The BBC appeals to the Klu Klux Klan demographic
Three racist Cocks
“Why would you want a Mexican car? Because cars reflect national characteristics don’t they,” Hammond said. “Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.”
Richard Hammond
And then Clarkson stepped in to support and reinforce Hammond, who continued, referring to Mexican food as 'refried sick'.Clarkson said the Mexican ambassador would be to lazy to complain. Answering to criticisms after the programme, Hammond was facetious. 'It can't be racist, we're the factual programme of the year.'
Now this could be seen to be funny. But the truth is it is deeply sinister. It is deeply sinister because one of the major consumers of Top Gear are punters in the United States. And when people in the United States are prejudiced against Mexicans they don't just make jokes about long moustaches. They go further.
Now this could be seen to be funny. But the truth is it is deeply sinister. It is deeply sinister because one of the major consumers of Top Gear are punters in the United States. And when people in the United States are prejudiced against Mexicans they don't just make jokes about long moustaches. They go further.
They introduce racist laws like the racial profiling law in Arizona.
Racism against Mexican Americans and Mexicans in the United States is no laughing matter. The anti-Mexican and Mexican sentiment in the US among white racist groupings are on a par with the racism of the EDL in Britain and the BNP against Islam.
It was a cheap jibe calculated to win the sympathy of the BBCs target market in the US. Obviously the BBC calculated that making racist comments about Mexicans would endear them to a certain demographic in the US.
The truth about everything that happens on Top Gear, as Jeremy Clarkson has explained, is that it is scripted and choreographed. It is far less spontaneous than it comes across on TV. If racist jokes were planned against Mexicans then they were done so for a reason. With the authorisation of the BBC.
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It was a cheap jibe calculated to win the sympathy of the BBCs target market in the US. Obviously the BBC calculated that making racist comments about Mexicans would endear them to a certain unpleasant car owning demographic in the US.
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Now in my view this is far more serious than the Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand fracas. The moral bankruptcy of the BBC will be exposed when absolutely nothing of any consequence happens to the cash cow or its presenters. What we will get is a snide and insincere apology and Top Gear and the BBC will quickly move on.
I suggest that if Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear producers and BBC apparatchiks think it is safe to denigrate Mexicans and reinforce dangerous cultural stereotypes in the hope that they will reach the racist demographic that other people do not reach in the US and be considered 'Good 'ol boys' then they be subjected to some of the techniques used for re-education in Guantanamo suggested by the CIA Kubark manual.
I suggest Ranchero music played at a very high volume while the Top Gear presenters and producers and BBC executives watch endless hours of the beatings given to Mexican immigrants by US border police projected on their cell walls.
And if they can come out after a week of that still smiling and making racist jokes then I'll be surprised and impressed.
Listen you three Cocks.
The social security system in Mexico means that if you lose your job in Mexico you work to live. The second largest source of external revenue to Mexico are remittences from the US, where hard working Mexican people save and then send their earnings home to their families. If you want a stereotype for lazy selfish bastards, look in the mirror. Look to your own 'bwoken Bwitan'.
Listen you three Cocks.
The social security system in Mexico means that if you lose your job in Mexico you work to live. The second largest source of external revenue to Mexico are remittences from the US, where hard working Mexican people save and then send their earnings home to their families. If you want a stereotype for lazy selfish bastards, look in the mirror. Look to your own 'bwoken Bwitan'.
Phil Hall
Comment from Judith in Mexico
Como ves Phil? Tu que has vivido en México y que tus hijas son mexicanas? Para nosotros ha sido indignante el comentario de esta bola de IGNORANTES, y que aunque México fuera el país más atrasado del mundo, no tienen ningún derecho de expresarse así de ningún País y menos de nuestro MEXICO LINDO Y QUERIDO.
Translation
What do you think Phil? You who have loved in Mexico and have Mexican daughters? For us the comments from this bunch of IGNORANT idiots have caused great indignation, and even if Mexico were the most backward country in the world they still shouldn't have the right to expresthemselves that way about any country, least of all our Beatiful and BELOVED Mexico.
Comment from Judith in Mexico
Como ves Phil? Tu que has vivido en México y que tus hijas son mexicanas? Para nosotros ha sido indignante el comentario de esta bola de IGNORANTES, y que aunque México fuera el país más atrasado del mundo, no tienen ningún derecho de expresarse así de ningún País y menos de nuestro MEXICO LINDO Y QUERIDO.
Translation
What do you think Phil? You who have loved in Mexico and have Mexican daughters? For us the comments from this bunch of IGNORANT idiots have caused great indignation, and even if Mexico were the most backward country in the world they still shouldn't have the right to expresthemselves that way about any country, least of all our Beatiful and BELOVED Mexico.
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