Top Gear 'slope' comment broke broadcasting rules, says Ofcom
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Why the fuck they bring this back up again, suddenly out of nowhere again, instead of leaving this shit behind they just attach themselves to it.
Two vievers, are you serious? There should be like a threshold of offended people or something because no matter what you do there is literally always at least one person, somewhere, who gets offended by a something, whatever it may be.
[QUOTE=nikomo;45523207]The bridge was sloped.
It had as slope on it.
You'd think the country that invented the language, would understand that language.[/QUOTE]
He admitted he was talking about the man on the bridge and not the bridge itself.
i should just write a complaint to ofcom about every program, get all the tv networks shut down, then start my own
Is anyone really surprised? I mean come on, they made fun of Hammond for nearly dying right there on their own TV show. Grow a pair.
[QUOTE=RustledJimmys;45523582]Is anyone really surprised? I mean come on, they made fun of Hammond for nearly dying right there on their own TV show. Grow a pair.[/QUOTE]
Problem is that it's funded by the tax payer, so they're not really allowed to say anything that could be construed as offensive.
Not that I agree with Ofcom's decision though. Top Gear would be greatly improved if it migrated channel and avoided the BBC censorship.
[QUOTE=RustledJimmys;45522888]Wow, two viewers.[/QUOTE]
Must be nice being a country with so few people in it than 2 complaints about a nationally televised episode is worth investigating for months
I thought us Americans were overly soft. God damn
And the part where Clarkson said nigger, give me a break. It was an un-aired, unintelligible, out take from years ago. It was leaked and got attention because Clarkson was in the news about the slope comment and someone thought hey, we're the media, when something's on fire we should throw fuel on it, so let's light this candle
Clarkson is paid too much to not be punished by this and when he fucks up again and the Stig replaces him the ratings'll spike through the roof since people'll be able to watch it without having to mute the tv whenever he opens his trap.
Comedians aren't allowed to be comedians nowadays.
[QUOTE=paul simon;45523650]Comedians aren't allowed to be comedians nowadays.[/QUOTE]
Muh feels hurt.
I literally only know about the term 'slope' as an offensive word referring to an Asian person because of Apocalypse Now, so that should say something.
I didn't even know 'Oriental' was offensive to American-Asians until like, last year.
I bet Fifth Gear has something to do with this!
[QUOTE=RidingKeys;45523714]I bet Fifth Gear has something to do with this![/QUOTE]
They're just mad cars are moving onto six and seven speeds, or horrid CVTs.
Imo the slope comment was a pretty funny double entendre.
[QUOTE=Kondor;45523232]slope is a very, very outdated racial slur i'm surprised people are actually offended by it and don't just find it endearing[/QUOTE]
Clarkson was at least 70 or 80 years old when the slur was popular so
[QUOTE=TheTalon;45523611]Must be nice being a country with so few people in it than 2 complaints about a nationally televised episode is worth investigating for months[/QUOTE]
There are 53,500,000 people in England roughly. 53,000,000 - 2 is 52,999,998. 52,999,998 that didn't complain. 'So few people'
fun fact: the slope comment was edited out of the american version of the episode
only clarkson would get attacked over a racial slur that only people over 65 would understand
[QUOTE=RustledJimmys;45522888]Wow, two viewers.[/QUOTE]
Those are probably the same two viewers that always send complaints no matter what they do.
[QUOTE=Sableye;45524761]only clarkson would get attacked over a racial slur that only people over 65 would understand[/QUOTE]
or anyone who has watched a vietnam war film
[QUOTE=Kondor;45523232]slope is a very, very outdated racial slur i'm surprised people are actually offended by it and don't just find it endearing[/QUOTE]
I don't understand that mentality at all.
By that logic, we should all be unoffended by the word 'nigger' and just feel endeared by it
[QUOTE=Noss;45523366]i should just write a complaint to ofcom about every program, get all the tv networks shut down, then start my own[/QUOTE]
Start with EastEnders please.
This is pretty rediculous
I should thank the 2 viewers that pointed out the racist conotation of "slope", because I now know slope can be a racist remark.
Thanks a whole fucking lot. Nobody would have cared if you didn't say something about, and there was an actual slope in the bridge to boot...
[QUOTE=Maloof?;45526433]I don't understand that mentality at all.
By that logic, we should all be unoffended by the word 'nigger' and just feel endeared by it[/QUOTE]
well language changes. a meaning doesn't stay that meaning forever.
It's ridiculous to assume that that won't happen as it's already what HAS happened to our language to date. Idiot, as a word, refers literally to a retarded person. Is idiot an okay word to use when referring to a jackass you met? Words, and language, are transative. Acting like they stay the same for all eternity because your very short life hasn't given you the ability to see long term transitions is ignorant and uninformed.
Nigger might not change, it is a very loaded word culturally and it may take longer than normal for that word to change. But to say that it cannot change, ever, that no one can use a word in any connotation you don't agree with is a little bit silly.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;45527099]well language changes. a meaning doesn't stay that meaning forever.
It's ridiculous to assume that that won't happen as it's already what HAS happened to our language to date. Idiot, as a word, refers literally to a retarded person. Is idiot an okay word to use when referring to a jackass you met? Words, and language, are transative. Acting like they stay the same for all eternity because your very short life hasn't given you the ability to see long term transitions is ignorant and uninformed.
Nigger might not change, it is a very loaded word culturally and it may take longer than normal for that word to change. But to say that it cannot change, ever, that no one can use a word in any connotation you don't agree with is a little bit silly.[/QUOTE]
but calling asian people slopes never changed from a racial slurr
it just isn't as common any more after america tried its hardest to forget vietnam, but it still means exactly the same thing.
[QUOTE=Gentry;45527135]but calling asian people slopes never changed from a racial slurr
it just isn't as common any more after america tried its hardest to forget vietnam, but it still means exactly the same thing.[/QUOTE]
I feel like you're using your understanding of regional language and applying it to everywhere in the world like they all know what you know
Before this incident, I had literally never heard slope used as a derogatory term about asians. So, I clearly don't share your personal dictionary. So, if even one person can apparently not be apart of your colloquialisms, then, just maybe more people are also not part of your colloquialisms and you're wrong in supposing your terminology is THE terminology and not just A terminology.
So, you're saying a word can't change or grow, or specifically that this one didn't/can't? And the use of it in a double entente(Which is what the joke was it turns out, how offensive can you get?!) is automatically the use of it in a racist sense? Perhaps it's using a colloquialism that you are aware of and using it in a humorous way? Is it by default racist to acknowledge the existence of certain words? Is offensive humour always meant to be a representation of a terrible thought and mean it literally or is a joke an attempt at using potentially offensive thoughts for comedic effect and not meaning it literally?
I feel like huge swathes of language would need to vanish for people like yourself to be happy no one was being offended anymore. And then those words would just be repurposed to offend at some level eventually. That's what language has done.
[QUOTE=meppers;45524341]fun fact: the slope comment was edited out of the american version of the episode[/QUOTE]
The American version of the show doesn't even have Clarkson in it
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;45527188]I feel like you're using your understanding of regional language and applying it to everywhere in the world like they all know what you know[/QUOTE]
I know a lot of people don't know mong is a racial slur too
it doesn't stop it being a pretty awful word to use on two accounts
Ignorance is a pretty flimsy defense in most cases
More people are offended by something than actually report it; I don't know the exact ratio, but far more than two people thought this was racist, that's why OFCOM has paid so much attention to it.
That aside, they kinda have to investigate claims of racism. It does seem ridiculous, but this is what they're paid to do.
A racial slur was used to refer to someone of that race. That's racism. It'd be racist even if no one had complained.
This is coming from someone who likes Clarkson, too. I'm just sick of hearing people shit themselves in the name of [I]political correctness gone mad![/I]
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;45527676]The American version of the show doesn't even have Clarkson in it[/QUOTE]
For the guy who rated me dumb
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[QUOTE=paul simon;45523650]Comedians aren't allowed to be comedians nowadays.[/QUOTE]
they are if they mock conservatism
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