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[Cricket] Isa Guha ‘Primate’ Apology



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Chicken Run said:
So she’s a sports commentator using an acronym associated then with valuable players and you think she’s referring to a movie series? You’re wooshing me aren’t you?
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The film series "Most Valuable Primate" was about a chimpanzee playing ice hockey and was a play on words based on "Most Valuable Player". The premise of the film was that MVP can stand for either, so it's not surprising that a commentator can get the two mixed up. Everyone mixes up words sometimes. Just ask Ronnie Barker.



Is it not time we tried to move away from the notion that black people look like chimpanzees? They don't, and this would perhaps be a good time to explain that to the wider world.
 


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Isa is of Indian origin anyway. The frustration about this sort of thing is that it makes 'racism' a meaningless word. It was an accident. Unless, of course, you don't want it to be. I couldn't give a monkeys.
 


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MJsGhost said:
Sod the alleged racism, can people please stop referring to MVP as an acronym?! :wrong:
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In NSC terms it means 'Most Vacuous Poster'
 






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Humans are primates, of course. Still an odd thing to say.
 
















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carlzeiss said:
Do we know if the OB are investigating her ?
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Not sure she'll make the grade, even in the Danish second tier...

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zeemeeuw said:
Well the BBC have used quotation marks in the article, if she didn't say it they would be in big trouble:

Guha responded: "Well, he's the MVP, isn't he? [The] most valuable primate, Jasprit Bumrah. He is the one that's going to do all the talking for India, and why so much focus was on him in the build-up to this Test match, and whether he would be fit."
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Ok thanks for pointing that out, it seems then she said MVP and then went onto use the word ‘primate’ as well in the same sentence which i get might offend, i thought the way BBC wrote that article the “Most Valuable Primate” was their explanation of the acronym MVP she used and she was apologising for describing the player as the MVP 👍
 






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