Is BBC racist?

[VectraMan]

He does deliver it very naturally. But the phrase is odd - if you were genuinely commenting on the incline, you'd say "It's sloping" or even "It's got a slope".

I thought it was odd at the time, though I like most had zero idea "slope" was a racist term. But when you see it now with the bloke on the bridge, it's pretty obvious it was deliberate.

A couple of billion people of Asian descent in the world, why has this one woman taken it upon herself to be offended? Surely claiming to speak for an entire race is in itself racist?

[TestMangler]

I thought it was odd at the time, though I like most had zero idea "slope" was a racist term. But when you see it now with the bloke on the bridge, it's pretty obvious it was deliberate.

A couple of billion people of Asian descent in the world, why has this one woman taken it upon herself to be offended? Surely claiming to speak for an entire race is in itself racist?

You've never seen Pulp Fiction ???

He’d be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright.

[VectraMan]

You've never seen Pulp Fiction ???

He’d be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright.

Yes, but I've never bothered memorising the dialogue.

[mudskipper]

A couple of billion people of Asian descent in the world, why has this one woman taken it upon herself to be offended? Surely claiming to speak for an entire race is in itself racist?

I think it's more the principle of the thing.

[AtW]

Yes, but I've never bothered memorising the dialogue.

What!??!?!

[stek]

Is 'porch monkey' racist?

[VectraMan]

I think it's more the principle of the thing.

And the 1 million pounds. Don't forget the 1 million pounds.

I wish Clarkson would offend my race.

[NotAllThere]

He does deliver it very naturally. But the phrase is odd - if you were genuinely commenting on the incline, you'd say "It's sloping" or even "It's got a slope".

Said with a Barnsley accent it sounds perfectly normal.

Does everyone offended by it get a million quid, or just asians? Is it shared out maybe? And which asians? Just those with epicanthic folds? Doesn't slope only refer to the latter?

What about asians who weren't offended? Or are they obliged to be? Half my family are of S.E. Asian decent - they think it's all a bit daft. Is that allowed?

[greenlake]

According to this (NSFW!), Jeremy Clarkson is a *** ****.

Jeremy Clarkson sorry after tweeting 'gay c**t' picture - Celebrity News - Digital Spy

[xoggoth]

Usual fuss over nothing. Would anyone care about such general remarks about the white British made by a foreign presenter? Can't imagine that nobody abroad doesn't make them.

Racist remarks made to an individual are a very different thing.