[DanaC]

What's ridiculous is people getting into an almighty strop because someone was pulled up for a mildly racist joke on tv.

It amazes me that so many people think that minority ethnic groups should just get on with it and stop taking it so seriously that their parents, grandparents and great grand parents were treated like second class citizens and that they themselves have reduced employment opportunities and a greater likelihood of being stopped and searched etc etc etc, when someone makes a joke at their expense. Suck it up, have a sense of humour. But my God, step on the right of that person to make a racist joke without comment or censure of any kind and they start wailing about reverse racism and PC gone mad.

Get a grip. he made a comment on tv, it was mildly racist and potentially offensive to some and he was given a warning for it. Nobody is advocating taking him out back and shooting him for it. And very few people in this forum are taking it as an indication he's anything more than a little thoughtless and insensitive.