[kj] OT I'm not racist but....

[Janean Lancaster]

Well said.

 

I agree, the bullying is not particularly racially motivated - it's a
class issue.  Jodie Marsh was badly bullied on last year's Celeb Big
Brother, nothing much was made of that.  But like you said, this is what
happens when uneducated people are on screen.

 

This series' ratings had taken a nosedive until this.

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]
On Behalf Of Neil Perry
Sent: 19 January 2007 13:20
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT I'm not racist but....

 

As I type, Gordon Brown's visit to India is on the BBC news, he is in
Bollywood, making a statement about Big Brother. Both he and Tony Blair
made public
statements about BB quicker than they did about the execution of Saddam.
Our society really has gone mad (with apologies to mad people).

I haven't watched much of it either but working in the meeja I can't
avoid it. Rather than the whole race issue, what really depresses me is
that these people on our screens are the product of the British
education
system. One of them thought eskimos are a type of animal; another
thought
Winston Churchill was a (black) American president. It's funny, for a
while, until you remember that there are millions more people like them
out there. That is the real scandal. 
But put uneducated people on screen, this is what you are going to get.
The white women's bullying of the Indian women has been vile, but I
don't think it was particularly racially-motivated. Just
ignorance-motivated. Channel4 must be *very* happy with the result. 

N

Dave Noonan <noonan.hq at ntlworld.com> wrote:

As someone who has passionately objected to and done my level best to
avoid 'big brother' since its inception - how have the recent
inescapable actions been viewed through the eyes of the Gatherers and
does it affect your view of England...or is it just a load of
sensationalist shite designed to cause reaction and little else? How far
has the furore reached?


Dave
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