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.
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.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'
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."
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.
Lord_Griff wrote:"Live by the Monkey pic, die by the Monkey pic" is the family moto of the Bakers of Dagenham.
regmcfly wrote: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.
This sounds more toxic than anything Danny Baker came out with.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.
monkey wrote:This sounds more toxic than anything Danny Baker came out with.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.
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.
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