Reading back it on it all and what he said some time after, I think it was genuinely an oversight. It’s the only time I believe in a very long career that he appears to have done something racist and I can’t believe he’d knowingly have done something so overt.
not defending?
I wrote the paragraph you say is defending Samcro, and no, it's NOT defending. I said that in the context of all my other posts and assumed it would be read that way. I should have known you'd take it out of context.
The context of my other posts is that I very specifically said all along that while I did think it was an oversight rather than intended, it was a terrible lapse of judgment and he should have known better and his response was awful, making it about him being 'attacked' and his own hurt feelings, rather than the act itself. I said if he'd responded differently when pulled up about it, people might have let him off for not intending to be racist, but that his response was so arrogant and missing the point that he thoroughly deserved to be sacked for it.
I said, and I believe was the first to say it on this thread, that his long career and his speciality as a popular culture DJ meant he absolutely should have known better, and should have known that MM was mixed race (which I got wrong as thinking that was his excuse).
I deliberately chose to wrote in the post that you quoted from that the Sun debunked his excuse that he hadn't known who the royal baby belonged to; they posted his RT (retweet) of a post about Meghan and Harry's baby being born or imminent just a day or two before his tweet. Do you really think I'd have said that if I was defending him?
I don't like him - I said that earlier too. I've never met him but I've always thought he seemed misogynistic and yes, very arrogant. But I believe in facts and nuance and context, not cherry picking and twisting to support an emotive rhetoric.