Sir David Jason forced to say sorry after making a 'racist' joke on live radio
From Britain:
"It was meant to be a bit of harmless fun. But when Sir David Jason made a joke about Pakistanis on a live radio show some didn't see the funny side.
Last night, the award-winning actor found himself accused of making inappropriate remarks and being out of touch with reality after his joke on Christian O'Connnell's Breakfast Show. The 69-year-old star was appearing on the Who's Calling Christian feature - where celebrities ring Absolute Radio with a chance to win £20,000 for charity.
Sir David, best known for his role as the gaffe-prone Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses, got into hot water when he was asked to leave a question for the next guest. He replied: 'What do you call a Pakistani cloakroom attendant?' Following a pause, he then delivered the punchline: 'Me hat, me coat.'
It is a play on words around the name of the political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi - who was from India, not Pakistan.
But last night Mohammed Shafiq, of Muslim charity the Ramadhan Foundation, said: 'These are inappropriate remarks about a stereotype that may have held a little water in the 50s and 60s but is not true to today. He should've known better.'
A spokesman for Absolute Radio said there had been no complaints to the station from listeners, but O'Connell would apologise on-air today. The joke was edited out of the show's podcast.
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David Jason is a brilliant character actor whom I have long admired but that must be the weakest joke I have ever heard. Perhaps you had to be there. But ANYTHING he said about Pakistanis would have been "racist", of course.
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Personally, i don't think what he said is funny at all, but that's not important. What is (IMO) important, is the fact that Britain is obviously choking on political correctness. Their history, their traditions, their language, and their very way of life, are all being threatened and changed, and for what? To comply with some leftist notion of how things should be? To pretend that we can create some liberal Utopia, where all things are perfect?
The same things are happening here in the US, although even we haven't ventured into the depths of the PC-Twilight Zone as Britain has. Well, not yet anyway, although we're not that far away.
Political correctness is an insidious virus that drains freedom from people who don't seem to have the mental capacity, strength, or intellect to realize it. PC, like terrorism, is fueled by the weakness and lack of will on the part of the people it is intended to infect. And if the people are that weak, perhaps they don't deserve any freedom.
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