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ITV removes Big Brother episode over pro-Palestine t-shirt, apologises to anti-Palestinians

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 24, 2024, 5:02 pm

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/10/24/itv-removes-big-brother-episode-over-pro-palestine-t-shirt-apologises-to-anti-palestinians/

Re: ITV removes Big Brother episode over pro-Palestine t-shirt, apologises to anti-Palestinians

Posted by steve <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=steve' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 24, 2024, 6:36 pm, in reply to "ITV removes Big Brother episode over pro-Palestine t-shirt, apologises to anti-Palestinians"

The Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville was interviewed on the local news here wearing a blue and yellow brooch in the shape of Ukraine. No apologies.

Psychologist "apologises" "Wasn't aware of implications" of declaring oneself a decent human being,

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 24, 2024, 7:13 pm, in reply to "ITV removes Big Brother episode over pro-Palestine t-shirt, apologises to anti-Palestinians"

presumably.

Why the hell did she back down?

I expect more from Psychologists.

Not sure why.

Re: Psychologist "apologises" "Wasn't aware of implications" of declaring oneself a decent human being,

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 24, 2024, 10:19 pm, in reply to "Psychologist "apologises" "Wasn't aware of implications" of declaring oneself a decent human being,"

I wouldn't hold your breath, they're the second most corrupt trade in the country.

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Re: ITV removes Big Brother episode over pro-Palestine t-shirt, apologises to anti-Palestinians

Posted by John Monro <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=John+Monro' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 24, 2024, 9:26 pm, in reply to "ITV removes Big Brother episode over pro-Palestine t-shirt, apologises to anti-Palestinians"

"Any offensive messaging associated with the image does not reflect the values or beliefs of Big Brother."

Where is the offence? It's a water-melon. It shows support for the Palestinian flag and its murdered tens of thousands.

The true offence here is that the BBC cannot distinguish between a moral principle and a geopolitical convenience. That the show is called "Big Brother" is peculiarly apt. Perhaps the BBC should be renamed the Big Brother Corporation.

If the lady said she didn't realise what the emblem meant, first, I don't believe her, and second it might have been a chance for her faint moral stance, now extinguished, to have been more vocally supported and the BBC better challenged. Another loss - a bit like those Labour MPs and the letter about NATO all retracting their stance. I hesitate to call the lady's response moral cowardice, I don't know her, but in regard to the Labour MPs it certainly was, and 500,000 dead Ukrainians later the moral cowardice merely worsens.

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