[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Maru

He interviews terribly and sounds like a Z-tier politician.

He claims this line got him kicked: "Some of the finest minds in human history, such as Cicero, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Henry Ford, Rodale, some of the most intellectual men ever— each held anti-Semitic views in their writing"

…honestly, it’s like he reels he doesn’t give any thought to anything but just reels off words from a sheet…it’s the feeling I got when he was in the house, that there seems no depth of thought/opinion, it’s all just surface and say what you see that day in whatever site etc…

[HBIC]

Some of you in this thread are so desperate to defend him, it’s sad.

[MTVN]

He comes across awfully in this interview tbh, incredibly dense and bigoted

Poundshop Lawrence Fox and even that might be doing him more credit than he deserves

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…yeah for sure, I think it does tbh…’he’s not saying as a fact’ but he’s asking and pondering that if great minds in history displayed anti semitic tropes then do we look at a ‘no smoke without fire’ view…?…

It depends on how the comment came in during the conversation and what point he was trying to make if it would fit within that context. I think it's more likely he just brought it up to be provocative. I don't personally think people should be kicked for simple speech. The message it sends to me is that we don't go to BB expecting anything more than kiddy pool depth discourse. This means it will largely favor those who are accustomed to being able to shout utter nonsense as long as it stays "culturally positive". Questioning them directly means that person can easily be pushed towards a rule break. It's very easy to do that, imo

Arguably he was baited but that's comedy as he seems to have intended to put his own head on the pike so to speak so he could be marched around the media circuit after he was inevitably ejected/evicted. So I don't see him as a victim at all and don't think he was silenced for that same reason.

There's many people on Youtube in particular that have long form discussions about the same sensitive discourse that supposedly got him kicked, but in a dignified way, and they can comfortably achieve an audience.

The problem for George here is 1) He's not that great of an orator; His argumentation is honing in on flash points rather than an exchange of ideas/long form discourse ... it's also arguable whether he can handle disagreement.

2) He's on a reality show designed around emphasizing personal drama over substance. So he can pretend all day long he is there to be some high mind, but that's not what the game or the show prioritizes. The same is true for the others as well, they're not there for their supposed high mind lol. ITV BB is built around pandering. HMs are there to say their "piece" which is usually just pandering to popular cultural themes.

That's probably why people like Elsa don't get on better than they should.. All her other faults aside, I think she's likely really intelligent, but she does seem higher in awareness and isn't as accustomed to having her opinions validated like some of the others are.

3) Given 1+2, the producers had every reason to think he was going to just keep starting fires for them to put out and so they had every reason to chuck him if they felt it were heading towards a legal liability if they didn't.

In this interview he is even admitting "I'm not even anti-Semitic!"... and then he also said (paraphrase) "I don't even care about arguing over conspiracy theories because we aren't meant to know the truth anyway, so why bother"... and yet he brings this up, so clearly to try to get more attention... probably from Production.

24/7 live feed sure would've been nice!

[Maru]

Originally Posted by HBIC

Some of you in this thread are so desperate to defend him, it’s sad.

lol. Yeah, he wanted to be booted I think.

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…honestly, it’s like he reels he doesn’t give any thought to anything but just reels off words from a sheet…it’s the feeling I got when he was in the house, that there seems no depth of thought/opinion, it’s all just surface and say what you see that day in whatever site etc…

Yeah I just watched the full interview, he does himself no favours. Looks like ITV edited out alot aswell.

He says " Hitler was misguided" , that's like saying 'Ted Bundy was just some poor minded helpless dude', instead of the serial killer he actually was !.

And he actually thinks being compared to Andrew Tate is a compliment .

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by MTVN

He comes across awfully in this interview tbh, incredibly dense and bigoted

Poundshop Lawrence Fox and even that might be doing him more credit than he deserves

…absolutely…but I have to say that’s how he was beginning to sound in the house as well….very flat and as if he was reading words from a sheet or just throwing words out there that he he actually had no depth of an opinion, just words/phrases that he had adopted as a persona…/that’s how he was feeling to me and it was for me an absolutely correct decision to eject him…

[Vicky.]

He was my fave but comes across really unlikeable here

[Crimson Dynamo]

I still can't believe anyone in that house knows what anti semitism is
False flag

[Maru]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

Yeah I just watched the full interview, he does himself no favours. Looks like ITV edited out alot aswell.

He says " Hitler was misguided" , that's like saying 'Ted Bundy was just some poor minded helpless dude', instead of the serial killer he actually was !.

And he actually thinks being compared to Andrew Tate is a compliment .

He wants fame and he plugged his new YT at the end, so...

[DanielM787]

The producers are to blame, they knew what he was like and still decided to put him on the show, despite his views just to lead him getting ejected.. they need to hire back the casting team from CH4 and replace it with the ones they have now

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by DanielM787

The producers are to blame, they knew what he was like and still decided to put him on the show, despite his views just to lead him getting ejected.. they need to hire back the casting team from CH4 and replace it with the ones they have now

This aswell tbh ,which is what I've been saying. Might aswell have never put him in the BB house to begin with.

[Mystic Mock]

I still personally wouldn't have removed him for saying that.

But having said that, I strongly disagree with his opinion.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I'm not actually watching the interview but wonder what he means by being rage baited by the Wolfpack

It sounds a bit dodge to me, playing into classic conspiracies and saying that anti-Semitism could be justified

The Wolf Pack can control what comes out of another Housemate's mouth.

Didn't you know?