Sunday, September 11, 2011

Tory councillor sacked from teaching job at grammar school after calling rioters 'jungle bunnies' on Facebook

We read:
"A grammar school teacher and Tory councillor has lost his job after calling rioters who brought havoc to the country last month ‘jungle bunnies’.

Bob Frost, a maths teacher at the prestigious Sir Roger Manwood’s grammar and boarding school, made the comment on the social networking site Facebook on August 7.

Soon afterwards the 49-year-old was suspended from his position as a Tory councillor on Dover District Council in Kent after fellow councillors spotted his offensive comments on the social networking site.

Then on Monday this week Mr Frost lost his job at the highly-regarded 912-pupil grammar school, the 96th oldest school in the UK, which was founded in 1563 by barrister Sir Roger Manwood.

Mr Frost wrote on August 10 - three days after writing ‘jungle bunnies’ in reference to the rioters on his Facebook wall - that he had been phoned up by a fellow councillor and accused of racism.

‘Needless to say I did not mean to use any offensive racist term and was referring to the urban jungle.’

He added: ‘As for the bunny bit it was originally ‘animals’, but I thought people might object to me calling fellow humans this so I chose something I thought was innocent and also cuddly.’

Source

You lose your job if you criticize black thieves?? Their behavior certainly owed more to the jungle than to civilization.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

When will they learn. With so many weak-minded people deeply addicted to political correctness, the truth is no longer appropriate.

C.S. MacGuffin said...

The man has a right to say what he thinks, no matter how racist or offensive.

On the other hand, pretending he didn't know "jungle bunnies" was a racist term and thinking we're too stupid to know he's lying is even more offensive in my book.

If you want to say your mind, have the testicular fortitude to stand behind it - don't use the same tactic liberals use and feign innocence or ignorance.

Anonymous said...

Nothing happened to the rioters, but a teacher who criticized them got the sack! How screwed up is that system. Ours here in the US is not far behind.

Anonymous said...

Well, unfortunately this person failed the 'idiot' test - he didn't realise that in the UK nowadays making such remarks on a public forum will:
a) get you suspended from council, and
b) get you sacked from many jobs.
As for what he said - unfortunately truth is often too 'hurtful' for many to hear in this crazy world of ours.