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Jeremy Clarkson, The 'N-word' and the Creeping Tyranny of Political Correctness
breitbart.com ^ | 5/5/2014 | James Delingpole

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: racists; topgear
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I like the original Top Gear from the brits a LOT more than our US version. Now, what was the issue again? I didn't even know Jeremy had gotten in trouble.
1 posted on 05/06/2014 7:10:50 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

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.


2 posted on 05/06/2014 7:12:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Man I’m I getting really tired of the perpetually offended. I’m almost to the point of being offended. :>}


3 posted on 05/06/2014 7:14:54 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: rktman

Your post offends me.


4 posted on 05/06/2014 7:16:50 AM PDT by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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.


5 posted on 05/06/2014 7:18:54 AM PDT by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
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To: rktman
The Brit Top Gear is the best by far. As for Jeremy Clarkson getting into trouble, check out the "Controversy" section of his Wiki, It's hilarious. He pokes fun at the PC idiots quite a bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson

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.

6 posted on 05/06/2014 7:19:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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.


7 posted on 05/06/2014 7:24:30 AM PDT by drbuzzard (All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
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To: rktman

Born in 1964 in Illinois, to non-politically correct parents in a very republican county. Was always Tiger to us.


8 posted on 05/06/2014 7:25:17 AM PDT by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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To: Pecos

Actually the recording never even went live (according to the link in the article). It seems to be me he was set up.


9 posted on 05/06/2014 7:26:37 AM PDT by drbuzzard (All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
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To: sharkhawk
Born in 1964 in Illinois, to non-politically correct parents in a very republican county. Was always Tiger to us.

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.

10 posted on 05/06/2014 7:28:32 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: rktman
Can someone explain to me why are we afraid to use words... As an american, I thought I had freedom of speech... Oh wait... I forgot... I'm a white man....  photo FREETAPE_zpsf9a7ab1e.png
11 posted on 05/06/2014 7:37:21 AM PDT by baddog 219
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Making...less than politically correct statements...is part of Jeremy Clarkson's public persona. He is sort of the Don Rickles of the UK, someone who gets a pass because...well, he's been doing it so long, it's just expected. That is why there seems to be more of a controversy about it here in the United States than there is in England, where most people just shrug and say “Well, that's just Clarkson being Clarkson.” But the fact is that he and Top Gear are one of the BBC’s biggest money makers. So nothing will happen to him, he will mutter some scripted apology, take a long holiday to let the controversy burn out, then be back on Top Gear next season, count on it.
12 posted on 05/06/2014 7:40:53 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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.


13 posted on 05/06/2014 7:43:33 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Pecos

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.


14 posted on 05/06/2014 7:45:43 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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In this interview with Jay Leno he says they he used to think going to America was like going to a prison and going home to Britain was like returning to a free country, now its the other way around.

Jay Leno Interview and Lap
15 posted on 05/06/2014 7:55:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: rktman

In rural/suburban Maryland in 1967 or so, it was already “Tiger”

I never heard the other variant until I was an adult.


16 posted on 05/06/2014 7:56:28 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: rktman

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.


17 posted on 05/06/2014 8:34:12 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: rktman

Offense has nothing to do with this story. It is a tool used to trap the left uses to destroy its enemies.


18 posted on 05/06/2014 8:39:30 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: sharkhawk

What did your parents call Brazil nuts?


19 posted on 05/06/2014 8:40:23 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

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.


20 posted on 05/06/2014 8:41:08 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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