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"Was Jade being racist towards Shilpa, in the BB house?"

If any of you have been watching this years Big Brother, please let me know how you feel about what has happened inside. I feel that whilst Jade was in the BB house, she constantly bullied Shilpa who is from India. Some though it was an act of racism and others, like myself, feel it is just bullying. I feel that Jade and her fellow 'followers' (Danielle & Jo)constantly ganged up on Shilpa. There were several occasions where Shilpa was told that she should 'go back home' and earnt the nickname 'Shilpa popadom', which in fact, could be called racist. HoweverI thought that Jade learnt her lesson when she dispatched from the BB house. No one was there to applaud her and she was even shown videos, with Tony Blair, complaining about her actions on live TV. She caused nothing but chaos inside the house. The carphone warehouse has cancelled its sponsorship with BB because of her and Jade has had a lot of explaining to do on BB extras. I watched BB's Little Brother this morning, where they interviewed Jade and had people calling in to ask her questions. An Indian woman phoned, and asked a really hard question. Not long after Jade was in tears. She did say that she would like the chance to say sorry to Shilpa when she leaves the BB house, but until this happens Jade will still be in my bad books. I actually think Shilpa is rather attractive lol. (just thought I would add that little comment at the end)

I dont think Jade did anything wrong.

It was all taken to far, talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Bullying, yes.
Racist. No. I doubt she'd even understand what that means.

Had enough of Shilpa in the media (even now, with her visiting the house of commons)? Yes.

Care about what Jade does next? No. But if I were a TV exec looking to make money, I'd send her to India to learn about the culture. A bit like a dumb Micheal Palin.

She isnt in the media just for the racism thing, she is in there because she won BB, one of the biggest reality tv shows in the world. Every person to win BB is always in the media for quite some time

Garin wrote:
> I like how racism has been redefined. Any negative comment
> towards a person of another race/ethnicity is now automatically
> racism.

I like how people like to sideline racism by making that excuse. Any comment, negative or otherwise, that preys on a racial stereotype or demeans or has it's point carried across from its use of race is racism.

It's not a moot point really.Those not in the position to understand or experience racism will see it as bullying but those who do will know its racism.

"Well since we're off-air we can say any damn thing we like - well hell: I'm the lord Jesus Christ!"

"Well Tom, I just plain don't like black people"

"Uuuuh... guys, we're still on in Boston"

biglime wrote:
> It's not a moot point really.Those not in the position to
> understand or experience racism will see it as bullying but
> those who do will know its racism.

A well constructed argument if ever there was one.

I thought it was a mixture of jealousy and xenophobia.
Also, I think Jade was under pressure to "kick something off".
Also, the recent wave of humour (mainly Little Britain: I'm thinking of Majorie Doors patronizing the indian woman and the Tory woman puking at foreigners etc), I think stupid people misunderstand what is actually supposed to be funny about those sketches.