Jade Goodie
She got it a bit easy last night, didn't she? With no crowd and all? They should've had a crowd and armed them with rotten veg to throw.
I don't really think she's racist - just dumb as fuck and doesn't think before she opens that massive gob of hers but she still needs a good public flogging to pull her back down to earth and to make her realise that she's not as big as she thinks.
25th most influential person on the planet? My arse.
I don't really think she's racist - just dumb as fuck and doesn't think before she opens that massive gob of hers but she still needs a good public flogging to pull her back down to earth and to make her realise that she's not as big as she thinks.
25th most influential person on the planet? My arse.
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i agree - racism is a ridiculous arguement to use against her when there's a wealth of other things that are far more obvious - talentless, pointless, mingin' (hard 'g') and the mother... oh the mother...
watching her squirm under the cameras last night was painful. It showed how little intelligence she has that she couldn't explain that if shilpa was from the north or scotland, goody would have still taken the michael out of her accent but because she has a different colour of skin, the politically correct crowd has jumped all over it and made a huge deal out of nothing.pricks.
This is not to say that she wasn't a massive bully, egged on as she was by her equally-brainless cohorts but racism played no part in it. I thought that shilpa going into the diary room with her to explain that she didn't see it as racism was the most gracious thing i've seen in ages, and i have no doubt that this was because she had worked out how damaging this would be for jade.
jade's done well for herself to get where she has but i think she'll find it easier to take her 8 million and 'do the beckham' thing by heading over to the states because she'll never live this down here because of her lack of redeeming qualities.
By the way, the fact that blair and brown both chose to mention it at all is a testament to how fucking atrociously desparate they are to get positive airtime and is utterly inexcusable - she's ignorant but they're just pricks imo
Furthermore, and here is the irony in all of this for me. In no way is it ok to be prejudice towards someone based on their looks, race. But it's perfectly acceptable for the media (and people) in this country to call her a pig, pig-faced, etc - to take the piss out of her looks. The Sun even morfed her into a pig with a dodgy PS job. How is that ok but the former is not? Is it not the exact same thing?
I did not see the original Big Brother, I moved here after that. But I've sat here for years now trying to figure out why the public and media have been bullying this person when the reasons given for the hatred in no way call for or justify the feeling. So many hypocrisies, it disgusts me.
People LOVE to hate this person, and I find that infinitely scarier than anything that went on in that house.
~ vomits onto the monitor
this reminds me a little bit of the early 19th century witch hunts. i say we BURN HER!
oh, wrong thread...
I was impressed by Shilpa, she handled herself with dignity, and her perceived notion of Jade's inflections were true to the outside world's (rather hasty) reaction. I do think that Big Brother should have exercised some sort of damage limitation exercise and reprimanded the contestants, but of course it was all about ratings - and how on Monday there something like 2 million watching, and by Friday 5.5million had tuned in. They should have nipped it in the bud. Now i can't wait to see what Jo and Danielle have to say about it, i think they're just a culpable as Jade - they egged her on along with that dimwit Jack and she's ended up worse out of it all. The other three really haven't got anything of importance to come back to, but Jade has two kids that are forever to going to hear bad shit about their mum. Not nice.
Afterwards, Danielle made some comments which I would call racist - like "I wish she would fuck off home" and "she can't even speak english properly" (the irony being that Shilpa has a far greater grasp of the English language than both of them) and Danielle should be held accountable for those things, not Jade. Though, Jade was a racist from that day forward, often being quoted as having said them. The fact that people can't separate personal problems that someone has with a person with problems someone has with a culture undermines the seriousness of racism, in my opinion.
The truth of the matter - from my perspective (again, I've witnessed publicly sanctioned media bullying of Jade for years for being 'monumentally stupid, pig-faced and a fat slag'), is that the media and public don't care whether she's guilty or not - again, people love to hate her and it only serves to feed the hate campaign. Somehow, in all of this talk of bullying and being prejudice towards someone for whatever reason - the irony that the media and the public en masse have been doing this to this person for years seems to be lost on most. Hypocrisy at its best! It's not right on any level and does anything BUT promote tolerance based on difference.
I think in the future Ofcom should wait to publish figure of complaints until the dust settles because the running commentary of complaint figures as they come in really did encourage more and more people to complain.
Also, channel 4 said that 5.6 million people watched on one night and in total theres been 40000 complaints, then thats only 0.7% who disagree (added with media spin) and if you were to look at viewer figures over the amount of time which they've poured in, I bet it's an even smaller percentage. So, while I'm sure a lot of people disagree with what was said, it seems the vast majority weren't overly offended. I wonder how many of those complaints were directly aimed at Jade and how many at Danielle, etc?
Anyhoo. I still would've liked to see her get rotten cabbage thrown at her the other night. Not necessarily because of the racism malarky, but just for a laugh (and to bully her a bit).
what's up with the attacking a person with slurs on their looks? people are born with turned-up noses, etc. i had a sad feeling when i read someone calling her "pigfaced".
on one hand.. slag someone because they have the face they were born with.
otoh.. wonder (seemingly in a mean way) if they've had plastic surgery.
this kind of television seems like a very bad thing. :) i predict it won't last.
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seriously... WAKE THE FUCK UP
There are all sorts of issues surrounding this, not just racism. My whole stance with this is about fairness, judgement based on facts and responsibility of the media in reporting. I'm not sure how that makes me racist, if that's what you're implying - I've always thought of myself as quite the opposite really.
There is certainly racism in this country as I've come to experience first hand on many occasions. I'm an immigrant, so it comes up often with people (usually taxi drivers) who have lots to say on issues surrounding immigration, culture, ethnicity. It's a problem for sure, but there are all sorts of other types of intolerance that are equally disturbing which this situation brings up rather clearly.