Posted on 05/06/2014 7:10:50 AM PDT by rktman
On the day the Jeremy Clarkson "N" word story broke, I was sitting with friends of the same age in their kitchen, trying to remember when it was that the children's choosing rhyme "Eeny meeny minie mo" (or however you spell it: there are myriad variants) transmuted into its politically correct, N-word free modern version.
First, I seem to recall, the offending word was changed to "tigger". Then - so that even the memory of the unfortunate rhyme was expunged - it became "tiger." Today, most children who recite the poem probably aren't even aware of its sinister, "racist" past. But for my generation - which is pretty much Clarkson's generation: anyone born before, say, 1970 - it was so unexceptionable as to pass without comment, even were you to be overheard using it in front of your left-wing teacher in your kindergarten classroom.
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He apparently made one of his wry cracks using a term that is supposedly a slur directed at Asians. Must be Britspeak as I was totally unfamiliar with it.
Some aggrieved victim group yesterday asked President Obama to ban further US Broadcast of Top Gear.
Don’t think he’s not looking for a way.
Man I’m I getting really tired of the perpetually offended. I’m almost to the point of being offended. :>}
Your post offends me.
The term Clarkson used was decidedly racist. And I say that as a person that is not even remotely PC. He used a term that “enjoyed” some use by Americans 60-70 years ago, I believe. The term may have seen continued use by the Brits since then. The really stupid part was that BBC could have done a voice over of the comment, but chose not to. Clarkson has gotten more and more irksome in his anti-American comments this past year or two, so maybe this was BBC’s way of letting him show himself out the door.
As far as this current issue, well you know how it is, they can call each other anything, if a white does it they are to be banned from the world.
Actually if you read the article, it does link to the actual charge against him. He used the ‘n word’ during a recording which never made it on the air and has already apologized for it. It became an issue when the Daily Mirror got ahold of the recording and made a hoopla over it. Someone who doesn’t like him at the BBC probably set him up.
Born in 1964 in Illinois, to non-politically correct parents in a very republican county. Was always Tiger to us.
Actually the recording never even went live (according to the link in the article). It seems to be me he was set up.
Born on the same day that the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was handed down, in NJ, to non-politically correct parents in a very GI-Democrat working-class county. Was always Bullfrog to me.
The recent “controversy” is over something he said that SOUNDED like an unapproved word in an unused take from several years ago. At the time he wrote a notation to editors that he didn’t want it used because of what it sounded like.
Someone has been sitting on the tape and is using it for effect and the bottom feeders in this country both left AND right are happily getting in on the act.
Let Clarkson be Clarkson. If you take seriously his pokes at Americans then you’re probably too sensitive. He once asked a dark-skinned audience member, on camera, what his favorite car to steal was. I don’t recall any big curfuffle about that, and the “victim” had a good laugh as well. TG without Clarkson is not TG, and I suspect the BBC needs him more than he needs the BBC.
In rural/suburban Maryland in 1967 or so, it was already “Tiger”
I never heard the other variant until I was an adult.
You are right...there is no comparison. The Brit version is superior specifically thanks to Clarkson’s wit and humor. There is no American equivalent to that kind of British conversation on reality tv. Or tv period. Mike Rowe comes close, but he’s still not as good as Clarkson.
Offense has nothing to do with this story. It is a tool used to trap the left uses to destroy its enemies.
What did your parents call Brazil nuts?
Correction from my previous post.
Offense has nothing to do with this story. It is a tool and a trap the left uses to destroy its enemies.
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