Re: FFS! Bruce Forsyth is now 'racist'!!! Sheesh...

Maria wrote:
|| Bubba Squirtfest wrote:
||| http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1223308,00.html
|||
||| Bruce Forsyth has been accused of making a racist gag during an
||| appearance before the Oxford Union.
|||
||| The legendary entertainer - recently awarded a CBE - improvised
||| when a student's mobile phone rang during his address.
|||
||| He grabbed the handset and, on learning the woman's non-English
||| speaking mum was on the other end of the line, said into the phone:
||| "One chicken Korma."
|||
||| When it rang again, he added: "And some poppadoms."
|||
||| Most members of the audience laughed but some students walked out.
|||
||| Modern history student Howard Amos said: "People laughed but
||| awkwardly.
|||
||| "If I was the student concerned, I would definitely have been
||| offended. It was a racist comment."
|||
||| However, the Taski Ahmed, 20, a psychology student whose phone
||| sparked the impromptu joke, said she found it funny.
|||
||| "You could say that Bruce was being old-fashioned and racist but he
||| was just being funny," she said.
|||
||| "If you take it out of context, it is easy to be offended by it. I
||| I had been offended, I don't think everyone would have laughed."
|||
||| Taski said she met Forsyth afterwards and "we had a laugh about it".
|||
||| The entertainer, 78, said: "The comments were not racist. That is
||| all I want to say."
|||
||
|| Blimey. It'a amazing how most of these cases which are reported, the
|| 'victim' isn't actually the person who is offended. What a touchy
|| nation we have become.
|| Out with the Chinese Laundry jokes then!


I tend to agree with Jim Bowen (who was on the radio this morning) when he
said that it's gone beyond freedom of speech , it's freedom of thought which
is now under attack.








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