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A welcome reminder - and we need them unfortunately as to why the BBC is not a force for good in Scotland or the UK as a whole

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24777559.bbc-question-time-now-platforming-pure-simple-racism/

#BBC #ScottishIndependence #NartionalBroadcaster #Bias
Screen capture from the article. The text reads This one programme has done more than any other to bring far-right politics into the political mainstream, with its heavy bias to right-wing guests and local audiences seemingly stuffed with Reform UK and Conservative supporters. This is a programme which once infamously broadcast an episode from the predominantly working-class and independence-supporting Scottish city of Dundee – yet managed to have an audience consisting mainly of middle-class Conservative supporters with posh English accents. Another episode devoted to a discussion of Brexit had an audience composed entirely of Leave voters. Last night's episode was no exception to the show's penchant for platforming racism. A woman who looked as though she could have been a close friend of Hyacinth Bucket from Keeping Up Appearances expressed her view that only Reform UK could control immigration – adding that she "didn't believe" in any asylum and that she felt "very sorry for the little towns, little villages that these people have been put where people have lived all their lives”. Because the mild inconvenience to a racist of seeing brown-skinned people on the streets of their town and – shock horror – hearing them “speak foreign” is orders of magnitude worse than having to flee your country because of war, or because an authoritarian regime might imprison, torture, or even kill you due to your political beliefs, your ethnicity, or your sexuality.

BBC Question Time is now platforming pure and simple racism

LAST night we were treated to yet another episode of the BBC's long running show An Audience with Nigel Farage, AKA Normalising the Far Right with…
Wee Ginger Dug (The National)
#bbc #bias #scottishindependence #nartionalbroadcaster

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