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BBC Radio presenter sacked over 'racist' call to mini cab office
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Apologies for the source of the story, but this is as bizarre as is funny (though I do feel sorry for the little girl, for obvious reasons).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084702/BBC-Radio-host-sacked-taxi-firm-requesting-non-Asian-driver.html
I personally think the BBC did the right thing in sacking her. And frankly I struggle to see how a 12 year old child- or of any age- could possibly be "freaked out" by a man wearing a turban.
Fuck knows the things she will have heard at home about those pesky darkies then... :rolleyes:
A BBC Radio presenter has been sacked following a 'racist' call to a taxi firm, in which she requested a 'non-Asian' driver.
Sam Mason told the operator that 'a guy with a turban would freak her daughter out' insisting they send an English driver instead.
The ex-glamour girl, 40, called the firm to order a taxi for her 14-year-old daughter off-air, while presenting her BBC Bristol radio show.
After the operator branded her request 'racist', Mason insisted, claiming it wasn't the first time she had made the request.
She said: 'A guy with a turban is going to freak her out. She's not used to Asians.'
When the operator said it would not be possible to carry out her wishes, she said: 'You've managed it before.'
Mason, who has previously battled alcohol addiction, claimed she wasn't racist but insisted she was looking out for her daughter's interest.
Mason said: 'If it were me I wouldn't care if it had two heads, but it's my little girl we are talking about.'
After the operator refused to book a car, Mason complained before hanging up.
The operator said: 'We would class that as being racist. We can't just penalise the Asian drivers and just send an English one.'
She later called back before a manager accepted the booking.
Mason said: 'I work at the BBC. I'm far from racist and that uneducated woman has no right to call me one.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084702/BBC-Radio-host-sacked-taxi-firm-requesting-non-Asian-driver.html
I personally think the BBC did the right thing in sacking her. And frankly I struggle to see how a 12 year old child- or of any age- could possibly be "freaked out" by a man wearing a turban.
Fuck knows the things she will have heard at home about those pesky darkies then... :rolleyes:
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Now we have this. A rather ludicrous woman who implies she is educated because "I work at the BBC" makes an equally stupid and crass phone call. Within hours of making this call, which was not broadcast to anyone, she was unceremoniously fired. Perhaps she should have just called up an elderly man and said she'd slept with his grandson instead?
Pathetic.
The Beeb had to do something - by the sounds of her conversation she was using her position at the BBC to browbeat someone into sending her someone white - I suspect that was the nail in her coffin (though one suspects that if she'd been a national name instead of a minor presenter on a local station the BBC would have treated her less harshly)
Er? Aladdin wasn't driving the taxi - he just posted the story...
I meant a 3 or 4 year old having just watched aladdin on dvd, and not porn, the disney film, may well associate the taxi driver as being out of the movie, not scary.
When my aunt's dad was in hospital, she took my cousin who was 3 at the time to see him. In the next bed a Sikh man was asleep with his turban on, my cousin's face lit up and he said, "Grandad, you never told me Aladdin would be here!"
PMSL
An amusing coincidence.
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Bringing the company/business into disrepute.
Are you serious? The South Park writers put those words in the mouths of ignorant eight year olds, characters that don't understand what the word means. It's supposed to be jarring and set up either ignorant or unlikable characters.
Chris Moyles is just a repugnant human being.
I will.
He's a grade A cunt.
If her 14 year old is freaked out by turban wearing Asians then the solution is for her 14 year old to get out more. Or maybe Sam Mason should work on her parenting and upbringing skills instead of sheltering her daughter from certain races.
I'm not sure whether the BBC should've sacked her though. She didn't make those comments on air. If she did then it would've been a different story. An admonishment would've been sufficient.
The taxi company handled the situation well though. My message to them is...
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Theres a good chance she might have been sacked even if it hadnt been widely published.
Are you serious? If you had ever seen South Park, you would know that the children by and large are not meant to be ‘ignorant’ but rather the premise is that the kids provide the voice of reason in most episodes, reaching common sense that bypasses the jaded adults. They use words like 'gay' and 'retard' and suchlike (as do Trey Parker and Matt Stone in interviews), and are not set up as unlikeable characters because of it. It is also perfectly clear that the kids know exactly what the words mean, as the show has often tackled subjects such as homosexuality and the mentally handicapped. In short, you're wrong, the comparison was fine.
And I agree that this sacking shows hypocrisy on the BBC's part; but it's understandable, anybody would be more willing to let Miss Nobody go than their flagship wannabe-Parkinson.
Well come and get a job where i work and get sacked for being racist then, its happened!
Chris Moyles is not.
Of course, it's alright to be up in arms about whatever is fashionably PC at the moment.
I don't care much about what radio presenters say and do tbh, but punishing one and leaving the other (because omfg it's so clever to say things are gay!) sends out messages.
Aaah
Like how a radio presenter can use homophobic language on air, but somebody gets the sack for racism off air.
That is double standards.
It looks like people are favouring one group over the other and gives the impression it's cool to use some language that offends some groups, but not the other.