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Originally posted by Red Moon
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New row a Channel 4 godsend By BIG BROTHER 6'S
DEREK LAUD
CLEARLY Channel 4 felt they had no alternative but to remove Emily from the Big Brother house.
After the Shilpa Shetty race row, they could not have been seen to be covering up racist behaviour.
But Emily is a Godsend to the channel and the show’s makers Endemol because, unlike the fiasco of Celebrity Big Brother, this time they have reacted quickly and effectively.
Jade Goody was made a hate figure over her part in the race row.
Yet nothing she said to Shilpa was overtly racist. Compare this to Emily’s use of the word ‘n****r’ — which risks offending many good British men and women. Perhaps Emily meant it in a friendly, funny way.
Big Brother - Earlier storm ... Shilpa
But even if she didn’t say it with malice, it is a word that is intended to cause controversy, at the very least, and deep offence at worst.
Emily’s problem was she never allowed her brain to engage her mouth.
It is right that Big Brother should step in and stop racism. All extreme behaviour — whether bullying, racism, or sexism — must be dealt with in the same way.
But black or white, we must stop feeling we are entitled to call people ‘racists’ when no overt racism is involved.
Assassinating a person’s whole character because of one slip-up is unfair.
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Source: The Sun
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man I always liked Derek.....and that just proves his head is firmly in the right place.
what is Derek doing now?
I always wanted Derek and Science to do a song together
dOc