Big Brother Racism Row

Somewhat of a storm in a tea-cup is brewing over events in the Celebrity Big Brother house over on Britain’s Channel Four. In case you are sensible enough to not waste your life watching this lumpenprole drivel a brief synopsis would be that certain contestants have ganged-up on another contestant of Asian parentage and have been making remarks which have been interpreted as being racist.

I have taken a look at footage of the alleged incidents myself and on balance I think its fair to say that there is perhaps a grain of truth in the accusations of racism but nevertheless its marginal and not terribly strong in nature, certainly not sufficiently strong to warrant the controversy and attention that it is receiving. With all that’s wrong in the world one does wonder about people’s priorities sometimes but what makes me a little angry is that its leading to unfounded accusations that the British people are by and large racist. Nothing, in my personal view could be further from the truth. We went out last night for drinks with an Asian friend and naturally this subject came up in conversation and she most enthusiastically agreed with me in the opinion that Britain is one of the least racist countries in the world and quite undeserving of this slander.

A better interpretation might be that after decades of propaganda the people of Britain have developed a severe chip on their shoulder about class and as a result choose quite poorly in whom to place their attention and endow with “celebrity status”, Miss Jade Goody is just such an example. She has risen in celebrity almost entirely because her stupidity and lack of “class” is somehow viewed by the vacuous telly-obsessed underclass as somehow either entertaining or virtuous, representing a society utterly devoid of class and trimmed to possibly the very lowest common denominator. At least these couch-potatoes can say with certainty to themselves, no matter how pitiful they are themselves, that they are better than her.

Well now its payback time for Ms. Goody, having been built-up into far more than she could ever hope to be she will be torn apart for the entertainment of the masses in our own electronic version of the colosseum. Her crime was to be everything she was held to be, which as Ken Russell so eloquently observed is a “gutter-snipe”.

And so the cycle is complete. Next!