Danny Baker says he has been 'fired' over royal baby chimp tweet

Danny is 61 and he’s been in the media for a long time. I don’t believe he’s that naive.

He's now being investigated by the police.Police state anyone?

The baby is white.At least in all the photos I've seen he is.

There are many different reasons he thought posting it was funny. It could have been with racist intent, it could have been because he thought the baby looked ugly (not nice but not racist), it could be him playing on the idea of a mixup in there being a mixup in the hospital ... without actually being mind readers we don’t know.

If he’d said something along the lines of “Prince William and Megan Markle leave hospital with their quadroon n***** abomination” then yeh I think racism is a safe bet, but not here.

*Prince Harry

Which is an argiment that doea not make sense. Imagine someone saying it was the first time they ever robbed a bank so theu couldn't possibly be guilty of being a thief based on past record. Ridiculous!

Nah. Black people have been portrayed as chimps and monkeys since jim crow and blackface times. He knew exactly what he was doing. Look at advertising and the fashion industry, it is disgusting!. Everyone can see it yet some people choose to ignore it because it does not affect you directly and, in my opinion, that is the same as supporting racism.

Comparison doesn't hold up - you can't really rob a bank by accident... but you can offend someone by accident.

When you offend someone by accident you apologise and then traditionally you both move on with your lives... but that doesn't seem to work anymore and it appears you've got to be hounded out of your job and have the police set on you.

Frankly, you haven’t a clue WHY he did it. How exactly do you KNOW he had any racist intent with this? Can you tell me which model of crystal ball/brand of tea leaves you are using to divine that with such certainty his intent. People have also referred to children as monkeys since year dot. Could his statement have been meant with racist intent? Possibly, but neither of us actually has evidence this is what was meant.

The baby is white.At least in all the photos I've seen he is.

"intent" has nothing to do with racial discrimination law.! It is irrelevant what he intended. The law is well aware that every racist ,when things get hot, would just simply say they never intended to behave in a racist way. That argument is irrelevant.

And his precise level of whiteness matters because....?

Perhaps every baby needs checking against a colour chart to be assigned to their correct position in life and the level of acceptibility for allow racist jokes to be told about them?

And his precise level of whiteness matters because....?

Perhaps every baby needs checking against a colour chart to be assigned to their correct position in life and the level of acceptibility for allow racist jokes to be told about them?

Ngl...I’m black and I didn’t understand what was offensive until I read the whole news article.
Because Meghan is mixed race and Harry is white so the picture didn’t even add up to me.
I do think he should have been sacked though, because it was so stupid. Being investigated over it however? That’s pointless, what are they even looking for? His life is ruined already.

That's interesting that you didn't see it as offensive until the whole media circus got going. I agree it was stupid of him but I don't think you should get sacked for being stupid or I'm going back to a half empty staffroom tomorrow

I say sacked because the BBC couldn’t have dealt with it any other way. Everyone was so mad over the issue...

When you offend someone by accident you apologise and then traditionally you both move on with your lives... but that doesn't seem to work anymore and it appears you've got to be hounded out of your job and have the police set on you.

This is exactly right. I don't know when it was when we became so intolerant of other people's shortcomings and mistakes that the moment someone makes a step out-of-line there's immediately a baying mob with pitchforks and torches demanding that he be burnt at the stake. It's very worrying.

Yeah, to see the BBC act the way you describe and assume it as their ethos and core values. Make a mistake and you're out without a squeak. Worrying indeed, particularly for employees outside the sphere of protected and promoted sociological groups. Double worrying for them, actually.

It so hysterical and social-media led. How many people now have been hung out to dry because of one mistake; a mistake which in previous years could have been easily forgiven for a sincere and fast public apology to the wounded party.