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down'????

I genuinely thought it was hundreds of years old.

Blimey.

[sp1814]

jno

I would just like to say - I read your post from earlier and could 'hear' the inferred wink.

(Much as you can hear a wink).

I wasn't offended.

[ludwig]

// I wasn't offended. //

Neither was I. Just a bit confused. The Uncle Remus language didn't add anything to the point being made.

[lady-janine]

no he should not have been sacked. it was an insult to offer to reinstate him after the public outcry.

poor man.

[yansee]

No ! BBC reeks of hypocrisy after slapping Clarksons wrist