Clarkson Recommends Executing Striking Workers In The Interest Of "Balance".

[fatpie42]

Comments

[chaya]

"I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families."

[arisma]

This was my question, actually! I thought it was the same guy.

[derezzed]

yup, he constantly spews sexist, racist and homophobic bile. People seem to excuse him either on the grounds that he's part of one of the BBC's most popular programmes (this tends to be the BBC stance) or he's just standing up against this ~PC gone mad!!~ world we live in.

Either way he's never really faced any serious repercussions for the consistently offensive and prejudiced bullshit he comes out with, all the while helping to contribute to an atmosphere or prejudice and hate.

[kyra_neko_rei]

You wonder if he would've troubled himself to avoid this shit if he had been called on it hard the first time.

Instead, he lives in a world where that's OK, and he helps create a world where that's OK.

Why can't he be awesome like the Mythbusters? Funny show full of shenanigans with no hurtful bigotry in sight.

[derezzed]

Basically because people like being hateful, rude, offensive and prejudiced and discard any opinions contrary to this as political correctness gone mad. JC is the poster boy for this and a rotten person.

[hirra_chan]

I'm Mexican and I'm trying so hard to not scream at that comment.

DDDDDDDDDDDD:

[fatpie42]

To be as fair as possible, when they played a clip from the Top Gear show on the radio in the news report I heard, it turned out that it actually starts with them describing cars in terms of stereotypes related to their countries of manufacture. As such it's made very clear that they are messing with stereotypes rather than making a serious comment about people.

Unfortunately, even bearing that in mind, the "joke" goes on far too long and becomes increasingly offensive the longer they spend on it. Still, it did at least start as a naff gag about stereotypes rather than a personal attack on a particular nation. (Then again, the initial naff gag was from Richard Hammond and then Jeremy Clarkson took it too far, so...)