BBC News presenter Tina Daheley published a letter she wrote to an unnamed restaurant on Twitter on Wednesday in the hopes the establishment can take action after...
She was served cold soup? The waiter spilled some on her?
...a fellow diner repeatedly used a racist slur in her presence.
Wait, seriously? You expect restaurants to police their customers' conversation now?
The journalist went on to explain that a 'white, middle-aged man repeatedly used an extremely offensive racist word starting with the letter P' when discussing cricketer Azeem Rafiq's recent testimony about the racism he experienced within the sport.
Oh no! Well, thank goodness he wasn't repeating the cricketer's antisemitism and letching instead. But maybe she'd have had no problem with that?
Tina added: 'I considered confronting them, but was so upset I couldn't bring myself to it. Perhaps he was doing it to provoke me, (I'm a BBC news presenter), perhaps he was annoyed that he was sitting next to two women of colour, perhaps he didn't even consider us.'
So you think it should be 'stood up to'. Why didn't you, then?
'After weeks of thinking about it and feeling powerless to do anything about it, I'm bringing it to your attention in the hope that you can take action.'
Ah, I see. You think it should be someone else's job.
Tina concluded: 'I don't think this behaviour should go unchallenged. In 2021 there is no place for it.'
What's up, sweetie, Naga getting all the publicity and you think you should have a bite at that cake too?
"MeMeMe takes her BBC wokeism out to lunch" or "MeMeMe goes virtue signalling" = ideal titles for a new book series.
ReplyDelete"'I don't think this behaviour should go unchallenged." Yet she didn't challenge it when it happened. Amazing.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the restaurant supposed to do, weeks later? I've a funny feeling this never happened at all
Surprised it wasn't the extremely racist word beginning with "N".*
ReplyDeleteTurkmen come from Turkmenistan, Uzbeks from Uzbekistan, Kazakhs from Kazakhstan, Tajiks from Tajikistan, Kyrgyz from Kyrgyzstan, Afghans from Afghanistan, so who comes from Pakistan? Answers on a feckin' postcard.
What a twat.
* Nigerians come from Nigeria. It's not a '...stan' it's an '...ia', so they ain't Nigers.
Fire up the Quattro, a BBC presenter is upset
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I wonder what Kane William-Smith thinks of it all.
ReplyDelete“Fire up the Quattro”
ReplyDeleteExcellent! I’d forgotten about that.
-Justin
I suppose if they were discussing that never-any-good ex-cricketer Azeem Rafiq, a well-balanced bloke on account of having a chip on both shoulders, then only using the 'P' word would count as a very moderate position to take.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure all those whose careers have been wrongly ended by Rafiq would exercise a somewhat stronger vocabulary, probably featuring the legitimacy of his birth and the point of its delivery.
Re the Munchetty woman - since when has "Munchkin" been a race?
ReplyDelete"...ideal titles for a new book series."
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"I've a funny feeling this never happened at all"
Me too...
"...so who comes from Pakistan?"
Everyone? By dinghy, usually.
"I wonder what Kane William-Smith thinks of it all."
Good point!
"I'm sure all those whose careers have been wrongly ended by Rafiq would exercise a somewhat stronger vocabulary, probably featuring the legitimacy of his birth and the point of its delivery."
Quite!
"... since when has "Munchkin" been a race?"
LOL!