[News] POLL TIME - Danny Baker’s tweet

[The Clamp]

I have always had mixed feelings about DB. On the one hand he can be very funny and down to earth but equally he can be a smug know it all. Also he doesn’t like BHA and has been rather vocal on that at times.

 

[Brovion]

I don't consider myself to be a snowflake, so maybe someone can correct me. But my first reaction when I scrolled down to see the monkey picture was "ohhh, god".

Having listened to DB over a number of years on radio and pods, I'm absolutely certain he didn't intend this as being a racist jibe. But man alive (as he would say), given the fact that its a mixed race baby, the first in the history of the royal family, to then post a pic today of some people leading out a monkey...

I'll put it down to misjudgement. But bloody hell Danny.

Yeah, agreed. I don't think Danny Baker has become a card-carrying member of the KKK, but using a picture of a monkey to represent a baby with African heritage is, um, not a particularly bright (or nice) thing to do.

 

[Eeyore]

Sadly, this little blunder by Danny Baker is now a snapshot of the unforgiving, self righteous society's hunt for the latest bogeyman.

Reminds me of the time some NSCers were seemingly calling for the public execution of a regretful teenager for his coarse tweet about AK and his dad. Luckily, he wasn't at an age where such a demise was historically permissible. ...

I honestly feel bewildered by it all. How social media breeds packs of ordinary folk into salivating and hungry, culturally pious, moral thought police. The punishment for everything is death by moral outrage. And judgement is before trial.

We don't want to be rational, we don't want to consider, we don't want mercy, we want to cover the multitude of our own sins with sticky, sanctimonious, outrage.

Sorry some, Danny Baker is not a racist. No hanging at Auntie Beeb today.

 

[Dick Head]

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https://twitter.com/walegates/status/1126413863841300480

 

[studio150]

Should be sacked for this ,shameful and sickening

God bless Prince Archie of Sussex

He’s one of our own

He is neither a Prince, nor of Sussex he is just Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor.

 

[Deadly Danson]

Sadly, this little blunder by Danny Baker is now a snapshot of the unforgiving, self righteous society's hunt for the latest bogeyman.

Reminds me of the time some NSCers were seemingly calling for the public execution of a regretful teenager for his coarse tweet about AK and his dad. Luckily, he wasn't at an age where such a demise was historically permissible. ...

I honestly feel bewildered by it all. How social media breeds packs of ordinary folk into salivating and hungry, culturally pious, moral thought police. The punishment for everything is death by moral outrage. And judgement is before trial.

We don't want to be rational, we don't want to consider, we don't want mercy, we want to cover the multitude of our own sins with sticky, sanctimonious, outrage.

Sorry some, Danny Baker is not a racist. No hanging at Auntie Beeb today.

Absolutely, totally this. I can't stand it - let's reserve our condemnation for real racism with intent which is abominable rather than a misinterpreted gag. Baker's final apology around the time of the final whistle last night was sincere and should be the end of it but he has just tweeted that he has opened the door to the Daily Mail asking "Do you think black people look like monkeys?". What the hell is wrong with us - how on earth did this happen?

 

[Dick Head]

Talent is there for all to witness on the Daz doorstep challenge.

Would your whites pass the doorstep challenge?

 

[Ernest]

He is neither a Prince, nor of Sussex he is just Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor.

A JCL then

 

[A1X]

Misjudged rather than racist IMHO. He's had the decency to delete it and apologise, case closed for my money.

 

[Deadly Danson]

And now he's saying he's been fired by 5Live. If true, the world has gone utterly stark raving bonkers.

 

[The Clamp]

Unfortunately for DB it will be many people's first experience of him. They will see a middle aged white football fan making a "racist" tweet.

Nothing to see here, misjudged post. Forgivable.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Danny Baker...fired

For tweeting and image of......

 

[Gritt23]

It was a bit daft.

Fired by who? BBC, from his 5 Live show on Saturday mornings?

 

[LamieRobertson]

Oops...looks like its been covered already ..apols

 

[LamieRobertson]

It was a bit daft.

Fired by who? BBC, from his 5 Live show on Saturday mornings?

His Saturday show

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[father_and_son]

Generally like the bloke... but this was spectacularly stupid and completely inexcusable. Anyone sober even to tweet who spent more than a nano-second thinking about it would see the very offensive connotations.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

What commercial radio channel will his Saturday show be moving to ?

 

[lost in london]

What a pillock.

Of course he wasn't being racist, but whilst I'm normally completely against the pitchfork mob demanding people be fired, if you're in the public eye and you don't know what reaction you're going to get to posting something like that, then you're a fool.

Fortunately for him he'll get a job somewhere else so won't suffer too much, but what a daft thing to do.

 

[Eeyore]

Sadly, this little blunder by Danny Baker is now a snapshot of the unforgiving, self righteous society's hunt for the latest bogeyman.

Reminds me of the time some NSCers were seemingly calling for the public execution of a regretful teenager for his coarse tweet about AK and his dad. Luckily, he wasn't at an age where such a demise was historically permissible. ...

I honestly feel bewildered by it all. How social media breeds packs of ordinary folk into salivating and hungry, culturally pious, moral thought police. The punishment for everything is death by moral outrage. And judgement is before trial.

We don't want to be rational, we don't want to consider, we don't want mercy, we want to cover the multitude of our own sins with sticky, sanctimonious, outrage.

Sorry some, Danny Baker is not a racist. No hanging at Auntie Beeb today.

I stand corrected. He has been despatched. Sorry no-one got there in time with their knitting.