To think Radio 5 host Danny Baker cannot stay at the BBC?

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Sorry if theres a post on this already.
Link www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7009283/BBC-Radio-5-Live-host-Danny-Baker-tweets-racist-Royal-Baby-monkey-image.html

He ought to go immediately.

*People saying he is ignorant or stupid-he really, really isn’t!

Cool. Which leaves openly racist then?* i say both an idiot and racist

@findingmyfeet12

Comments about primates are not "taken to be racist"

They can be.

If you have a man who looks white and they are referred to as 'an absolute gorilla. Strong, well built , difficult to get the ball off'.

What would be your thoughts?

A). He is being likened to a gorilla as it is an equally strong, formidable creature?
B) He is being likened to a gorilla because even though he appears white he must have black ancestors and the writer is being racist?

My thoughts would be A) is would most readers, but when someone close to said football pointed out he has black ancestors it becomes B)

I've already said that the comment is racist imo regardless of intention.

In your example - it's still a racist comment.

I wonder what he typed in to look for an image?

"Tanith
Why don’t you save your concern for racism aimed at a newborn infant."

Why don't you answer the question, Ghanagirl, instead of trying to deflect?

I'll ask again: Where is the racism in Dermymc's post? And why do you assumeDermymcis white?

Bubblegum- do you come from Hartlepool?

He's an arsehole.

Always has been.

“If you have a man who looks white and they are referred to as 'an absolute gorilla. Strong, well built , difficult to get the ball off”

Oh come on! Have you ever, ever heard that?

Never ever heard of the "monkey blood" to describe the ice cream sauce.

I grew up in London and we had lots of ice creams from the various vans after school. Never heard it described as that!

@Bubblegumicecream

Weird

Alan Sugar wrote a racist tweet about a football club and the BBC didn't do a thing

The DofE has made a career out of racism.

Of course the tweet was racist. It's Baker's behaviour after the event that is even more worrying.

Irish people were depicted in the British press as apes as well.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment#/media/File:Monkeyirishman.jpg

So it's not confined to colour per se. However, I cannot believe that Baker did not know anything about the new baby and his familial heritage. Is his studio on Mars?

If I was any form of celebrity I would avoid ever mentioning any primates in conversation/social media etc. Whether innocent or otherwise it's bound to get linked to racism.

To be quite frank, if i were a celebrity I'd steer clear of social media full stop. Let off your brain farts to all and sundry and the possibility that evet ill thought out piece of nonsense you've ever written is easily searchable.

Oh come on! Have you ever, ever heard that?
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Actually I call my Dh a silver back all the time because he bloody looks like one when sitting on the floor

Never ever heard of the "monkey blood" to describe the ice cream sauce

Very common name for it here (North-East). The green sauce used to be called 'dragon's blood", but is now "hulk's blood".

Yet more evidence of DB's intelligence? Tweeted about the Royal couple - with a picture - making a witticism about a name for the baby but didn't know which couple it was when he sent the offensive tweet, it gets worse.

He has been around long enough to know that was totally unacceptable and would be seen as racist. His comments afterwards don't improve him either. It's disappointing to see people who also should know better publicly backing him.

@Tanith
I have no idea what colour she is but it’s became pretty standard on threads critical of Meghan Markle for posters to say horrible things then say I can’t be racist because (see my previous post).
Also she denied that DB’s post was racist and said that people who thought he was are the problem.
Now answer my question why are you more interested in defending that poster questioning me instead of focusing on a new mother and infant being subjected to racism?

Stolen from Twitter “BBC: “we can no longer have Danny Baker broadcasting given the possible interpretation of his tweet as racist and therefore... oh hello Mr Farage, your usual seat?””

Is Farage being paid (handsomely) by the BBC?

I wonder what the Mountbatten-Windsors thought of it.

To MM: appalling man, he never was any good. Now, where did I put The Telegraph?

To Harry: well, you just have known to expect such things. Is it teatime yet?

The problem Danny Baker has is that he's not racist enough to see that image and make a connection to race.

Give it a generation or two and that tweet would go by without any offence taken, as no one would make the connection. He's just stuck in the awkward in-between stage, where he doesn't make the link, but you bet some people will.

Of course, I'm sure he wished he'd noticed the connotation. And you can legitimately accuse him of not being sensitive enough. But anyone who thinks he was aware of the connotation and just thought it would be a laugh is a complete lunatic.

They're probably thinking 'Thank God someone has been openly racist and has been criticised for it, rather than having all the barely disguised racism we've had to put up with for 2 years being condoned and encouraged by the media"

No, Farage is neither employed or paid by the BBC, it’s a ridiculous comparison.