Re: BBC implements New Liebour "thought crime"


Maria wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:19:39 GMT, AlanG <ohovnwsirbpejv@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:54:53 GMT, Maria <frustated@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:04:08 GMT, 127.0.0.1@xxx (Fuckit) wrote:
> >>
> >>>http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005580166,00.html
> >>>
> >>>"
> >>>TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson was in hot water last night after making World
> >>>War II jokes.
> >>>
> >>>BBC bosses are investigating after a complaint from German industrialist
> >>>Lanbert Courth, who called Clarkson's behaviour on Top Gear "unpleasant
> >>>and disturbing".
> >>>"
> >>
> >>The Mirror commentary is much more interesting -
> >>
> >>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16486086&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=sieg-vile--name_page.html
> >>
> >>What a sad and pathetic country Britain is becoming.
> >
> >That's because we have so many arseholes like Clarkson and tabloid
> >editors.
> >
> >Whatever happened to politeness and courteous behaviour
>
> I don't know, but we were telling silly jokes about Nazis and Germans
> long before we stopped being polite. :)
> I'm happy to stop being rude about other races and nationalities when
> they are happy to stop being rude about the British,
>



What gets me is the way this sort of thing is so one-sided. It is
offensive to us to be told we can't make jokes about the Second World
War, so why isn't the boot on the other foot - why isn't the complainer
being criticised?

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