Posted on 11/13/2015 6:32:59 PM PST by markomalley
The former Top Gear producer who was punched and verbally abused by Jeremy Clarkson is suing the presenter and the BBC for racial discrimination.
Oisin Tymon was attacked in a row over food at a hotel in March which resulted in Clarkson's contract at the corporation not being renewed.
The senior producer attended a hearing at a London employment tribunal on Friday with lawyers for the BBC and Clarkson.
The law firm Slater And Gordon confirmed it is representing Mr Tymon.
Clarkson reportedly called his colleague a "lazy, Irish c***" during the confrontation.
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Which of these is a race? Lazy? Irish? or C***?
Would you accept being yelled at for the time Clarkson did and punched in the mouth?
Being called a "lazy, Irish c***" is worth 119,000 pounds? Walk into any bar in MT and you're likely to be called way worse than that.
I'd fight paying anything, right down to the last penny. Where is freedom of speech when one can be thus encumbered by a run if the mill insult?
He was assaulted. He was punched. Would you accept being punched? It looks like you would.
Of course I wouldn't accept being punched... The proper punishment would be meted out at that very moment- I would have kicked his ass - As any self-respecting Irish man (not to mention *any* man) should rightly understand (I myself am Dutch).
Free speech AND self-defense are not rights to be taken away by the machinations of the courts of men.
If I deserved it.
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