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Pretty amazing to see how it’s completely ok to release this kind of incredibly racist headlines on offial state media in the UK. As if ”white people” were som

by illuminati1911 9y ago

Pretty amazing to see how it’s completely ok to release this kind of incredibly racist headlines on offial state media in the UK. As if ”white people” were some magical group of people who share ways of thinking amongst themselves.

friend-monoid 9y ago
Eh, who cares.
DamonHD 9y ago
BBC is not "official state media": there is no such thing in the UK. Also, I haven't read the piece yet, and the headline is a bit bait-y, but there is nothing inherently evil in that title. If there is a particularly low correlation between being white and being in (or understanding) an arranged marriage, then the whole thing may be objectively reasonable. I repeat: I haven't read it yet. Edit: having read it it's not in the least bit "racist". It's quite interesting and makes a clear distinction between "arranged" and "forced" that I had not thought about clearly before. Facts: it's a whole new world out there.
- dogma1138 9y ago
  If I don’t pay my TV license Ill go to jail eventually and it pays for the BBC so this is as state media as it comes in the West today. It’s also government owned (partially BBC America, World etc. are separate entities and if you are in the UK you can’t even access bbc.com) https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/bbc https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/bbc
  - DamonHD 9y ago
    I don't watch TV and when single, in the face of some rudeness and disbelief from the horrible licensing authorities, did not have nor require a licence. The BBC World Service has always been a Foreign-Office paid-for propaganda arm, but the rest not so. I don't believe the UK government owns the BBC: but please show me otherwise. There are explicitly state-controlled entities in other countries, with an editorial line deferential to the state. No UK government ever likes the BBC's line much, whatever the government's political colour, which I regard as a GoodThing(TM).
    - dogma1138 9y ago
      BBC is a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. Seriously BBC is as state owned as it gets in the west, to be more specific it’s a statutory corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_corporation BBC world is actually not tied directly to the British government. And how exactly have you managed to avoid paying a license since any TV monitor and today a device capable of running iPlayer counts for the license.
      - DamonHD 9y ago
        Before I had a family (which was some time ago) I did not watch TV nor own a TV. And iPlayer and its like were not dreamt of, still less a twinkle in the eye of a TV licence law. (I ran one of the first UK ISPs around that time.) I was not required to pay a licence fee and so did not. My family does watch TV and so we do have a licence. I still don't watch TV.

friend-monoid 9y ago

Eh, who cares.

DamonHD 9y ago

BBC is not "official state media": there is no such thing in the UK. Also, I haven't read the piece yet, and the headline is a bit bait-y, but there is nothing inherently evil in that title. If there is a particularly low correlation between being white and being in (or understanding) an arranged marriage, then the whole thing may be objectively reasonable. I repeat: I haven't read it yet. Edit: having read it it's not in the least bit "racist". It's quite interesting and makes a clear distinction between "arranged" and "forced" that I had not thought about clearly before. Facts: it's a whole new world out there.

dogma1138 9y ago
If I don’t pay my TV license Ill go to jail eventually and it pays for the BBC so this is as state media as it comes in the West today. It’s also government owned (partially BBC America, World etc. are separate entities and if you are in the UK you can’t even access bbc.com) https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/bbc https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/bbc
- DamonHD 9y ago
  I don't watch TV and when single, in the face of some rudeness and disbelief from the horrible licensing authorities, did not have nor require a licence. The BBC World Service has always been a Foreign-Office paid-for propaganda arm, but the rest not so. I don't believe the UK government owns the BBC: but please show me otherwise. There are explicitly state-controlled entities in other countries, with an editorial line deferential to the state. No UK government ever likes the BBC's line much, whatever the government's political colour, which I regard as a GoodThing(TM).
  - dogma1138 9y ago
    BBC is a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. Seriously BBC is as state owned as it gets in the west, to be more specific it’s a statutory corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_corporation BBC world is actually not tied directly to the British government. And how exactly have you managed to avoid paying a license since any TV monitor and today a device capable of running iPlayer counts for the license.
    - DamonHD 9y ago
      Before I had a family (which was some time ago) I did not watch TV nor own a TV. And iPlayer and its like were not dreamt of, still less a twinkle in the eye of a TV licence law. (I ran one of the first UK ISPs around that time.) I was not required to pay a licence fee and so did not. My family does watch TV and so we do have a licence. I still don't watch TV.