Thursday, July 18th, 2013, 7:24 pm
Making a Career From Being Racist, and How BBC Helps Promote Racism
Filed under: Shame on Katherine Ryan and shame on the BBC for giving her a platform
T IS astonishing that even in the year 2013 we have people going on TV to express racism under the guise of “it’s just a joke”. It’s offensive and it is despicable. Katherine Ryan, a Canadian comedienne who sadly enough lives in the same country as me, has decided to go all racist in the crappy quasi-corporate channel of the BBC (state propaganda funded by taxpayers but serving plutocrats from all across the globe).
Why does the BBC help Katherine Ryan build her career based on highly offensive racist jokes in Mock the Week? The BBC merely helps characterise and stereotype Brits as arrogant racists who look down on the world, as if that perception is not already hurting the national image.
The BBC should really issue apologies and distance itself from this dirty mouth known as Katherine Ryan. Racism is the lowest form of humour and an easy way to grab laughter at the expense of the pride of other human beings. Saying “it’s just a joke” or “I’m a woman and not a racist” is not a valid excuse. People are offended by jokes that are neither funny nor constructive. Humour is not the best cure when people’s feelings are hurt, and not due to their belief in superstitions (a choice) but because of their genetics (which is not a choice).
Racism is not humour. This is 2013 we’re in. BBC, heal thyself.
Also recent in this site: Racism as a Weapon
October 3rd, 2013 at 1:17 am
what did she say?
October 3rd, 2013 at 6:01 pm
See http://pinoyambisyoso.com/news/canadian-comedienne-katherine-ryan-jokes-about-filipino-children-on-bbc-show-video/
This pattern of jokes reminds me of Nazi rhetoric.
November 20th, 2013 at 12:56 am
I’d say you were over-sensitive but you have missed the point completely. She was making a joke about the duality of western companies to on the one hand say “we aren’t going to test on animals” but on the other hand have their products made in sweat shops in the far east.
November 25th, 2013 at 9:46 pm
Agree with GP. This kind of humour is actually raising awareness of a big problem and the butt of the joke is most certainly not the children. Also I would like to add that your implied judgment of the Brits based on what a Canadian said on a British TV network is a very warped viewpoint. With one argument you are suggesting you want a politically correct world, whilst simultaneously offering to ‘stereotype’ a whole nation based on a joke which clearly offended you so immediately that you had no time to engage you brain and uncover the true message of the jest.
November 29th, 2013 at 9:34 pm
Blimy Roy, how old are you ? Remembering Adolfs speeches.
December 3rd, 2013 at 1:42 am
What an utterly preposterous, ridiculous, libellous article. It amazes me that you have the brainpower to upload a blog post.
December 3rd, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Wahhh my oh so precious feelings have been hurt… So f**king what!
There really is nothing like someone who is always prepared to take offense on someone else’s behalf. You premise is nonsense, your writing is nonsense and your conclusion is nonsense.
Your deliberate misrepresentation of the BBC is just downright funny as anyone with even a modicum of intellect will know your accusation to be laughable bull.
If you’re going to go the full retard, try picking on someone who is demonstrably insane, there’s a whole bucket load of them in the GOP that fit the bill, yet you decided to make up a truck of precious feelings shite instead. Wahhhhhh….
December 30th, 2013 at 11:53 pm
Schestowitz=Cunt
Just to juxtapose the intelligent criticisms of your fucktardedness.
January 3rd, 2014 at 10:54 pm
Are you the marketing staff of Miss Ryan’s PR agency? Or are you so loyal to a random lady, to the point of cursing a messenger who points out bad, tactless humour?
January 16th, 2014 at 9:52 pm
Roy,
I think the simple fact is that you’re just not bright enough to get the irony. Please don’t take offence (!).
June 6th, 2014 at 10:22 am
Roy, you’ve completely missed the point of what she said. Perhaps there’s a bit of a language barrier that prevented you to understanding what she was trying to point out. Next time you fly off the rails, try and make sure have a full grasp of the persons intentions before ranting online and making yourself appear a tad silly.
June 22nd, 2014 at 6:30 am
Calling someone racist is quite serious, but hey you’re a blogger so you didn’t ponder enough. I do not have English as first language but I got the joke and its point is not directed downwards towards the (imagined) children but rather towards you and me and international companies using cheap labour and having double standards, as you did not get it you ought to take “wit” out of your name as you seem to be lacking that. If you have an serious complaint about programs on BBC I believe there is a complaint board and that they have strict rules to follow: ethics, libel etc.
July 15th, 2014 at 7:23 pm
So quick to try be the dude crusading for equal rights
September 13th, 2014 at 2:00 am
You really went to the time and effort to publish this slanderous drivel.
Any person can take offence at any statement or comment of any other person.
Its people like you that are causing us to run blinded into a controlled state where we have no freedom of speech or thought. Where no one can criticise or comment ironically or not on another person or country without fear of legal action.
I suggest if you don’t like something you simply don’t watch it. There are may comments made on mock the week that could be considered racist or sexist or simply slanderous.
I suggest you watch this. Schestowitz, and if you want to get your interfering hands onto something.. why not tackle something worth while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs
September 23rd, 2014 at 12:26 am
Us English ARE racist and so what. Fair play to anyone who picks up on it and wants to lighten the situation. Last I checked everyone has an opinion and everyone has the right to free speech and it’s the constant fear of being politically correct that’s ruined this country. Immigration is a problem here as any old Tom, Sanjeev and Mohammad is allowed to come in. And instead of taking to good old fashioned vigilante ethnic cleansing we make satirical fun of it as only we know how before abandoning ship and moving to Spain. God bless this nation
November 20th, 2014 at 11:51 pm
Fuck off Roy you cunt!
December 3rd, 2014 at 8:37 pm
Get a fucking life you joyless fop.
December 10th, 2014 at 3:47 pm
Yay! I just found the loneliest place on the web!
January 23rd, 2015 at 5:27 pm
Truth is not stereotype, Brits are, and always have been, racist…
January 30th, 2015 at 11:14 am
Thank fuck there are still people out there who are willing to call someone on their politically correct bullshit! Every dick who can make a blog suddenly seems to think themself elevated above the rest like some sage guiding light. Just because you take offense does not mean you’re right, or that you’ve even understood what it is which so horrifies you.
Get off your soap box and out into the real world and engage some real people and you might find your perspective changes and becomes, I don’t know…relevant and balanced?
Or perhaps maybe you’re best staying on here trolling people such as myself by labelling a currently popular celebrity’s photo with a giant provocative and libellous slur in the hope of garnering some page views.
Something that I dare say you did with not so much as half of the thought that Katherine put into the original material herself.
May 9th, 2015 at 6:49 am
that was so racist how SHE SAID THAT COSMETICS COMPANIES WOULDN’T TEST THEIR PRODUCTS ON FILIPINO CHILDREN.
May 28th, 2015 at 6:37 am
As if they were animals. Shades of white supremacy and I shall briefly explain why, as Katherine Ryan might not understand.
For some historical context see how the US (I know she’s Canadian, not US citizen) invaded tortured, raped and mass-murdered a quarter million Filipinos (civilians too, intentionally), calling them (collectively) “niggers” while they defended their country from the invading force. This is a purged part of history (in the US-occupied Philippines they don’t teach about it at schools), but it’s photographically documented with written accounts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O5R7NXck_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y1v1Z3Zeps
To use a punchline that compares Filipinos to animals is not wise. Try to say the same joke with the word “Jews” instead of Filipinos and see how it works out…
August 3rd, 2015 at 10:45 pm
HOW DARE YOU. Accusing all British people of being racist. This is slander against an entire nation, and therefore racism in its own right. I myself consider myself British. However, my grandfather was Canadian, my mother polish, and my father welsh. After your disgusting statement about my country, I challenge you to post a picture of yourself, so we can all stamp the word RACIST across it and publish it online. Im also tempted to forward links to your post to the bbc legal department in order to have you sued for libel.
October 7th, 2015 at 7:36 pm
The Philippines are made up of the following:
Ethnic groups (2010[3])
33.8% Visayan
27.7% Tagalog
9.8% Ilocano
6.8% Bicolano
5.1% Moro
3.1% Kapampangan
1.7% Igorot
1.4% Pangasinense
1.2% Chinese
1.1% Zamboangueño
8.1% other local
0.2% foreign
So Filipino children come from many ethnic backgrounds, so what she said is not racist. And also, if you say it is racist because they are indistinguishable then guess what… YOU ARE A RACIST ROY
October 20th, 2017 at 12:11 pm
Well, you can tell when something is BS, when you cant post proof, and the only place you can report on this tripe is a personal blog, rather than an actual publication.