DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
11-05-2014, 17:01
|
#16
|
|
Remoaner
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 32,228
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
Quote:
Originally Posted by heero_yuy
It'll become another networks successful export won't it? Trust the BBC to cut its nose off to spite its face.
|
Yeah but with the BBC it harms BBC Worldwide and the profits don't go back into the Beeb.
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 17:05
|
#17
|
|
vox populi vox dei
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: the last resort
Services: every thing
Posts: 13,739
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
i just read the lyrics i have to say it made me titter
__________________
To be or not to be, woke is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous wokedome, Or to take arms against a sea of wokies. And by opposing end them.
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 17:31
|
#18
|
|
The Invisible Woman
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: between Portsmouth and Southampton.
Age: 71
Services: VM XL TV,50 MB VM BB,VM landline, Tivo
Posts: 40,163
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
Well that rhyme is one I used as a child quite innocently..as for the song I didn't even realise it had racist lyrics..
__________________
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Shakespeare..
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 17:43
|
#19
|
|
Remoaner
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 32,228
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
Quote:
Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Tough, they should have thought of the consequences before being so silly.
|
I don't know. They clearly tried to try and find some middle ground between telling Clarkson not to use such language whilst letting him keep his job. They have given Top Gear a lot of leeway in the past as well.
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 18:25
|
#20
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Belfast
Posts: 4,785
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
Quote:
Originally Posted by heero_yuy
He didn't use the N word. The footage was not transmitted. They're just being silly. No middle ground required.
|
Clarkson himself seems to think he used it.
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 18:40
|
#21
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Right here!
Posts: 22,316
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
Quote:
Originally Posted by Maggy J
Well that rhyme is one I used as a child quite innocently..as for the song I didn't even realise it had racist lyrics..
|
Me too and in the eyes of some folks that makes us racist.  When are context and intent going to be considered in this debate I wonder...
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 19:07
|
#22
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: North Wales
Services: Plusnet Phone/BB, Freesat, VM Business BB (Cable)
Posts: 821
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
The one thing I find annoying about the coverage of these kinds of story is how everyone tiptoes around the exact language used (for fear of retribution no doubt). All the talk of F-words and N-words sounds like the discussions of children who are trying not to swear in front of mum and dad.
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 19:11
|
#23
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2004
Services: BB:M, TV:XL, Phone:M, Loyalty
Posts: 2,516
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Has_Got_His_Hat_On
Wasn't sure if it was that one, but yes, the original lyrics had it.
And as for the Jeremy Clarkson incident, surely the person leaking the unbroadcast material is the one who should be disciplined for it!
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 19:26
|
#24
|
|
81-82-83-84
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: on holiday by mistake
Age: 54
Services: Vivid 200, Full House, V6 x2
Posts: 5,977
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
This is also the same BBC who allow the likes of Robbie Savage, Zane Lowe and that other boot-licking cretin Richard Bacon to steal a living courtesy of our licence payers' money... and that's just the start of the list.
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 20:17
|
#25
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 16,325
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
We all need to grow up.
it's just a word.
a word that is thrown about freely by the people who we are being offended for.
there's a film being made today where 1 man calls the other this word. and it's going to be in the cinemas soon. and are we going to make a big fuss about the use of the word?
No. because it's a blockbuster movie. and the black man said it.
we're all mad.
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 20:22
|
#26
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: North Wales
Services: Plusnet Phone/BB, Freesat, VM Business BB (Cable)
Posts: 821
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
If this DJ had played a rap track with the same word contained would he have been sacked? (the nature of the programme notwithstanding)
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 20:28
|
#27
|
|
-
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Poole, Dorset
Age: 38
Services: FreeSat+
Tivo
V-Box
VM 60MBit
Posts: 13,365
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
I personally love the way he said no to his job back as it made an illness he was already suffering with worse.
Kerching!
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 21:28
|
#28
|
|
Believe in yourself ...
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Here & there ...
Services: tv phone mobile broadband V6 and tivo.
Posts: 5,252
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
Quote:
Originally Posted by Maggy J
Well that rhyme is one I used as a child quite innocently..as for the song I didn't even realise it had racist lyrics..
|
When I was younger I used to sing a lot of rhymes that I thought were just fun jolly songs "or so I thought" but now I know the words were wrong but to me as a young girl they were just songs and a way of picking who was to be the seeker in hide and seek.
__________________
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 22:25
|
#29
|
|
Guest
Services: BT Infinity 80Mb down, 20Mb upload. Syncing @ 148Mb down, 44Mb up. TRUELY UNLIMITED/UNMANAGED/UNTHRO
Posts: n/a
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
Well according to the BBC today the Church of England is racist. Yeah that's right everyone in the C of E is racist LMAO. Only the BBC hey.
If the word England wasn't in the name they wouldn't have said such a thing. How stupid do you have to be to brand a whole "church" as racist lol. I'm sure there may well be racist members, just like there maybe racists within Islam but no way can you brand the whole thing racist.
Out of 2 archbishops 1 is black An 1 is white, Jesus Christ isn't even white. Good old BBC
|
|
|
|
|
11-05-2014, 22:44
|
#30
|
|
-
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Somewhere
Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone
Posts: 26,536
|
Re: DJ David Lowe loses job over racist word
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bogof
Well according to the BBC today the Church of England is racist. Yeah that's right everyone in the C of E is racist LMAO. Only the BBC hey.
If the word England wasn't in the name they wouldn't have said such a thing. How stupid do you have to be to brand a whole "church" as racist lol. I'm sure there may well be racist members, just like there maybe racists within Islam but no way can you brand the whole thing racist.
Out of 2 archbishops 1 is black An 1 is white, Jesus Christ isn't even white. Good old BBC
|
Any link for that? Just searched their website and found nothing recent.
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 16:43.
|
Join CF
You are here: 
