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

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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?

Let's just ban all humour because let's face it all jokes offend someone!

Again, where exactly is the 'humour' here? What is it about the juxtaposition between Senagalese professional footballers and poor beach peddlers that is just so rib tickling?

Yeah, I mean you can't even make outrageously racist jokes anymore without the PC merchants getting their knickers in a twist, what the fuck is the world coming to eh?

I literally can't believe people don't think this is offensive? Aren't you embarrassed to basically out yourself as racist? Have some shame for gods sake!

Exactly!!! My mind is blown that anyone could say it’s not. It’s not hypersensitivity; this is an example that could actually be used in a lesson on the concept of racism. It’s a totally pure example of it. Does the joke have a racial premise? Yep. Does it demean people belonging to a historically oppressed race? Yep. Is there anything else at all to the joke but those two elements? Literally nothing.

To all the people who deny that this is racist, is there ANYTHING you would admit is racist? Or do you just not think racism is real?

Let's just ban all humour because let's face it all jokes offend someone!

Where is the 'humour' in that tweet, exactly?

I refuse to believe that people are actually as ignorant as they are making out to be on this thread, so am assuming they are just being GFs.

I was going to try to highlight some of the outrageous stupidity and sheer bloody ignorance on this thread, but there's so much of it that I can't even start.

The sneery, thick comments are making many posters here look very, very bad.

If you think this is aimed at you, then it probably is.

YANBU, OP.

I refuse to believe that people are actually as ignorant as they are making out to be on this thread, so am assuming they are just being GFs.

Yeah, I think it's best not to feel the trolls.

To all the people who deny that this is racist, is there ANYTHING you would admit is racist? Or do you just not think racism is real?

Yes, could some of the 'political correctness gorn mad' brigade give examples of things they they would deem to be racist? Is there anything?!

Feed even.

It's possibly one of the most clearly racist 'jokes' I've ever seen. ^THIS

I literally can't believe people don't think this is offensive? Aren't you embarrassed to basically out yourself as racist? Have some shame for gods sake!

Thanks for answering my question, misspriggy. You don’t care about the context because it doesn’t affect you. That’s what I wanted to know.

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misspriggyy That is a vile thing to say, no wonder you found the joke funny.

YANBU, he should be sacked forthwith.

misspriggy I feel really sorry for you.

Good grief misspriggy one wonders how the hell you tie your shoelaces in the morning, your views are so neanderthal.

misspriggy you are embarrassing yourself.

Of course it’s racist!

How could he think it were funny and not racist?

misspriggy you really are a GF.

and this from Wheel
taking offence because a black man was shown on a Sainsbury’s tv advert eating a banana and so MUST be racist because someone, somewhere once said that black people look like monkeys and monkeys eat bananas. Really? Well, actually, it’s just a guy eating a banana!

You really think it was only "someone, somewhere who once said black people look like monkeys"

I'm literally gobsmacked. Fucking ignorance.

I suggest we all ignore 'Misspriggy'.

He/she is clearly a wind-up merchant on a mission.

Prob best to ignore misspriggy, it's clearly just out to have some unpleasant fun at other people's expense

Of course it’s racist. ‘A group of black men - ah, these are indistinguishable from an impoverished group of black men I’ve had selling/serving me’

So all black men who sell sunglasses on the beach are impoverished? Who's the racist?