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Oh Danny, what have you done?

Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,576
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Danny Baker has just been fired by the BBC;


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48212693
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,576

    Here's the Tweet which caused the furore;


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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,576

    He quickly deleted it & Tweeted.....


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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,576

    Then, this morning, he has Tweeted.....


    Just got fired from @bbc5live.
    For the record - it was red sauce. Always.



    The call to fire me from @bbc5live was a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity. Took a tone that said I actually meant that ridiculous tweet and the BBC must uphold blah blah blah. Literally threw me under the bus. Could hear the suits knees knocking. #Fuckem





    Now Sky at the door
    Would have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or Boris Johnson kid or even one of my own. It's a funny image. (Though not of course in that context.) Enormous mistake, for sure. Grotesque.
    Anyway, here's to ya Archie, Sorry mate.
    #Occam #Razor



    Here we go.
    Opened door, grinning Mail hack.
    "Do you think black people look like monkeys?"
    Any other time you'd knock someone right on their **** for saying that.
    No mate. Gag pic. Posh baby chimp. Alerted to circs. Appalled. Deleted. Apologised.
    He asks again! #MailonRacism







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  • TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,686
    Surely the people who see a picture of a monkey and immediately relate to black people are the ones with a problem. Very 70's.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,576
    TheEdge949 said:

    Surely the people who see a picture of a monkey and immediately relate to black people are the ones with a problem. Very 70's.


    Agreed.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,576

    Danny has been back on Twitter this morning;


    Good morning, everyone.
    Following one of the worst days of my life I just want to formally apologise for the outrage I caused and explain how I got myself into this mess.
    I chose the wrong photo to illustrate a joke. Disastrously so.

    185 replies 195 retweets 1,238 likes
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    Danny Baker
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    @prodnose
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    In attempting to lampoon privilege & the news cycle I went to a file of goofy pictures & saw the chimp dressed as a Lord and thought, "That's the one!" Had I kept searching I might have chosen General Tom Thumb or even a a baby in a crown. But I didn't. God knows I wish had.

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    Danny Baker
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    @prodnose
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    Minutes later I was alerted by followers that this royal baby was of course mixed race and waves of panic and revulsion washed over me. ****, what had I done? I needed no lessons on the centuries slurs equating simians and people of colour. Racism at it's basest.

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    Danny Baker
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    @prodnose
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    I am aware black people do not need a white man to tell them this. Deleting it immediately and apologising for the awful gaffe I even foolishly tried to make light of it. (My situation that is, not the racism involved.) Too late and here I am.

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    Danny Baker
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    @prodnose
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    I would like once and for all to apologise to every single person who, quite naturally, took the awful connection at face value. I understand that and all of the clamour and opprobrium I have faced since. I am not feeling sorry for myself. I **** up. Badly.

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    Danny Baker
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    @prodnose
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    But it was a genuine, naive and catastrophic mistake. There is of course little media/twitter traction in such a straight-forward explanation. The picture in context as presented was obviously shamefully racist. It was never intended so - seriously who on earth would 'go there'?

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    Danny Baker
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    Anyway i am now paying the price for this crass & regrettable blunder and rightly so. Probably even this final word from me will extend the mania. ('Dog whistle' anyone?) I would like to thank friends on here for their kinder words and once again - I am so, so sorry.

    10:36 AM - 10 May 2019
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  • mumsiemumsie Member Posts: 7,995
    I guess he'll land on his feet and bag a job somewhere when this has all died down.


    PR for PG tips or something.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,576
    mumsie said:

    I guess he'll land on his feet and bag a job somewhere when this has all died down.


    PR for PG tips or something.



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  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,827
    edited May 2019
    He has already been on trial via Twitter, and the media, he has lost his job, now the police are involved. The same police that wont turn up to investigate a burglary.



    Police investigate Danny Baker's 'racist' royal baby tweet

    https://uk.yahoo.com/news/police-investigate-danny-bakers-royal-baby-tweet-203200496.html
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