BBC in £1MILLION racism lawsuit over Jeremy Clarkson's 'slope' quip

[Dedworth]

BBC faces £1MILLION racism lawsuit over Jeremy Clarkson's 'slope' quip on Top Gear Burma special

• Somi Guha, 36, is suing BBC over alleged racist remark on Top Gear
• Jeremy Clarkson caused outrage by using word 'slope' in Burma special
• Term is a derogatory phrase for people of Asian descent
• Actress Ms Guha's lawyers say action could cost the BBC £1million
• They demand organisation apologises and takes show off the air

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2xHI8wdiH


Our crackpot legal system allows chancers to start these spurious actions

[les_taxi]

Tell em to .... off they're not part of the EU

[raynaputi]

So I can't use the word "slope" now in front of the Asians?

[grahamw48]

It's a good thing Jeremy doesn't sue every time HE feels insulted.

Clearly some people are having far too easy a time of it in life, if that kind of stuff upsets them.

There are far far more important injustices going on in the world that merit the attention and the time of lawyers and judges.

[joebloggs]

Sue Clarkson, he's the one that said it

[cheekee]

Anything for easy money.

[Terpe]

Jeremy Clarkson's a IMO
........But he makes me laugh sometimes

TBH I also feel there's more important things to consider.
I don't even understand what the negative meaning of 'slope' is.....must be leading a sheltered life..............thank goodness.

[grahamw48]

I thought that Burma special was one of the funniest programmes I've seen in years.

Sometimes they get on my nerves these days, but well done to the Top Gear team for putting that one together.

[Michael Parnham]

I agree with Graham, really funny. Must admit, that's the first time I've ever heard that the word slope referred to Asians, slope to me is a place where you go for a ride on a sledge!

[SimonH]

I don't even understand what the negative meaning of 'slope' is.....must be leading a sheltered life..............thank goodness.

Surely the negative meaning of slope would be incline, or maybe I'm looking at it from the wrong angle

[Terpe]

Surely the negative meaning of slope would be incline, or maybe I'm looking at it from the wrong angle

Yep it depends which way you look at it.
I look at it this way, but others might look at it that way......
different slopes for different folks

[Steve.r]

I Googled it because I had never heard it used before either, I found this..."A derogatory term for people of Asian decent. It is an acronym for Silly Little Opium Peddling Easterner"

ref:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slope

Some people need to get a life!!!

[Terpe]

I Googled it because I had never heard it used before either, I found this..."A derogatory term for people of Asian decent. It is an acronym for Silly Little Opium Peddling Easterner"

ref:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slope

Some people need to get a life!!!

Well you live and learn ......thanks for enlightening those of that didn't know Steve....

[johncar54]

Well, I'm going to slope off and think about that !

[fred]

Is it in the new dictionary yet?
Like "selfy" for instance?
If not then who pronounced it as an official racist term?

[johncar54]

Having just taken a look here :- http://www.slangsearch.com/insults.html
first thing in the morning I am off to see my solicitor to start suing just about everybody I have ever spoken to in my life !!!!!!

[Michael Parnham]

Having just taken a look here :- http://www.slangsearch.com/insults.html
first thing in the morning I am off to see my solicitor to start suing just about everybody I have ever spoken to in my life !!!!!!

[RickyR]

I also have never heard the word slope before, it all seems very OTT.

[Terpe]

Having just taken a look here :- http://www.slangsearch.com/insults.html
first thing in the morning I am off to see my solicitor to start suing just about everybody I have ever spoken to in my life !!!!!!

I looked at that link ........very educational too

[Dedworth]

I always thought it was a derogatory term for Orientals not Asians in the wider sense.

Apocalypse Now :-

Kilgore: We'll come in low out of the rising sun. About a mile out, we'll put on the music. Lance: Music? Kilgore: Yeah, I use Wagner. Scares the hell out of the slopes. My boys love it.

[Dedworth]

[Arthur Little]

... just shows how far down the "slippery slope" society has slid when the racist card is trumped up for the use of such a simple word.

[Dedworth]

The pathetic BBC have apologised to this attention seeking woman :-

Top Gear: BBC issues apology over Jeremy Clarkson's 'slope' remark

Read more: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...#ixzz2zn044lmU

[lordna]

Andy Wilman, executive producer for the BBC show admitted that their use of the word 'slope' in the recent Top Gear Burma Special was a light-hearted word play joke referencing both the build quality of the bridge and the local Asian man who was crossing it. Therefor the complaint against the BBC is justified and they have rightly apologised.

That should be the end of it, hopefully, particularly if they do us all a favour and take those 3 idiots off the air before they offend someone else.

[les_taxi]

Worlds gone mad!
Everyone offended these days

[grahamw48]

Let's all just wrap ourselves in cotton wool and hide in our houses in case someone looks at us the wrong way or we accidentally say a bad word.

[johncar54]

Let's all just wrap ourselves in cotton wool and hide in our houses in case someone looks at us the wrong way or we accidentally say a bad word.

Or you could come and live in Spain where we don't have all that 'PC' rubbish.

[Arthur Little]

Worlds gone mad!

Everyone offended these days

Les ... it seems folk everywhere are being forced into keeping their mouths shut for fear of causing offence to the over~sensitive, "politically correct brigade".

Thinking back to my formative years in the mid to late 1950s, I'm reminded of the rhyme, "Sticks 'n' stones may break my bones ... ... but names will never harm me"!

Okay ... Jeremy Clarkson might not be the most tactful of celebrities - given his reputation for outspokenness - but I'm sure (like myself) very few of us here were aware of the connotations in this latest tongue in cheek gaffe of his before reading about it 3 weeks ago.

Changed days. And NOT for the better !

... whatever happened to freedom of speech?

[Dedworth]

I love the clip of the Huey Gunships filmed in Luzon - my #21. No doubt Somi Guha would find that offensive

[les_taxi]

As always offended especially if there is money to be made

Blimey, if we were at war with Germany we could not say 'Hun' anymore in case we upset Hitler

Bunch of oversensitive, pc knobs