Was Jim Davidson Being Racist Towards Sadiq Khan?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7143897/Comedian-Jim-Davidson-faces-racism-claims.html

Whilst one Left-Wing comedian can suggests the throwing of acid instead of milkshakes.

Woe betide a Right-Wing comedian if he dares to state that the present Mayor of London has 'f***** up' his home town.

Yes out comes their Race Card once again, where is the racism in that?

[anotheoldgit]

dannyk13

/// AOG, why don't you just gracefully accept Andy's apology. ///

Blimey give me time I was in the process of typing a former answer before I spotted Andy's apology.

Not as it has got anything to do with you, except for a chance for you to get in your usual enjoyment in stirring the brown stuff.

[Zacs-Master]

‘I have lived in era when our country was almost a totally White Christian country’

And therein lies the problem.

[Jordyboy9]

Please take this as a statement of fact and not a poor me,(as some might suggest)mr Hughes has stated and rightly so,that the ed is not on at the weekend,so maybe whoever removed my post last weekend might do the same to this.

[Zacs-Master]

Hey, Jordy.....why don’t you start a thread about your removed post?

[andy-hughes]

Zacs - // ‘I have lived in era when our country was almost a totally White Christian country’

And therein lies the problem. //

I think that is a little unfair.

We are all products of our upbringing, and the society in which we grow up.

It's true to say that the vast and rapid changes that have occurred in our society in the last thirty years have utterly outstripped the pace and scope of changes in the thirty years before that.

I think it reasonable therefore to allow that the wartime generation may have more difficulty in accepting some of those changes, which they see as not always for the better.

That is a situation they are in, rather than a fault of theirs I think.

Regulars who know AOG, as I do, can see that behind some of his views and opinions may be a person who finds the changes around him increasingly hard to assimilate, which may well simply be a result of having lived that long, and see and experiencing such changes.

Having lived and grown up in a latter part of those changes, I find myself better equipped to understand the pace of change, although I equally find some of the changes to be baffling and negative in equal measure.

Perhaps when I am another twenty-five years down the line, I too may be looking back whistfully at a time when life seemed easier to deal with - I'll let you know.

[andy-hughes]

Zacs - // Hey, Jordy.....why don’t you start a thread about your removed post? //

Come on now, mischief making does not make for good threads being left open.

[dannyk13]

//Not as it has got anything to do with you, except for a chance for you to get in your usual enjoyment in stirring the brown stuff.//
Typical antagonistic rep;y from you.If anyone on this site stirs it is you,as witnessed by the number of threads you derail.

[Zacs-Master]

It’s not at all unfair. I know many octogenarians who have adapted to out multi cultural is and manage to ‘get’ what racism is. Or at least if they don’t, they don’t use a pubic forum to repeatedly demonstrate their ignorance.

[Zacs-Master]

Multiculturalism

[Jordyboy9]

I did Zacs and it was REMOVED-=)

[Zacs-Master]

Noooooo! Really. Sheesh.

[andy-hughes]

Zacs - // It’s not at all unfair. I know many octogenarians who have adapted to out multi cultural is and manage to ‘get’ what racism is. Or at least if they don’t, they don’t use a pubic forum to repeatedly demonstrate their ignorance. //

Fair enough.

[andy-hughes]

Zacs … !

[Zacs-Master]

;-)

[Spicerack]

Just watched a video of Jim Davidson entertaining the troops.
It was racist, homophobic, sexist, and the troops loved it.

[andy-hughes]

Spicerack - // Just watched a video of Jim Davidson entertaining the troops.
It was racist, homophobic, sexist, and the troops loved it. //

A standard argument in defence of comedy such as that offered by Mr Davidson, is that there is a market for it, and he simply serves that market.

It's not a defence I find acceptable personally - there is a 'market' for bear-baiting and cock-fighting, it doesn't mean that society has not moved on sufficiently to acknowledge that catering to that market is not at all a desirable state of affairs.

[gness]

Do I think it was racist? No. Not that I'm defending Davidson. I can't stand the man but even worse than that he and my son have been drinking buddies and my son thinks he's an okay guy. And I thought I had brought him up well and to choose his friends with care.

AOG. You have a nerve to tell folk to stick to the topic or go to chatterbank.
You failed to do that very early in this thread at 13.59
Your reply to RR was ignorant, insulting and immature. Which is how you are coming across on so many threads of late.

Hope all goes as well as it can this weekend, RR.....x

[Ken4155]

Was that the 2014 live with the UK troops one, Spice. Just sat through 12 minutes of it and actually broke into a smile once (when he says, "Blame the yanks.") If it is the one, then the 'love' you say they showed him must come later because much of what i heard was polite laughter. Then again, having spent 7 years in the forces, i know that squaddies will laugh at almost anything and, back in the day, i would probably have tittered a few times, too.

[webbo3]

what was this thread about again?

[baza]

In the early 1970's I encountered a black policeman in Brixton, the first I had seen, he gave me directions the same as any other officer would. From the 1980's I worked in London with people of various colours , race or creeds. I do however miss the scanty clad adverts on the underground.