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Ignorance and stupidity in the name of comedy
PETER FROST says that the lack of action on Jimmy Carr’s racist anti-Roma outpourings just demonstrate how one racism is considered much more acceptable than others
AMAZINGLY some weeks after the scandal about his disgusting so-called joke about the Roma people being murdered as a positive result of the Nazi Holocaust comedian Jimmy Carr has suffered no punishment and little effect on his career.
Slithering to his defence many undercover internet racists, fascists and overt nazis have come out from under their stones. One of them, in Carr’s defence, has been motoring and generally reactionary journalist and TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
Clarkson says the attacks on Carr are themselves just a sick joke. Of course Clarkson has often been taken to task for often using the racist anti-Romany slur “pikey” himself.
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