Monday, August 03, 2015




"Jungle" another bad word

A senior BBC reporter triggered a furious response today after asking a group of black refugees: 'Are you going back to the Jungle?'

Viewers accused Diplomatic Correspondent Paul Adams of making a racist slur - not realising that the 'Jungle' is the real name of the huge migrant camp just outside Calais.

Mr Adams has spent the past two nights with migrants desperately trying to get to the Channel Tunnel and then on Britain.

After a group were repelled by French police at the fences around the Eurotunnel terminal the journalist asked them: 'Are you going back to the Jungle or will you try again?'

Shocked viewers, many of them watching early this morning on BBC Breakfast appeared to misunderstand the reference.

Ashleigh Lianne ‏tweeted: 'Will you be trying again or going back to the jungle' a BBC reporter says to a Black man in Calais.. Wow'

Mark Davies wrote: Did I just hear a reporter on BBC ask a migrant if he was going to go back to the jungle?

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The professionally offended are very active and ready to pounce on any perceived slight.

Anonymous said...

"Fools rush in ..." is a saying which comes to mind. (Referring to the offended rather than the migrants!)

Anonymous said...

Yep, stupidity and ignorance knows no bounds.
When people rush to offense they sometimes falls over their own prejudices...

Use the Name, Luke said...

What I want to know is this: Who thought it was a good idea to name a refugee camp "Jungle"?

Anonymous said...

'Jungle' is a tactless term for the camp, but presumably it refers to the chaotic nature of the place; but as almost all the inhabitants don't come from such a tropical area and mostly or only from north Africa or the middle East, the term isn't relevant from that point of view.

Bird of Paradise said...

If they had been around during the time of Rubyard Kipling they would have barred him from calling it THE JUNGLE BOOK they would have banned the term ITS A JUNGLE OUT THERE and then theres George of the Jungle. This PC nonsense is getting out of hand

Alpha Skua said...

I can remember back in the 90's when liberal eco-wackos wanted us to use the term RAINFOREST instead of JUNGLE or course these same crack-pots wanted us to rename Pet Shops as COMPANION ANIMAL SHOPS(A wacko named Micheal W.Fox came up with this one)then they wanted Zoos to be renamed WILDLIFE CONSERVATION PARKS just some bunch of nuts with too much time on their hands and besides it would take up too much space on a sign