Another day another Top Gear scandal for Jeremy Clarkson
Viewers vented their frustration after the special saw Clarkson mocking the dress of Indian dignitaries, driving around slums in a Jaguar fitted with a toilet and making repeated jokes about the country’s trains, food, history and conditions.
Clarkson boasted the specially modified toilet-car was “perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots”, the Daily Mail reported.
Viewers slammed the show on Twitter branding Clarkson a “Nazi” and describing the programme as “casual racism”.
“Whats wrong with the BBC that they think casual racist stereotyping is acceptable on top gear?” Twitter user Owen Hathway wrote.
This is not the first time Top Gear has been embroiled in a racism row with comments made during an earlier Mexican special resulting in an apology by the BBC to the UK’s Mexican ambassador.
Co-presenter Richard Hammond made the insulting comment that a Mexican sports car reflected the “lazy, feckless and flatulent” national characteristics of its country of origin while James May described Mexican food as "sick with cheese on it".
Clarkson directly insulted the ambassador, predicting that they would not get any complaints because "at the Mexican embassy, the ambassador is going to be sitting there with a remote control, snoring."
The outraged ambassador - Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza - wrote to the BBC branding the comments “vulgar”, “inexcusable” and said they were “xenophobic” designed to “stir bigoted feelings against the Mexican people” resulting in a formal apology from the broadcaster.
It’s been a hard year for Clarkson with the host receiving 21,000 complaints for his comment that striking public sector workers 'should be shot' while their families watched.
Source : http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au
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