Prince Harry's new squeeze...

[Le Controleur Horizontal]

Bye Bye Danny

[p1stonhead]

CAPP0 said:

hyphen said:

Wtf.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7009283/B...

WTAF x 1m?

I'm normally one to shout down anyone who desperately tries to find a racist angle to an innocent word or action, but isn't that right up there with monkey chants at football matches?

Just read any of the comments on articles about them and you will see the staggering amount of racism directed towards her.

[LDN]

That’s his career done then.

Thick as st.

[Munter]

I had to be prompted to remember Meghan is black. Then I got the issue with the photo.

I thought the issue was animal cruelty to start with (e.g. the old PG tips adverts), and was so confused about the fuss.

[Petrus1983]

Munter said:

I had to be prompted to remember Meghan is black. Then I got the issue with the photo.

I thought the issue was animal cruelty to start with (e.g. the old PG tips adverts), and was so confused about the fuss.

I kinda get that - loads of people aren’t interested in them - but Danny Baker is fully aware of her heritage and is fully aware of the connotations of his image.

[So]

LDN said:

That’s his career done then.

His absence will send shockwaves through the world of broadcasting for years to come.

[LDN]

So said:

LDN said:

That’s his career done then.

His absence will send shockwaves through the world of broadcasting for years to come.

[HTP99]

LDN said:

That’s his career done then.

Thick as st.

I'm not one for being "outraged" at nothing and many of these so called "racist" tweets, adverts etc are not racist at all, however what Danny Baker has done is clearly racist, he's an idiot and rightly needs to be called out on it, how can anyone think that, that being tweeted is even remotely acceptable!!

[LDN]

HTP99 said:

LDN said:

That’s his career done then.

Thick as st.

I'm not one for being "outraged" at nothing and many of these so called "racist" tweets, adverts etc are not racist at all, however what Danny Baker has done is clearly racist, he's an idiot and rightly needs to be called out on it, how can anyone think that, that being tweeted is even remotely acceptable!!

Even if his intention was not racist... it shows a massive lack of common sense and judgement; lack of sensitivity. He’s obviously as thick as st. It was only ever going to be interpreted one way and the fact that he either didn’t care or didn’t get that; means he’s most likely done.

[boyse7en]

MrBrianNorris said:

Same for Harrison. Okay, I understand that the kid is 'Harry's son', but it's a name that traditionally has been a surname. The fact that someone - probably an American - decided to randomly use it as a Christian name doesn't make it especially classy.

Does that extend to the "Mountbatten" part of his name too? Isn't that a surname being used as a Christian middle name?

[Petrus1983]

He’s just been fired.

[p1stonhead]

Petrus1983 said:

He’s just been fired.

Good fking riddance to the racist .

They had zero choice.

[Countdown]

Re: Danny Baker - massively stupid mistake on his part but he doesn't have a racist bone in his body.

[Petrus1983]

p1stonhead said:

Good fking riddance to the racist .

They had zero choice.

I agree with the zero choice. Keeping him would be too damaging to the BBC/royal relationship to ever have allowed him to stay.

[LDN]

BBC had no choice. How can someone be so stupid... massive lack of judgement.

Next.

[p1stonhead]

Countdown said:

Re: Danny Baker - massively stupid mistake on his part but he doesn't have a racist bone in his body.

Well we all have evidence to the contrary of this.

[popeyewhite]

p1stonhead said:

Well we all have evidence to the contrary of this.

Where?

[MrBrianNorris]

boyse7en said:

MrBrianNorris said:

Same for Harrison. Okay, I understand that the kid is 'Harry's son', but it's a name that traditionally has been a surname. The fact that someone - probably an American - decided to randomly use it as a Christian name doesn't make it especially classy.

Does that extend to the "Mountbatten" part of his name too? Isn't that a surname being used as a Christian middle name?

It's hyphenated and the baby is being referred to as Mountbatten-Windsor, so it must be a double-barrelled surname.

[Petrus1983]

Even his opportunity to apologise was just a joke -

[Rick_1138]

My wife showed me the Danny baker tweet, and i properly WTF'd!

I wouldn't have classed him as racist, or so fking stupid as to put that picture up and not click.

I said to her, even if he didn't think it as racist, more like the royals bringing out the performing monkey of a new baby as they always do, but as my Mrs said, Danny is a big football fan, he would know all about the racist connotations of the term Monkey etc, and the fact that Megan is Mixed race.

Lost a lot of respect for the guy, i thought he was a bit more intelligent than that, but it shows again and again, taking a few seconds to put a picture up online, without thinking it through for a second longer leads to the end result he got, Fired from his job for being a complete idiot and committing Twitter suicide.

The mind boggles.