I still have no idea what it was supposed to be.

I'm not claiming he was being racist. I'm claiming I have no idea what the joke is. 'He has a thing for pictures of monkeys" doesn't explain what the joke here was.

Monkeys doing human stuff is funny. That’s the joke I think.

I can’t remember for certain who it was but I nearly changed my avatar once to, I think, Stringer Bell. I realised at some point that there was room there for some horrific misinterpretation so I didn’t do it. End of pointless anecdote.

Baker has some issues with class too (not lack of - think Corbett/Barker/Cleese). It seems to be a dig, not a racist gag.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Baker has some issues with class too (not lack of - think Corbett/Barker/Cleese). It seems to be a dig, not a racist gag.

 
This.
I'm not anti-royal. Happy for them to exist but the endless fawning over them is tedious.

cockbeard wrote:

Censoring yourself because the twitterati will take offense is just as ridiculous a concept as the beeb having climate change deniers or antivaxers on telly for 'balance'

And This. What David Icke in his more lucid periods calls "the mob" - playing to that gallery is a particular bit of madness that the public seems to tolerate.

And if you make a living playing a certain game then you have to go along with the rules.

However the race card does seem to be on a hair trigger.

How do you do visual gags on a radio show?

Once again. Sincere apologies for the stupid unthinking gag pic earlier. Was supposed to be joke about Royals vs circus animals in posh clothes but interpreted as about monkeys & race, so rightly deleted.

"Royal watching not my forte. Also, guessing it was my turn in the barrel."

Royals are circus animals then? I don't really see it. Maybe its just not funny.

Fwiw I don't think he meant it as racist but he's in media and self aware enough to be smart enough to not have done it

Ignorance to knowing who Prince Harry's Wife is? As a radio DJ? I can't quite truck with it. As I said, I don't think it was meant in any way intentionally, but as someone with that influence, in the media, you do your homework.

We quite often, due to nice connections, have people from radio / media / ads come into our school, and the biggest thing they say to our kids is, your social media footprint is your identity.

LivDiv wrote:

We can all make mistakes, none of us are perfect.
He handled it in a perfectly reasonable manner.

I am 100% sure he is aware of the "monkey" racism thing, just didnt link the two before posting. Easily done. 
If every time someone saw a monkey they thought of black people, that would be more alarming.

It is a storm in a teacup that the BBC have overreacted to, I suspect in an opportunist way.

I'm also not getting rid of the opportunist BBC element. I'm just saying that as someone with that level of influence he should have thought things through.

I disagree with your bit about monkey / black. You are posting openly on the internet. I wonder how people would react were it a Twitch streamer / YouTube personality. Unfortunately that's part of the package. There's an interesting thing that a Forth One DJ said to our Higher Media pupils last year in that there are going to be a number of jobs going in radio over the next few years because the old guard just don't know how to handle their social media presence.

People reacted, he apologised and removed the picture.
To me that is perfectly reasonable given his explanation and lack of any history of racism.

If people want their pound of flesh that is on them but I dont think stringing up Baker for this does anything to help race relations.

regmcfly wrote:

We quite often, due to nice connections, have people from radio / media / ads come into our school, and the biggest thing they say to our kids is, your social media footprint is your identity.

This sounds more toxic than anything Danny Baker came out with.

monkey wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

We quite often, due to nice connections, have people from radio / media / ads come into our school, and the biggest thing they say to our kids is, your social media footprint is your identity.

This sounds more toxic than anything Danny Baker came out with.

To go with Sparky's post, again, I don't think anything malicious was meant, but this is our modern world. Everything is ripe for choice. If you look at the training current bbc trainees get, a lot of it is "delete your old self". It's a lot of self protection.

I'm an educator. I am the most likely person to move into politics. Imagine the shit everyone would have on me were I wanting to do so.

monkey wrote:

He didn’t take care when posting something on the world’s most racist and simultaneously the world’s most oversensitive website. A toxic mix that cost him his job. He’ll be picked up by one of the other stations, won’t go near twitter again and that will be that.

Monkey has actually nailed it.