Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:41 am
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Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:21 am
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:17 am
the mexican consulate complained and it went to the mexican government. that's why the bbc issued an apology.wolf89 wrote:Nonoam wrote:lol no.wolf89 wrote:Fair point..gnome wrote:Coogan's just another white man fighting the racism battle. Which isn't his battle, as he, like most white western people has never experienced racism properly. I would be able to tak his points had they been from a Mexican. Rather than a man in his castle pointing out how other people are doing wrong to other people. Quit whinging white man.
not a 'fair point' at all
thats stupid and inherently racist in itself.
'another white man fighting the racism battle' - LOL you think you're Malcolm X or something?!
what a joke
What I meant was that no-one has spoken out so much to my knowledge who is of Mexican descent. I don't know how offensive it would be. Being that I'm white. That's all I meant.
I still think they were being dicks and pretty racist. Which is why I went on to say that you should still be able to call someone out if they're being a dick. Which is what Coogan is doing
i'm increasingly not watching top gear bacause there are other car shows that feature cars, more than it being a cult of celebrity about three middle aged men, who live in middle england and moan about things they don't have any real experience of.
i enjoy car porn as much as the next overgrown child, i really do, but it's beginning to get really old - watching them doing the same jokes and the same schtick over and over again.
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:21 am
the bits i lived in were fine. it must be you, rather than huddersfield tbh. some wicked reggae nights, a half decent pirate radio station... i liked it there.gnome wrote:The multiculturalism of Huddersfield has taken the ability away for a friendly "hello" or a bit of banter. Or am I in the wrong thread?
but then belfast folk aren't exactly world renowned for their open acceptance of anything other than themselves i suppose. my step dad seemingly was an exception.
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:27 am
i protested with the mexicans at the Day Without a Mexican demonstrations when all the mexicans in austin didn't show up for work to show how important they are to the economy
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:58 am
Yeah I was messing about. I do enjoy a bit of the 1:22. A lot of nice people.koro inu wrote:the bits i lived in were fine. it must be you, rather than huddersfield tbh. some wicked reggae nights, a half decent pirate radio station... i liked it there.gnome wrote:The multiculturalism of Huddersfield has taken the ability away for a friendly "hello" or a bit of banter. Or am I in the wrong thread?
but then belfast folk aren't exactly world renowned for their open acceptance of anything other than themselves i suppose. my step dad seemingly was an exception.
Yeah the Belfast ones ran some Romanians out of the coutry due to excessive rascim...pretty fucked up.
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:08 am
Im a bit late to this thread, but i completely agree.wolf89 wrote:Thing is.
I actually really like Top Gear most of the time
Normally I think that Clarkson is just trying to play up to what people expect him to be like and it doesn't really bother me. It doesn't seen serious. He's an idiot but he clearly doesn't mean half the crap he says and is just doing it to be funny or wind people up.
In the whole Mexican thing though. They just come over as assholes. They're not being funny. They're just being racist. It's not clever or anything. I mean fair enough you don't expect Mexican cars to be any good, but that's no reason to just pointlessly blurt out offensive stereo types. Especially Hammond. He's being a dick and just trying to be like Clarkson.
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:03 pm
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Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:04 pm
Don't south park do this on a regs?
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:05 pm
do what?nicenice wrote:Don't south park do this on a regs?
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:22 pm
take the piss out of mexicans
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:28 pm
yeah but as coogan points out, when he does it as partridge, it's about the character being an idiot, and exposing the idiocy. like south park innit. it's satire, and you can do a lot with satire.
top gear isn't a satirical programme, it's a car show.
top gear isn't a satirical programme, it's a car show.
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:39 pm
Speaking of Mexican stereotypes.....is that what Southern Railways are getting at lately?
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:57 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b0 ... 07_02_2011
wiley explaining the concept of 'ethnic banter' from 35 mins lol
wiley explaining the concept of 'ethnic banter' from 35 mins lol
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:21 pm
Pretty sure they didn't mean it, pretty sure some of you or your friends have probably made comments in this direction for laughs before.
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:22 pm
The only thing wrong with their comments was that they weren't funny.
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:28 pm
lol yh this is thoughnicenice wrote:The only thing wrong with their comments was that they weren't funny.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts ... 102023504/
Meanwhile experts stressed that describing Mexicans as lazy was in itself lazy and that Hammond should have said a Mexican car would be full of cocaine and you would eventually find bits of it hanging from a bridge.
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:39 pm
yea if you or your friends are completely retarded and shit at jokesnicenice wrote:Pretty sure they didn't mean it, pretty sure some of you or your friends have probably made comments in this direction for laughs before.
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:24 pm
there's a lot wrong with what top gear do, mainly to do with the fact that its trash tv which is meant to be representative of the UK round the world. Top Gear is the most watched program we export, and its level of intellect is akin to Fox News. basically, would you rather have people think the typical brit is like Jeremy Clarkson or not?nicenice wrote:The only thing wrong with their comments was that they weren't funny.
personally i'd rather not be associated with him, despite the fact i know i he's playing up to his character.
Re: Steve Coogan on Top Gear's racial stereotyping
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:31 pm
execution is the solution