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Topic History of: Danny Baker sacked from 5Live Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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robbiex
Funded by tax payers, no incorrect, it is funded by bbc licence payers.
robbiex
You can be racist these days for not buying the latest stormzy album.
PaulB
I've never been a fan of Danny Baker, but I agree with this guy's point.
Green Man
BBC thinks everyone is racist.
Blue Boy
hedda wrote:
Of course Sugar should have been booted but that doesn't excuse Baker.
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Danny Baker was racist. Whether he meant to offend or just be funny is immaterial. He attacked 100s and 100s of people either deliberately or inadvertently. Nether is forgivable.
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Interesting how forgiving and understanding posters on this board are towards certain crimes and misunderstandings but not others
I have known Danny Baker for many years and he isn't a racist. He likes poking fun and has no time for the rich and privelged who only have family money as a defining characteristic. His explanation (which i believe) is that he wanted to make a joke about the royal baby and looked in his library of many funny images to use for a twitter post. He never took time to think of how inappropriate the use of the chimp was given Megan's heritege. He knew about Megan being mixed race but he is a busy man and at that moment he didn't stop and make the connection.
I can see how that happened. What I can't see is how that makes him racist or how a mistake like that isn't forgiveable