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Originally Posted by Damien
Of course they are offensive and ridiculously absurd comments to make.
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and why is that, please tell me what is so "offensive" about those comments.
they are the truth.
I live in a country village, and there is not one other black or brown face other than.....the stereotypical corner shop owner, who is Indian - I think.
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I think it's misleading to make this an issue of his program not having ethnically diverse characters, I don't think anyone has complained at their absence, but it's a curious policy to dismiss the suggestion altogether in the way he did. He suggested that the audience would have a problem with it: "I'm trying to make something that appeals to a certain audience, which seems to succeed. And I don't want to change it.".
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You can draw what conclusions you wish, I can see the road you wish to go down.
On the other he might just have been referring to an audience that like the biscuit tin version of the sleepy quint essential english village life.
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The worst passage was were he inferred that the program was the last bastion of Englishness as a reason for not adding multi-ethnic characters. This clings in an old-fashioned and frankly racist view that being English means being white.
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No it's not, again draw whatever twisted, chip on the shoulder, view you want.
Last time I drove through the villages of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire I didn't see to many mosques.
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Originally Posted by Damien
No one is calling the show racist. The reaction has been to his comments where he referred to it as the 'last bastion of Englishness' and that the show wouldn't work with a black character.
It's hard to see why it wouldn't work nor why it would prevent it's 'Englishness'. I am guessing that he thinks his audience would not accept it given his comments about a 'certain audience'.
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If you want to find "racism", look hard enough and I'm sue you'll find it every where and every time you try.
Knock yourself out.