Quote Originally Posted by superheavyrhun
Well said Bilbo, I guess it's been on a fair few people's minds, and you have expressed it with a reasonable measure of enthusiasm. I think the whole aspect of racism was raised by the PC obsessed middle-classes who get all het up about a comment like that, but then don't give a monkeys about why our society is churning out millions of Jade Goody types.

Not that I watched itbeforehand, but I watched the summary show on the day it all broke, and it seemed little more than what you'd see in a fairly civilized schoolyard. Racism is a two-way street, having been on the end of a rather interesting beating down in Stepney Green while at uni, I know that better than many.

CC Bilbo, and as I have no idea how this thread started, i guess the wack-ster better get one too.
cc back buddy, glad there is another sane person out there. It really gets me so mad just thinking about it. You summed it perfectly with your comment about our country churning out Jade Goodies right now. The thing is, the modern day reality tv craze is just a modern form of the travelling circus and the gladiator arena's years before that.

The masses like dumbed down, cheap entertainment where they can look can down on their social inferior's and watch them squabble and kill themselves for their amusement.

The media, who in turn only act according to public demand, are entirely responsible for actively promoting social miscreants and exploiting them for the amusement of the public at large, only to turn on them when they act like what they are. Jade is a common as muck girl, brought up on a council estate with no education and no airs and graces. It was the public and the media who decided to put her, and all her family on out tv screens and then they act act all shocked and mortified when she acts in the way a council estate girl with no education and no airs and graces acts.

Mike Tyson summed it up best in an interview I saw. He said that when he fought in his early days, the people flocked to see him and his opponent fight, like two cockroaches, cheering and baying over Tyson ripping his opponent apart. But when Mike started eating in their restuaraunts and dating their women, they didn't like it at all.