Dark day in malice… dial ‘N’ for Nerds as BBC censors Dylan’s anti-racism anthem

Dylan’s Hurricane is a song which, while factually a bit lacking, took on pomp, cruelty, American society, iniquity, the judiciary, justice, social conditions – and yes, RACISM

I have been a professional writer all my working life – and one of the greatest writers today still has to be Bob Dylan, a chronicler of the iniquities of the world, the human condition, unfairness, cruelty, love and heartbreak …his is a heady mixture of intelligence, awareness, wit and understanding.

When I became an editor I knew that I could LEGALLY publish something r*cist for instance, only if I identified the r*cist, quoted him or her correctly with a particular intention.

And the general intention has to be to condemn and expose the r*cist views expressed…

Nobody should ever be r*cist.

Why should you be, what’s the purpose?

Dylan’s Hurricane is a song, which, while factually a bit lacking, took on pomp, cruelty, American society, iniquity, the judiciary, justice, social conditions – and yes, RACISM.

Now, almost five decades later, that supposedly great bastion of equality and caring in the UK, the BBC (Radio 6 in particular), has edited out that other word which now must be spelt with hieroglyphics to avoid offending the internet spiders and bots and the awakened idiots of our cyber world.

That word is n*gg*r (do you recognise it?)

Here, Leigh, takes a look at the reaction to the BBC’s edit of an anthem and also takes a bit of a ribald look at just how simple it is to offend spiders and bots and of course the shallow world of the woke whinger:

“I often make a particular joke about racism which, I suppose, could be seen as offensive by those over-educated nerdy BBC knob-twisting producers with body odour and stinky trainers.

Or the whole of Italy might be offended.

Or, even my Italian ex-wife who is, dare I say, becoming more Italian the older she gets (Hang on! Hang on! I’ve done it again …I gratuitously used the word Italian. Now that’s racist isn’t it? I mentioned a woman too … that’s sexist. I also mentioned that my ex is getting on in years .. surely that’s ageist? Oops, I said publicly that she is my ex, so that’s against data protection – and I indicate she is becoming a bit of a Big-a Fat-a Mama … now that’s not only fat-ist, it’s racist, misogynistic, anti-feminist, anti granny and anti ex-wife. And just plain churlish!)

Myself, I’m very English, mainly because I come from English-land – and let’s face it, I am a bit of a gobby, beer swilling oaf! (Oops can I say that? Isn’t that Me-ist? Surely, I can’t describe myself in those terms! I might offend me! Oh, and all the other English people who are just like me – and that’s just the beer-swilling, tattooed, baseball cap-wearing women!)

Oh no!

A few years ago I was eeking a living – (Hang on? Eeking? Could that be derogetory against frightened people who scream?)

Anyway, I was eeking a living as a Talking Head on the BBC, both regionally and nationally.

Then something happened.

We ended up talking about farmers. I felt qualified to chat as I live in the countryside and number many farmers among my drinking colleagues and acquaintances in the Midlands Village of the Damned. (It was described as that by TitBits magazine in the early 1990s because of various tragic incidents culminating in the suicide of the local vicar.

I got the blame because I was the only hack in the village! Well that has to be hack-ist doesn’t it?)

And this is what I said on the BBC. And it was a joke… “Well Jim, it might not be life as we know it but almost all the farmers I know live in mansions, drive 4x4s to the stables where they take their horses for a trot round their acres of land!”

That was that then.

Had to go broadcasting midnight in New York and on AirTV and Netflix – oh no, how life let me down!

So, let’s return to those over-educated nerdy BBC knob-twisting producers with body odour and stinky trainers.

They censored all round good egg Bob Dylan!

Hurricane is about the boxer Rubin Carter, wrongly convicted of murder. It says ‘and for the black folks he was just a crazy n*****’ and this removed when it was broadcast on Tom Robinson’s 6 Music show on April 24.

Is that really how we deal with racism today? Don’t the woke idiots of this world realise that not talking about something, not using the words that identify the problem, doesn’t make the problem go away, it just drives it underground, from people’s minds, hides it away.

This is how propaganda works, hide the truth and get people to think it’s gone, eradicated. Not a problem any more.

But racism is a problem across the world and the BBC should hang its head in shame … not over those body odour and stinky trainer issues.

No.

It is their wokery in their little Wookery Nook world where equality for those who are different is available against a background of middle-class sniffiness, accusations of biased reporting, cover ups over the likes of Savile and Stuart Hall and a complete lack of understanding of what’s important any more.

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