A B-BBC reader writes to me;
“This is about the Greek triple jumper who was expelled from the Olympics for making a joke about Africans (mosquitoes from Africa have been coming to Africa; she tweeted that ‘at least the West Nile mosquitoes will have some homemade food.’) The BBC writes the following about the tweet and Greece generally:
“Golden Dawn party has soared in popularity, entering parliament for the first time in its history. So calls are growing louder here for Greece to show its other face: open, welcoming and tolerant… Voula Papachristou’s expulsion will be seen as an example of that.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18987678
An athlete is expelled from the Olympic games, probably the pinnacle of her career, for making a joke. And this is praised as an example of tolerance. Talk about Orwellian doublespeak!
Banning someone for making a joke you don’t like – the BBC’s definition of tolerance…”
A crap joke is denouced but the murder of 11 of Israel’s athletes is pushed under the carpet. F**K you BBC.
11 Israelis murdered by muslims. And muslims on the Olympic committee prevented the minutes silence. You will be known by what you do; and they are.
“…but the murder of 11 of Israel’s athletes is pushed under the carpet.
It was mentioned in the opening ceremony. There was a feature about it on PM on Thursday, and an extended report on iPM on Saturday apparently:
http://bbc.in/Qqj3M8
also here: http://bbc.in/QqjAh6
here: http://bbc.in/QqkfPV
here: http://bbc.in/QqkB98
and here:
“A minute’s silence was held at London’s Olympic Village in memory of the 11 Israeli team members killed in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre”
http://bbc.in/QqmbYs
“Banning someone for making a joke you don’t like – the BBC’s definition of tolerance”
The bit you dishonestly left out:
“…a country that rejects racism in any sphere. Voula Papachristou’s expulsion will be seen as an example of that.”
Oops I pressed “like” by mistake. Subtract one.
What I meant was I liked the joke. What’s racist about it? Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Labour Party?
Its not like she called them “darkies”, or whatever expression most incenses white middle class left wing pricks.
“With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat home made food!”
You may disagree that her joke was racist, but what is clear is that it was just one in a series of posts, including video’s from Golden Dawn all of which lead to her being kicked out of the team.
Golden Dawn are (amongst other things) violently anti-semitic, and their leader Nikos Mihaloliakos thinks the Holocaust never happened; ““There were no ovens, no gas chambers, it’s a lie,”.
Voula Papachristou is of course perfectly free to express those views.
But the Greek Olympic Committee is also free to decide who does, or does not, represent the Greek nation.
Except of course the joke is in no way racist.
In that case I’m surprised the BBC didn’t report this then:
Palestinians call minute’s silence “racism”
By Jamie Michaels, July 27, 2012
The head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee has labelled as “racism” the minute’s silence campaign, in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics .
In a letter to International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge, Jibril Rajoub said: “Sports are a bridge for love, communication and the spreading of peace between nations and should not be used for divisiveness and the spread of racism,” according to the Times of Israel, citing the media watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch.
Rajoub has been arrested several times by the Israeli authorities, firstly in 1968, on suspicion of aiding fleeing Egyptian officers where, after his release, he joined the Palestinian terrorist group Fatah. His tasks were to assist terrorists and build up cells in the Hebron hills.
Two years later, he was arrested for throwing a grenade at an Israeli army bus near Hebron. Despite being sentenced to life in prison, he was released in 1985 as one of 1,015 Arab prisoners exchanged for three Israeli hostages. He was soon re-arrested for resuming terrorist activities and released seven months later.
In September 1986, Rajoub was arrested for a fourth time, again for terrorist activity, and was imprisoned until March 1987.
In December 1987, he was arrested for his activities during the first intifada and deported to Lebanon a month later. He relocated to Tunisia, with the exiled Palestine Liberation Organisation troops, as an adviser to Fatah deputy leader Khalil al-Wazir. Rajoub became a close lieutenant of Yasir Arafat and was allegedly behind a plot to assassinate Ariel Sharon in 1992.
In 1994, Rajoub returned to the disputed territories and served as head of the Preventive Security Force until 2002, when he was appointed as Arafat’s national security adviser. During his tenure, he was accused of using force to quash political dissent, including the use of torture.
In an interview with French news agency AFP, Rajoub explained that: “Sport in Palestine is a means to achieve national goals” as well as “a tool of struggle to present the Palestinian cause.”
Rajoub, who also serves as president of the Palestinian Football Association, demanded last month that Israel be banned from hosting the European under-21 Championship in 2013 for jailing a Palestinian footballer, Mahmoud Sarsak, who has since been released.
Black September, a terrorist group that belongs to the Fatah movement of which Rajoub is a member, was responsible for the 1972 massacre.
IOC president Jacques Rogge has declined numerous requests to hold the minute of silence at this evening’s opening ceremony. He held a minute of silence at a small ceremony in the Olympic Village on Monday.
A petition to hold a minute of silence, led by Ankie Spitzer, widow of murdered athlete Andre Spitzer, gathered more than 108,00 signatures worldwide and has received endorsement from President Barack Obama.
It’s just the kind of hypocrisy from the Palestinians that the BBC usually likes to report
“Palestinians call minute’s silence racism”
“…according to the Times of Israel”, according to; “a translation by Palestine Media Watch”, which also uses; “translations based on Google Translate”.
http://goo.gl/WcQDt
Must be true then!
Despite the fact that the Times of Israel link is labeled to the contrary, it takes you to “Palestinian Media Watch” -where the story is -, not “Palestine Media Watch”. The former is considered kosher enough to present evidence to Senate and Parliamentary committees. The latter is a pro-Palestinian PR outfit. You are implying that the Jewish Chronicle and Times of Israel are not too fussy about quoting dodgy sources.
The Times of Israel quotes Rajoub as saying;
“it must not be a cause of division…”
The Jewish Chronicle (using that as a source) quotes him as saying;
“and should not be used for divisiveness…”
See what they did there?
Dez why don’t you stick your self righteous, hand wringing head, back up your arse and let the rest of the free thinking world think that we would be so much better off without the Palestinians. That’s what the rest of the Arab world thinks. And they should know.
LOL!
Helping to make propaganda for genocidal terrorists then Dez? You a Golden Dawn supporter too?
The bit you dishonestly left out –
“The athlete’s remarks had prompted calls from the public and within the Greek government for her to be thrown out of the team.”
I think we all know who the “public” are in cases like this. Handpicked lefties.
I assume you’re using “we all know” in its usual Biased BBC sense of “I have this prejudice but am not prepared to back it up with evidence”?
You’ll be saying that QT audiences are representative of public opinion next.
Hi Scez. You’re still to answer the point that if the BBC is not biased towards the left, why is it only lefties like you who defend from this accusation?
Also not to be discussed:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179171/Walkerville-family-murders-Horrific-death-boy-12-drowned-boiling-water-robbers-raped-mother.html
Any calls for tolerance in St Nellie’s Rainbow Fun House?
Another horrific story of Black on White crime which, as usual, the BBC decide is not worthy of comment. These EVIL people not content to just murder the lad, put him through a horrendous last few minutes of his young life.
On the matter of the Greek athlete’s tasteless comment, I must admit she deserves to be excluded, however I very much take and agree with the point regarding the immoral values and perception of the BBC when it comes to inter racial events.
Perhaps we’ll get a panorama special about the crime situation there. Then again, perhaps not.
The rainbow nation a beacon of law and order.
“Rainbow nation” a much favoured nation, yeah right, terrorist run. I had to switch off the TV coverage of the presentation at the Open last week. Els won, who I have not a lot of time for anyway, but he then started praising Mandela for all he had done for him. Him white boy too.. could not get at the stop button fast enough. utter disgrace.
If he really wanted to have praised the one man bravest to end apartheid he should have mentioned FW de Klerk.
Oh wait, he’s white so doesn’t matter.
Is that the same F W de Klerk who took a tough stance on black-on-white and black-on-black violence, before the country became an ANC hellhole?
Of course in the bbc’s eyes, just as with Israelis, they don’t actually regard white South Africans as having much worth in our world (possibly they don’t even consider them to be human). What they fail to appreciate is that the bbc is one of the most racist organisations on this earth.
My sympathies go out to the family of those who suffered such atrocious murder by entities who can only be described as evil. And there are too many of them in SA in particular and Africa in general.
Sorry if I’m being thick, but what is the “offensive” aspect of the joke?
The offensive aspect of this joke is in the intent. The fact that such a remark might be factually correct does not excuse the intent which in this case is to belittle the objects of the remark.
If a child is born to an unmarried mother, that child could factually be refereed to as a bastard, but would it be considered offensive to refer to the child as such and if that child was black, would it be offensive to correctly insert ‘black’ before it ? I think so even though one could argue the description is factually accurate, to refer to a person in that manner would have the intent to demean or insult.
( Sounds a bit ‘jobsworth’ I must admit.)
It’s the way you tell them.
Sorry, but the question was asked.
( Must ask David to reinstate the delete button )
@The General
So insults are illegal??
I don’t believe they should be but the PC laws have made them so when directed towards those of colour.
And there was me thinking the silly Greek cow was some mass murderer.
The left and the BBC, love to have a side of hypocrisy with their order of intolerance and bigotry.
“You are free to think whatever we tell you to think.”
Fascist bastards the lot of them.
I agree. the strangest thing is that most of the first ‘page’ is taken up with Golden Dawn and Mr Kasidiaris…things that have not even an iota of relevance to the story.
…but, you see…to use such ‘hate speech’, as we choose to define it, is to incite discrimination and violence against the most vulnerable members of society. This will encourage the growing right-wing extremism that is presently the most demonstrable and potent threat to community cohesion and the inclusiveness of our multi-cultural societies. It’s this kind of outrageously inflammatory language that will lead to more incidents of right-wing extremist terrorism, that is threatening to break out en masse at any moment. We must therefore not allow to go unpunished the expression of any sentiments that might be deemed socially unacceptable by anyone who possesses the correct set of superior sensibilites and the assumed power to enforce them. We must clamp down harshly on any inappropriate freedom of expression, in order to promote tolerance and diversity. Words are so much more damaging than actions, and we have an absolute duty to protect those vulnerable groups from any potential harm these words might cause.
You see, it’s not hard to explain…not when you’re certain in your knowledge of what’s best for everyone and possess the required amount of officiousness to assert your self-proclaimed authority on others.