Are you outraged by this?

Just trying to lighten things a bit Marshy and stop all you nutters fighting.

I will remove it.

I thought it was funny :hehe:

Thank you, Niamh. It is funny because it's true.

Anyhoo, taken it down now, don't want Marshy getting his yfronts in a knot.

No. And whether I was outraged or not doesn't deflect from the fact that the actual purpose of this joke was to poke fun at Africans.

If it's not to poke fun at them, there is no joke there. Do you see?

No knots here. Just thought it was a poor attempt at finding a white man joke. :smug:

I wasn't trying to find a white man joke I looked for a football joke. I was trying to deflect from the uproar caused by such a mild joke. I see no intent in it, and yet, despite the crap going on in the world, people are going to waste their energy reacting to it.

Tbf, I don't think many people see racist intention in it. I actually like Lord Sugar.

He was just dumb to think a racist joke wouldn't be taken the way it has been.

and what is wrong with poking fun at Africans?

Nothing. There's nothing wrong with poking fun at anyone.

Making their race the butt of the joke, however, is.

Alf you're so exasperating :nono:
Can't you be consistent and talk sense THROUGHOUT a thread? :laugh:
You started well and then you went and dragged Roseanne into this.
Sugar's tweet was nowhere near as offensive as Roseanne's
Sugar tried to be funny and misjudged, Roseanne oth is racist

Tbf, Roseanne always tries to be funny with her racist comments.

But you see that this happens both ways right? You do know I could find some videos of Black comedians making jokes about White people, for just being White, don't you? And we'd all more than likely laugh at them too.

it's ok to joke at anyone, as long as you keep it funny and it's not racist


but Lord Sugar apologized for this now, so hopefully his humour can improve from now on

calling sb a monkey? not funny

I don't recall saying it was. However, Roseanne thinks it is, ergo she says it for a laugh. The point being made.

You don't think she simply makes the comparison? She makes the comparison as her idea of a laugh and a joke to mock someone she doesn't like.

Knock yourself out, doesn't make your belief these kind of jokes aren't racist any less wrong.

Got in there before me Livia,:hehe: I totally agree,people just seem to want to find something to whinge at today,I thought it funny too:laugh:

Yes, because you really have to search hard to see racism in a racist joke.

but why is it a racist joke?
he could have said that about any team from a country known for enterprising migrants
why not Polish team full of plumbers and builders? Idgi

but why is it a racist joke?
he could have said that about any team from a country known for enterprising migrants
why not Polish team full of plumbers and builders? Idgi

Because the punchline is based on being derogatory about Africans... based on them being African.

it's about them doing two jobs, selling sunglasses in Spain and playing football for Senegal
enterprising migrants comes to mind, not skin colour
no, I don't get it, sorry sis :shrug:
nvm

So what do you think should happen now?

Should the Police get involved?
Should the BBC fire him?
Should he be branded a racist for the rest of his days?
Should he give money to a charity?
Or now that he's apologised, shall we just move on?
Or something else?

You don't see where race comes into it?

So, he'd have used this joke alongside an image of ANY football team then, right?