Clarkson

[TheCat]

So....up front....what Clarkson said about megham is horrendous....no question.

I do want to ask though...have similar things been said about right-wing white men in power and we just brush it off?....if they haven't, then okay, but my gut feel is that awful shit gets said about right wingers and we say that's acceptable...

But Meg is black and female....so having a go at her is racist and mysoginistic....not just a case of clarkson being an asshole....

[malumbu]

He loves publicity whether good and bad and has a high profile and therefore will get a response. I'm not interested in the whole royal circus and therefore haven't taken notice although I did see from shopping that the Clarkson backlash was front page in the Star (I was shopping and just looked, honnest). If it is hate crime then the authorities should get involved.

Personally a recent former PM said provocative things that were borderline racist and never got taken to task for this. Don't start me on Trump. Sadly we live in this new world where many across the world thrive on this sort of thing. Can't turn the clock back but feel the world is much more divided than say ten years ago.