Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson accused of saying the n-word; people are freaking out.

[Aikouka]

He posted a video response to this yesterday on Twitter, and it was pretty safe to assume that he wasn't pleased at the allegations. Apparently, when he saw the take prior to the show airing, he sent a note to the editing team to use a different take because he noticed that the mumble could be interpreted that way.

 

[Markbnj]

No, just since 2008. I mean with all the beer summits, could have been my son quotes, and other nonsense from the whitehouse.... the media is on edge.

That Sterling guy is a douche. You have to be a douche to make $2 billion. But you can't make him sell a business because of something he said in private.

Now someone thinks they hear a racist word... and people go batshit crazy.

Bill Gates has made 25 x that amount, but somehow I can't imagine him saying the things Sterling did. There are dozens of men and women much richer than Donald Sterling who I'm fairly confident would never think or say those things, because they don't have those feelings.

Putting the Sterling situation in the same category as Clarkson maybe mumbling a single offensive word is silly, especially when that word is really only considered offensive these days if there is offensive intent behind it. Some subcultures have made it nearly a term of endearment.

 

[darkewaffle]

Some subcultures have made it nearly a term of endearment.

Why they gotta be a "sub" culture?

 

[Atomic Playboy]

He intentionally mumbled over the word, but apparently not satisfactorily enough, so he re-shot it with an even MUMBLIER version, therefore RACISM.

 

[Markbnj]

Why they gotta be a "sub" culture?

Because I am obviously stuck in an antiquated and euro-centric view of cultural hierarchy.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Doesn't matter, he might have said it, can't risk that he didn't say it, must do something, must punish him, fine him $2.5 million and take his show away, the precedent has been set folks, get use to it..

 

[halik]

Ha is that most pressing issue the brits have to deal with at the moment?

 

[SSSnail]

I don't have a big enough facepalm.gif for this.

 

[ultimatebob]

I wonder if he'll lose his job over this.

It seems that it's OK to destroy people's careers and businesses nowadays in the US if they have an opinion outside of the mainstream politically correct groupthink. I can't imagine the UK being any different.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

It is sad that he apologized, for absolutely nothing.

 

[slugg]

It is sad that he apologized, for absolutely nothing.

This.

What the fuck has the world come to? You know what, a black friend of mine had a really cool back-and-fourth on Facebook today over an entirely different racial matter. I'm anonymizing the names:

Black Guy: Joke of the day - "Why don't black people go on cruises?"
White guy: I don't think I'm allowed to laugh at this one...
Black Guy: When we can laugh together, we are truly equal.

Can the world just calm the fuck down and lighten up? Fuck! I love that word, by the way. The F-word, not the N-word. I don't have a problem with the N-word, since most real people (i.e. the non-press) don't care either, unless you're obviously using it in a negative way.

Top Gear has made intentional, funny jabs at Irish people, Americans, Germans, Italians, Australians, Arabs, Gays, Chinese... you name it! And we all love it! But when Jeremy intentionally *avoided* saying "******" in a completely unlrelated context (i.e. he was randomly choosing between two cars in an entertaining matter), to which that version never even aired on television, he's backed into a corner.

Fuck this, I quit.

/wrists

 

[shortylickens]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx_Jo69yR4c

 

[waggy]

ahh the never aired on television eh? so that is what makes it ok?

 

[phucheneh]

ahh the never aired on television eh? so that is what makes it ok?

No, the fact that it's a word and the only people who give a fuck are complete idiots is what makes it okay.

Better than okay. Encouraged.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Doesn't matter, he might have said it, can't risk that he didn't say it, must do something, must punish him, fine him $2.5 million and take his show away, the precedent has been set folks, get use to it..

His punishment will be that he is only allowed to review american cars

 

[Phoenix86]

ahh the never aired on television eh? so that is what makes it ok?

Yes, because what didn't air isn't racist. He's intentionally mumbling the words to AVOID being called racist.

 

[AdamantC]

The Daily Mirror is one of the rags that Piers "Something of a wise and beautiful woman" Morgan used to write for. So yeah, I'm calling horseshit.

 

[Fritzo]

He posted a video response to this yesterday on Twitter, and it was pretty safe to assume that he wasn't pleased at the allegations. Apparently, when he saw the take prior to the show airing, he sent a note to the editing team to use a different take because he noticed that the mumble could be interpreted that way.

I'd be pissed too. Did you read the Mirror story? It reminds me of something TMZ would write.

 

[Mark R]

he prob was saying "tiger" which is how that normally goes

Almost certainly not.

I've never heard the word Tiger in that rhyme in the UK, nor have any of my family or friends. The traditional word is always the n one.

 

[Aikouka]

I'd be pissed too. Did you read the Mirror story? It reminds me of something TMZ would write.

No, I haven't read it, but I'm not blaming him for being unhappy about it either. I was simply stating that he had posted a video response on his Twitter.

His punishment will be that he is only allowed to review american cars

No... he will be forced to sell his AMG and drive a Dacia Sandero for a year!

...or maybe even the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust?

 

[darkewaffle]

Almost certainly not.

I've never heard the word Tiger in that rhyme in the UK, nor have any of my family or friends. The traditional word is always the n one.

Tiger or monkey are the two traditional verses in the US to my memory.

 

[waggy]

Yes, because what didn't air isn't racist. He's intentionally mumbling the words to AVOID being called racist.

so? he still said it. he even admits to saying it. so the fact IT was not sopposed to be public makes it ok?

Clarkson said that in filming the section a couple of years ago, he was very keen to avoid using the offensive term in a version of the nursery rhyme and mumbled it on two takes before replacing it with the word "teacher" on a third.
"When I viewed this footage several weeks later, I realized that in one of the versions, if I listened very carefully with the sound turned right up, that I had actually used the word I was trying to obscure," he said.
"I was mortified by this, horrified. It's a word I loathe, and I did everything in my power to make sure that that version did not appear in the program."

cnn

Tiger or monkey are the two traditional verses in the US to my memory.

I remember it being "n***er" when i was a kid back in the 70's. it wasn't just one area of the nation either. i remember hearing it in OR, Co and IL.

When i had kids books and such said either tiger or monkey.

 

[sandorski]

When I was a kid(back in the '70's), we used to use that rhyme regularly. We even used the actual N-word. Most of us had no clue what it meant, it was just part of the rhyme.

He clearly didn't use the word in this case.

 

[SheHateMe]

I watched this video 3 times and I didn't make out anything in particular other than him annoying repeating "Eenie Meenie Minnie Mo" over and over.

What was I supposed to hear him saying?

 

[SaurusX]

When I was a kid(back in the '70's), we used to use that rhyme regularly. We even used the actual N-word. Most of us had no clue what it meant, it was just part of the rhyme.

What did you used to call Brazil nuts?