Nadiya Hussain responds to critics

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Nadiya Hussain responds to critics

I can understand her being upset that her shows have been axed, apparently ratings were falling, However, I find it hugely disappointing that she has brought race/religion into it. No one is entitled to a BBC show and I think she has had a bloody good run. AIBU?

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All I can see is escalating strife.

Until we stop making EVERYTHING about race, we'll never live side by side in beautiful harmony.

I read the news stuff about this. I agree with the sentiment that people say she should be grateful because she's had great opportunities handed to her on the back of GBBO.

Well, what d’ya know…

I think cooking shows have to something extra like this to make them interesting these days. A competition, a 'reality show' element, or exotic locations. The 'stand and stir' genre is out of time.

'I am a firm believer that nothing is forever '

Oh dear how very embarrassing.

I just don't enjoy her as a presenter, perhaps others feel the same?

If I had a £1m a year job for doing something I found easy, and was made redundant after 10 years, I certainly wouldn’t expect people to feel sorry for me. I’d be gutted that the ride was over, but grateful I’d had the chance to experience it for so long.

This has F all about race, and more about the fact she’s made a shit ton of money doing something relatively easy, that most people don’t make £100 off, let alone what she’s earned.

It may sound rude but it’s also a fact, so it is what it is. My view on the status of people on tv has nothing at all to do with this thread; who cares if they impress me or not? Clearly, the gist of this discussion has eluded you; which, at this point, I find baffling.

I've watched her video and she articulates very well how being told to "be grateful" lands differently for her than it might for a white person, due to her and her parents' experiences as an immigrant family. I think she has every right to express this. It wouldn't "put me off" watching her shows -quite the opposite. Her public persona is almost overwhelmingly sweet and inoffensive/boring.

The fact that they are not celebrity status renders then unknown and random, the person being white is also pertinent to the point I was making. But, sure, the two of you go ahead and feel free to be offended🙄

There's so much here that I cbf to unpick it all — and frankly cbf to educate anyone on their own history they don't even know — so I think this will be my last reply.

Firstly, Brits know so ridiculously little about how utterly disgusting colonialism was — really shocking to me as we studied it to a great extent in school; it's like US states that don't teach about their own slavery and genocide, or Germans only learning about how the Third Reich provided incredible sanitisation and medical advances (which is true) — that ridiculously enough they feel self congratulatory about it, and they genuinely think they offered "safe haven" to many of their victims.

Secondly, are you saying the US offered you safe haven from your terrifying and inferior life in the UK? Because I've already said I'm not a refugee/immigrant in the UK — my country is better than the UK on many / most fronts, and I'm just here for an interesting experience and a paycheck. Of course I'm grateful for the nice people and things I've encountered here but just in a general life sense, not in any civic sense.

Or, if you're talking about Nadiya having to be grateful, when does it end for non white people? Because many non whites have been here for generations and generations, more than some white Brits, but the message that they are ultimately mere grateful guests lasts forever.

All good things come to an end, better to bow out with good grace. 10 years is a lot more than a lot of cooks get.

She was replying to mail and comments she’d received since her time with the BBC came to an end.

So the issue is a culture clash rather than racism?
It’s perfectly acceptable in British culture to tell someone, who’s had a cushy ride come to an end, to be just grateful that they had the opportunity.

So it’s ok for Nadia to feel offended but not for others?

Totally double standards.

It’s a long time for a fickle business. Sure there’ll be the normal reaction but it will be for everyone. Perhaps they all feel crest fallen when the ride is over. It’s just show biz

Either you didn’t actually listen to what she said or you are misinterpreting what she said; deliberately or otherwise.

This is a lovely example of what I mean by microaggressions / the repeated implication that Nadiya will never be British.

Subtly or not so subtly implying she doesn't understand British culture despite having been born and raised here.

People are always lovely until they deem you to have the wrong attitude, then you're not like them and don't know your place after all.

Or people have different interpretations?

Yes yes yes. Everything is racist. Even the existence and mention of British culture 🥱

Wow good for her so well said 👏🏻 👏🏻.

OP yabvvvu

You can’t simultaneously believe that it’s racist to tell someone to be grateful because it lands differently when they’re from another culture and ALSO that it’s racist to consider the fact they are from another culture.

Firstly, Brits know so ridiculously little about how utterly disgusting colonialism was —

What's a Brit though?