To think Lord Sugar should be sacked from the BBC for his tweet?

[BlondeSea]

Earlier today Lord Sugar tweeted a photo of the Senegal football team with a caption along the lines of "I recognise these from the beaches in Marbella selling sunglasses!"

He doctored the image to add pictures of sunglasses. People challenged him online and he insisted it was funny and refused to apologise however since then he has apologised - he's obviously been forced to.

I won't add the image here, it's now been taken down but you can see it if you google it. AIBU to think this is disgusting, not funny, and he should be fired from the BBC?

Really, you feel you can call me racist for not hating a tweet that’s cool to hate and get all upset over, calling the author racist etc

Why do you think 'it's cool to hate' such things?

Really, you feel you can call me racist for not hating a tweet that’s cool to hate and get all upset over, calling the author racist etc.
FFS. It's not cool to hate it, it's fucking racist. Which bit aren't you getting, you're answering like a bloody sulky teenager, not a supposedly educated adult.

Night all, I’m out. Enjoy your silly virtue signalling quarrels, sweeties.

Yeah, go on, leave the thread without explaining how that tweet isn't racist. I hope you are embarrassed.

Night all, I’m out. Enjoy your silly virtue signalling quarrels, sweeties

Absolutley cringing for ya

How fucking dare you call someone racist. If I suddenly speak out against it, am I no longer so

You called it "sweet and a compliment". Many people have spoken out against it. But you called it "sweet and a compliment".

If you think people are 'virtue signalling", do you wonder what kind of signal your words give off?

There's a certain sense of twisted irony that Rebecca's parting post is also quite sexist.

I thought it was very funny.

Disgraceful.

Would it be funny to have a pic of Sugar and lots of little stereotypical anti Semitic Jewish money lenders gathering around?

No.

Anyone who thinks it’s funny to stereotype a whole nation in such a way needs to examine themselves.

Night all, I’m out. Enjoy your silly virtue signalling quarrels, sweeties

You're making yourself sound exceptionally foolish.

@Vicky1990 What made the joke funny? Can you explain why you find it funny?

No,,this country is so fucked up. You cannot make a joke about anything without some bunch of twats jumping all over it.

Has anyone seen the captioned photo of the Nigerian football team saying something along the lines of very sorry they let the fans down, are willing to refund ticket prices, for a refund please send your bank details, ect and something about a western union transfer or Paypal.
Can people see that as a joke and know what it refers to? (I haven’t worded it very accurately but you get the jist)

Has anybody here explained why this 'joke' is 'funny?

I know there have been several requests, but has anyone actually answered?

Someone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

No,,this country is so fucked up. You cannot make a joke about anything without some bunch of twats jumping all over it

I know. People just can't act like they did in the old days. Nowadays you get people calling out racism, sexism, homophobia etc.

It must be terrible for all those racists, sexists and homophobes out there.

It's always worrying when people slam those for calling out blatant, obvious racism as "do gooders"/ "the loony left"/ "virtue signallers".

I've found this thread really unnerving, because when I started it I didn't even contemplate anyone arguing that the tweet was not racist. I thought people would say he should keep his job (I thought they would be a minority) but I'm shocked at the number of people arguing that black is white no irony intended.

It's troubling.

Rebecca’s outrage at rightly being identified as an out-and-out racist by multiple people on this board is quite interesting from a psychological point of view.

I’ve often thought how strange it is that people who openly hold the most racist of views (for example people significantly worse than Rebecca even, EDL members/Britain First followers etc) are the most vehement about denying they’re racist. They spout absolute bile and when called out on it the reaction is always “I’m not racist, everyone else is just too sensitive.” What kind of cognitive dissonance does this entail? They obviously know racism is wrong if they’re bothering to deny it. Yet they’re also undeniably racist. What do they think racism is? Do they think there are other people even more racist than them who are the real racists?

Come back, Rebecca, I want to study you.

If there's one thing I've learnt from life it's that most people are absolute cunts blondesea.

Ha that’s so true sloth! A colleague once said some vile racist comments about young black men and then got quite irate protesting he isn’t racist, he looked utterly outraged at the suggestion and his evidence was “I talk to NKFell all the time and I love Motown”. It’s both fascinating and terrifying.

“SlothSlothSloth

Rebecca’s outrage at rightly being identified as an out-and-out racist by multiple people on this board is quite interesting from a psychological point of view.

I’ve often thought how strange it is that people who openly hold the most racist of views (for example people significantly worse than Rebecca even, EDL members/Britain First followers etc) are the most vehement about denying they’re racist. They spout absolute bile and when called out on it the reaction is always “I’m not racist, everyone else is just too sensitive.” What kind of cognitive dissonance does this entail? They obviously know racism is wrong if they’re bothering to deny it. Yet they’re also undeniably racist. What do they think racism is? Do they think there are other people even more racist than them who are the real racists?

Come back, Rebecca, I want to study you.”

Sooooo true!!!! I am vibrating in bed - this is so accurate.

Limpopobongo, perhaps you could be the one to explain why this is a joke? What exactly is funny about it?

Coming back to this thread to see if anyone has explained why this tweet was actually funny
Aaaand no one has.

Reading through the posts has actually made me quite sad and it's threads like this that make me realise why some people think MN has changed

There's a comment upthread where someone uses the phrase "kiddy fiddling" and implies that jokes about child abuse are sometimes amusing
I mean, WTAF

Laughing at black people is just funny Tante, apparently. Especially (successful) Africans. Because Africans are all poor migrants and an African doing well is cognitive dissonance. Or something

Quite a good thread for the spreadsheet, however.

Yeah, bloody hell, my bingo card filled up in an instant...