Jeremy Clarkson slams TV bosses..Funny read

That's right Garry, lefties and liberals are living in a fantasy land :rolleyes: You're obviously an intelligent bloke but every now and then you say something that is really f***ing stupid.

I actually agree that this quota stuff is rubbish (although how much is actually going on and how much is media created spin I'm not sure) but Clarkson going over the same old crap for 15-20 years means that his remarks have lost any bite which they may have had, now he just sounds like some bricklayer who reads The Sun and is ticked off at the world for no real reason.

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

I actually agree that this quota stuff is rubbish.

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Affirmate action was a good idea. Back in the bad old days people would often pass over minorities due to deeply-held prejudices, regardless of their ability to perform. Forcing employers to address this was undoubtedly a good thing in my opinion. As with anything though, it can occasionally be taken too far. It is possible that society has now progressed to an extent that it isn't really necessary anymore.

Regardless of what you think of Clarkson, he does raise a good point in his article. That you have three white, hetrosexual (yes, James May has a girlfriend :p ) males.

Whereas you'd more normally expect once they have someone like Clarkson, that it would follow that the other would be a woman and the third would be non-white.

Which is nonsense of course because it depends on ability to do the job so if three white males are the best, so be it, or if it happens to be three Australians... actually no.

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

That's right Garry, lefties and liberals are living in a fantasy land :rolleyes: You're obviously an intelligent bloke but every now and then you say something that is really f***ing stupid.

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From my personal experience, lefties and liberals really tend to have quite weird ways of looking at the world and are quite distant with reality. Like they are living in a bubble of their own where the demands of the real world become non-existant.

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I actually agree that this quota stuff is rubbish (although how much is actually going on and how much is media created spin I'm not sure) but Clarkson going over the same old crap for 15-20 years means that his remarks have lost any bite which they may have had, now he just sounds like some bricklayer who reads The Sun and is ticked off at the world for no real reason.

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Quotas in America are quite "popular"
They are an idiotic creation.
People should be judged on one thing only for any job or university access - their ability.
I will never hire a woman (or a man) or a black just because someone forces it on me with quotas. I would rather close down my company.
Only one thing matters - ability.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I think it's very sad that being 'politically incorrect', which is just a euphemism for 'xenophobic, sexist, homophobic and boorish', is now considered such a high form of humour.

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I think many of the people who complain about political correctness seem to confuse political correctness with health and safety legislation. But is it political correctness that means teachers have stopped calling the black kids in their school 'jungle monkeys' like they did 30 years ago, or is it that people are better educated about such issues today?

I can't help feel that many of the political correctness gone mad rants are completely made up. Schools have phased out blackboards and introduced dry-wipe boards, but I remember people saying 'schools aren't allowed to have blackboards now in case it offends black kids, it's political correctness gone mad.'

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Originally Posted by Mark

Regardless of what you think of Clarkson, he does raise a good point in his article. That you have three white, hetrosexual (yes, James May has a girlfriend :p ) males.

Whereas you'd more normally expect once they have someone like Clarkson, that it would follow that the other would be a woman and the third would be non-white.

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Ironically, it has never occured to me that Top Gear's line-up of three white, straight, male presenters is unusual, but it obviously has occured to Clarkson.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

But is it political correctness that means teachers have stopped calling the black kids in their school 'jungle monkeys' like they did 30 years ago, or is it that people are better educated about such issues today?

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I think people are better educated and more sensitive to this because of political correctness.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

So you are telling me that most comedians you like are complete idiots with no understanding of life, besides their crazy little world where they live in that has nothing to do with reality?

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No, they're not like you. They're actually quite intelligent, nuanced, amusing and sensible.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

'jungle monkeys'

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As far as I was aware the correct term is jungle bunnies. Actually I'm constantly amazed by quite how racist the blokes at my work can be, some of the names they come out with I thought had stopped being used in the '70s

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

I think many of the people who complain about political correctness seem to confuse political correctness with health and safety legislation. But is it political correctness that means teachers have stopped calling the black kids in their school 'jungle monkeys' like they did 30 years ago, or is it that people are better educated about such issues today?

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Armando Iannucci wrote a while ago that it's a good thing because it stops the word 'nigger' being used in railway station tannoy announcements. It has stamped out a lot of the casual racism that used to be heard, but not all. Sadly the sort of things that Clarkson says - but not on programmes where he's surrounded by people like Stephen Fry and Ian Hislop who are cleverer and wittier than he is, I always notice - have begun to make it acceptable to come out with such things again, on the grounds that it's 'politically incorrect'. No, it's just offensive.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

I can't help feel that many of the political correctness gone mad rants are completely made up.

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Yes, very few are true, and some that are get repeated by news outlets for no reason.