[Urban Cragou]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Even if I was, Sarah's allowed to tell a joke.

Are we seriously so lost as a society that people are seriously going to defend BB for warning a Housemate over a controversial joke?

Years ago everyone would've rightly condemned BB for being so stupid.

I’m really not gonna agree with you on this one, Mock. Racism’s no joke and it never has been. She didn’t mean it like that, okay, but if a misunderstanding of that implied kind happens, I’d see it as common decency as much as it is their duty of care to point out to Sarah why the joke didn’t land in the way she was hoping it would. It’s really not about being a snowflake or too quick to take offence. When you’ve never been the target of marginalisation and discrimination it’s easy to not understand why some people might interpret certain things you say and do in a negative light but really B.B. had as much right to have a quiet word with Sarah as a black woman has to tell people not to touch her hair if she’s not cool with it, or just assuming by-default that it’s okay to touch it. On the other side you might understand completely but there is a way to respectfully hold space for your words and actions and just try and see it from the other side’s perspective. It would be a different story if she was put up for eviction just for that but having a word with her definitely wasn’t inappropriate.