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Post by Lurker Sat Sep 28, 2019 2:38 pm

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The BBC faced a backlash Friday after finding one of its presenters in breach of its editorial guidelines on impartiality for comments that were critical of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Journalists and celebrities were demanding that the BBC overturn its decision and expressed support for BBC Breakfast anchor Naga Munchetty, who was discussing Trump's remark that four female American lawmakers should return to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came."

Co-anchor, Dan Walker, asked Munchetty for her opinion on the July 17 program, and she responded: "Every time I have been told, as a woman of color, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism .... I'm not accusing anyone of anything here, but you know what certain phrases mean."

Questioned further by Walker, she said she was "absolutely furious a man in that position thinks it's OK to skirt the lines by using language like that."

The BBC found that Munchetty had gone too far.

"She understandably feels strongly on this issue, and there was nothing wrong with her talking about her own experiences of racism," the BBC said in a statement. "However, our editorial guidelines do not allow for journalists to then give their opinions about the individual making the remarks or their motives for doing so — in this case President Trump — and it was for this reason that the complaint was partially upheld. Those judgments are for the audience to make."

Across social media, there was disquiet over the broadcaster's decision. That sentiment was plainly put in a letter to the Guardian newspaper on Friday, in which some 40 locally prominent celebrities offered support to the presenter.

"Racism is not a valid opinion on which an 'impartial' stance can or should be maintained," the signatories said in the letter. "For communities and individuals who experience racist abuse — including Munchetty — being expected to treat racist ideas as potentially valid has devastating and maybe illegal consequences for our dignity and ability to work in a professional environment, as well as being contrary to race equality and human rights legislation."

It added that to "suggest a journalist can 'talk about her own experiences of racism' while withholding a critique on the author of racism (in this case President Trump) has the ludicrous implication that such racism may be legitimate and should be contemplated as such."
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Post by Lurker Sat Sep 28, 2019 2:39 pm

Fuck Trump!!!!!!!!
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Post by nicko Sat Sep 28, 2019 4:32 pm

No thanks, I prefer his Wife !
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nicko wrote: No thanks, I prefer his Wife !

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Post by Original Quill Sat Sep 28, 2019 6:35 pm

ABC News wrote:Naga Munchetty, who was discussing Trump's remark that four female American lawmakers should return to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came.

More RW convoluted pc. It's like you can't call a person who robs banks, a 'bank robber'...lest you offend someone who hangs around with robbers.

The President is a racist. Once we anchor that fact, we are perfectly free to comment upon it. Rolling Eyes

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Post by eddie Sun Sep 29, 2019 2:12 am

Original Quill wrote:
ABC News wrote:Naga Munchetty, who was discussing Trump's remark that four female American lawmakers should return to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came.

More RW convoluted pc.  It's like you can't call a person who robs banks, a 'bank robber'...lest you offend someone who hangs around with robbers.

The President is a racist.  Once we anchor that fact, we are perfectly free to comment upon it.  Rolling Eyes

Isn’t his wife from somewhere other than America? Just clarifying whether you mean he doesn’t like people of a different colour or a different race.
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Post by eddie Sun Sep 29, 2019 2:16 am

Trump’s Black Ex-Girlfriend Doesn’t Think He’s Racist

Kara Young said it was “not my experience” that the future president was a White supremacist sympathizer.


https://newsone.com/3732475/trump-not-racist-black-girlfriend-kara-young/
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Post by 'Wolfie Sun Sep 29, 2019 3:04 am

eddie wrote:Trump’s Black Ex-Girlfriend Doesn’t Think He’s Racist

Kara Young said it was “not my experience” that the future president was a White supremacist sympathizer.


https://newsone.com/3732475/trump-not-racist-black-girlfriend-kara-young/
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Trump might well have not been a racist a couple of decades ago...

However, there is no denying that he has become an opportunistic 'professional' racist/white supremacist since back when Barack Obama first ran for presidential office..

Trump may well be an idiot, but he and his backers are still savvy enough to recognise that the racist, white supremacist, 'evangelical' and anti-government voting blocs were instrumental in gainig him his own presidency.
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Post by Original Quill Sun Sep 29, 2019 4:23 am

eddie wrote:
Original Quill wrote:

More RW convoluted pc.  It's like you can't call a person who robs banks, a 'bank robber'...lest you offend someone who hangs around with robbers.

The President is a racist.  Once we anchor that fact, we are perfectly free to comment upon it.  Rolling Eyes

Isn’t his wife from somewhere other than America? Just clarifying whether you mean he doesn’t like people of a different colour or a different race.

Trump's wife is of Teutonic origin, from Slovania.  So is his first wife, Ivana, from the Czech Republic.  Teutonic people are the whitest of the white, of the Caucasian race.  They are a Germanic tribe of eastern Europe, from Finland and the Baltic, down to Austria/Hungary.  They are the blond haired, blue-eyed, high cheekbone people like Michele Pfeiffer and Charlize Theron, Christie Brinkley and David Bowie.

Trump's wife is more white than he is.  What Trump is racist about are people of color, like blacks and Latinos.

Here is Melania, with that classic steely-eyed Teutonic-German look, enhanced by the high cheekbones.

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Post by nicko Sun Sep 29, 2019 7:21 am

'Aint she lovely !
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Post by Fred Moletrousers Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:53 am

nicko wrote:'Aint she lovely !

That gaze makes her look more like Herr Flick of the Gestapo to me (if you're not familiar with "Allo! Allo!" don't bother bother reading on...).

"Ach so, Von Smallhausen, haf you prepared ze whip und ze branding iron?"
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Post by Original Quill Mon Sep 30, 2019 12:12 am

Fred Moletrousers wrote:
nicko wrote:'Aint she lovely !

That gaze makes her look more like Herr Flick of the Gestapo to me (if you're not familiar with "Allo! Allo!" don't bother bother reading on...).

"Ach so, Von Smallhausen, haf you prepared ze whip und ze branding iron?"

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Post by Lurker Mon Sep 30, 2019 12:04 pm

If she had as many sticking out of her as she's had stuck in her she'd look like a porcupine.
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