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Oct. 23, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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This Week in Stupid (23⧸10⧸2016)
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Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Stupid for the 23rd of October 2016.
So to start with I have a follow-up from the Cult of Diversity at the BBC video I did on the 5th of October.
I'll leave a link in the description if you haven't seen it, but basically the BBC has implemented mandatory diversity policies, which means discriminating for and against people on the basis of their race, their gender and their sexuality, and all of the other identity politics categories that are just such horseshit.
And this week they have claimed another victim.
BBC Autumn Watch presenter sidelined because Martin Hughes Games, the wildlife presenter, is to be sidelined from the BBC's much-loved nature shows to make way for someone less white and middle class, he has suggested.
Hughes Games, who joined The Watches in 2009, said Autumn Watch and Spring Watch needed a more diverse team to suit the agenda of modern television as he claims he's been shifted from the main lineup.
The broadcaster said he is genuinely sad and upset to have learned his anchoring services may no longer be required just three weeks after the birth of his son.
Just like with John Holmes, we have another example of the BBC racially discriminating against their own employees.
In my opinion, that's bad enough, but what I find makes this even worse, and what I find really unconscionable about the whole thing is the way that this cult of diversity even has the people it's victimising apologising for it.
Whatever I may think, it's crucially important that high-profile shows like The Watches reflect diversity, he said.
Chris Michaela and I are all white and middle class, so a more diverse team must present some of the films that go out.
It's hard for me because it's my living, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought, no, that's the right decision.
It has to be like that.
God, you can really feel the cognitive dissonance coming through, can't you?
He's like, hmm, I've just been screwed.
This may well be my livelihood that's being taken away, but it is for the greater good.
It is for diversity.
And to be fair, I was born as a fucking white man!
So really, I brought this on myself, and it's totally acceptable for them to do this to me.
So Hughes Games surprised fans in September by tweeting that, the BBC Commissioner Tom McDonald has decided that my services are no longer required on Spring Watch.
Sad, but it's been brilliant, thank you.
And this minor amount of publicity appears to have put the BBC on the back foot.
The next day, the BBC issued a statement denying it, saying, it is simply not true that Martin's services are no longer required on The Watches.
As well as being contracted for Autumn Watch, we have begun conversations with Martin about an evolution of his role for Winter Watch and beyond.
And the BBC insisted any future decisions about Hugh Games' role would be nothing to do with diversity, confirming he is due to take full part in the new series of Autumn Watch as planned before negotiating future shows.
Conversations about his role are ongoing.
I'm going to be straight with you, BBC.
I don't fucking believe you.
I think you're liars.
I think you know you did this for diversity, and I think you know that there is going to be a backlash about this, especially if you fire someone over it, as you saw with John Holmes.
And I think you know all this, and so what you've done is created an obscure, meaningless job for this guy to go into, because firing him just sends just the wrong message.
I think this is why Hughes Games has now claimed that he has been officially sidelined, telling Radio Times, it's going to be completely different for me, and of course I will desperately miss Michaela and Chris.
In my heart of hearts, I think we have a wonderful relationship that works on screen, but I do see what Tom McDonald needs to try now, because he has pressure from above, and he needs to do something with you, and he can't just fire you for being white.
And this is why I think that this has just been a complete fucking bungle from the BBC.
He says, I won't be going.
I will still be a presence there, but we've yet to quite work out how that will be.
We'll see how it evolves.
They don't know.
And I think this is what's happened.
Someone from the diversity department has gone to Tom McDonald and said, Tom, you have too many white people on your show.
You need some diversity on this show.
And Tom's gone, okay, well, I'll have to fire someone from this show.
And then once he's told that person, that person has gone public and said, I'm going to be fired because I'm not dark enough.
And Tom's gone, shit, that looks really bad, doesn't it?
Okay, well, no, no, we're just going to shuffle things around.
We're going to move you behind the camera and we're going to find somewhere for you to go.
And I mean, you're still going to have a job.
I know you've got a young son to support you.
You'll still have a job, it's just, you're too pasty to be on the camera.
We need.
We need darker meat in front of that camera.
You have to understand.
You just, if you were born a Negro, it'd be okay, but you weren't.
And so, you know how it is.
I mean, I don't want to be doing this, but you know what the boys in the diversity department say.
And, you know, we all do need diversity, don't we?
Hmm?
Hmm?
Of course we do.
Now be quiet and just go over here.
This is going to become a regular and persistent feature of the BBC, where they will be taking your money as a license-paying citizen and using it to discriminate against white people.
This is why at the beginning of October, I and many other people emailed the BBC, and this is the response that we got.
Dear Mr. Benjamin, thanks for getting in touch about the BBC's diversity and inclusion strategy.
Due to the amount of correspondence we've received, we haven't been able to respond to every single point that's been made, mainly because many of the complaints have resulted from online lobbying.
You're welcome.
Having said that, we're sorry to learn of your concerns surrounding the BBC's diversity and inclusion strategy.
We are tasked by our new Royal Charter to ensure that our output reflects the diverse communities of the whole of the UK, accurately and authentically, with specific emphasis on reflecting underrepresented communities, cultures and languages, and all socio-economic backgrounds.
As the Director General Tony Hall explained, the BBC has a breadth and scale that is unique in the UK's media.
And that means what we do has real impact.
So I want us to make sure we are leading by example, working with and learning from others in the industry and using our influence to bring about real change.
Maybe if your real change wasn't racial discrimination, you wouldn't be getting complaints.
That's all I'm saying.
Some people have questioned why some of our diversity targets are higher than the national average.
As with regard to our BAME targeted 15%, this is higher than the 12.9% national average because the BBC has major hubs in large metropolitan areas such as London, Birmingham and Glasgow for example.
That's not an excuse.
That's not a reason.
You wanted targets that fit the national average.
You have gone above this.
Saying, well, we're in places where there's a lot of dark people.
So obviously we had to go higher.
It's not a fucking answer, is it?
And then they say, oh, it also reflects the estimated population in the UK by 2020.
I don't care.
We're not there yet.
You can make that in 2020, can't you?
For fuck's sake, it's like you're not even listening to the things you're saying to people.
On our target for LGBT, it's worth noting that not everyone discloses their sexuality.
Yes, exactly.
This is why it's a pointless thing to have a fucking target for someone's sexuality.
And it's not like that is normally a thing that's represented on Autumn Watch anyway, is it?
There will always be a debate on numbers, but at the end of the day, the BBC's new charter requires that we reflect the nation we serve.
You can do that by hiring the best person for the job, which is what the people in the nation want.
And believe it or not, what the ethnic minorities in the nation can also achieve.
We agree with that and make no apology for setting demanding targets.
Just like many other organisations, to ensure we make progress.
I'm not interested in what you consider to be progress.
I'm interested in the fact that you are racially discriminating.
And I don't care how many of the other kids are doing it.
If they're all jumping off a bridge, are you going to jump off too?
No, you're meant to set an example, as you fucking said.
And that example is apparently, I just can't understand how many times I have to say racial discrimination in the context of talking about the BBC's policies.
Why?
Why?
Why don't you just hire someone based on what they're good at?
We trust that this explains the BBC's point of view here.
Of course it does.
We know what your fucking point of view is.
Nevertheless, please be assured that we've recorded your views and we've made them known to the BBC's Diversity and Inclusion Department and other senior figures within the corporation for their noting.
So I don't know about you, but I'm not prepared to let them simply brush me off with the stock line about why they're doing this.
We know why they're doing it and why they're doing it is the problem.
So I have gone and made another complaint.
This is the general complaints process and I and the other people who have complained have been through stage one.
We are now at stage 1B.
Complainants who are unhappy when they have received their first response may ask for a further reply.
And of course we are going to have to jump through these hoops.
So for all of the people who complained the first time, and I know literally thousands of them, we are all now going to have to send in our second complaint.
I know, I know, it's a pain, but you didn't think they were just going to roll over, did you?
Come on, we've got to take this as far as we can take this.
We have to push back and we have to do something.
So on the email that you received back from the BBC Complaints Department, you'll see there is a case number, which is 4036227 for me, but you'll doubtless have a different one.
Follow the link in the description to the BBC Complaints Department and you'll have to place another complaint.
Put in what is your reason for contacting us on this issue as unhappy with previous response and then put the seven digit number in the complaint case reference number box.
On the subject of your complaint I've put racial biases policy at the BBC and here is my complaint in full.
As with before, screenshot your complaint before sending it and then send it off and email these screenshots to the Daily Mail, which is tips at dailymail.com.
They haven't done anything with this yet, but who knows, maybe if we complain enough, they will.
Like I said before, I have no idea what's going to happen with this, but as Hannibal said, we are either going to find a way or we are going to make one.
So get emailing chaps.
There is no excuse, not to spend 10 minutes to send them another message in reply because this is their procedure and we have to follow it.
So let's have a nice change of subject.
Let's talk about the Calais jungle migrants who have been let into the UK.
Specifically, those poor innocent kids who just need your help.
What they need is a champagne socialist to guilt-trip the rest of the white middle class into just letting them in without thinking about anything but what's being said or looking at anything that might approach an objective measure of reality.
Lily Allen is a great start because she cried because she saw kids wandering around the Calais jungle in squalor.
What sort of example is that?
What sort indeed, Lily?
I mean god you are just so on point.
She says, when you see the rage and fury from politicians and newspapers about whether the child refugees we're allowing in are actually children, it makes you proud we're a Christian nation.
Because we all remember the Sermon of Jesus in which he said, Let the suffering children come, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these, but not him.
He's 19 if he's a day.
Look at his stubble, he can clear off and get crucified by the Romans.
She says it's about time we all learn to act properly towards anyone in need.
If we see someone having a heart attack, it's important to act quickly and check they're not feigning it as a ruse to get free biscuits at the Cardiac unit.
If an elderly person falls down the stairs, search their house for any clues that they might be trying to swindle an insurance claim.
Because when you look back at history, at the Huguenots fleeing France, or the Jews escaping Germany?
What the fuck are you on about, Lily?
These are people who have just come because they're economic migrants, you twat.
This map of Islamic immigration into the UK is completely unrelated to millionaire Lily Allen's stunning and brave assertion that we need to take in basically an unlimited number of Muslim refugees.
And I imagine it's completely unrelated to the fact that she lives in Gloucestershire.
Circled here on the map with, as you can see, virtually no Islamic immigration.
But, I mean, coincidences.
Am I right?
I mean, how many, again, I keep asking this of celebrities.
How many refugees are you putting up?
I mean, you're so brave to suggest that we should take them into the country.
How brave are you in reality?
The answer is, of course, fucking zero.
Just like every other do-gooder celebrity who forgets that their one skill set is being a paid dancing monkey.
And, unbelievably, performing because someone puts a few pennies in your cup does not make you informed on the issues that you're talking about.
But I know, I know, I'm being a disgusting right-wing Islamophobic racist, just like everyone else.
I mean, look at these poor kids.
Just because he looks like he's on the wrong side of 40 doesn't mean we shouldn't accept that he is in fact a 14-year-old.
I mean, just look at this little cherub with the five o'clock shadow.
How could you refuse to let that child into your country?
And what about this little darling with the remarkably well-kempt hair?
I mean, you're not going to let him starve on the streets, are you?
He's probably an orphan.
Now, if you're a left-wing progressive like me, and you're not really the mothering sort, you're probably thinking, is it too late to abort these children?
And the answer is, yes.
But don't worry, you can always direct your ire at the right-wing conservatives, who, believe it or not, don't think these are children at all.
The Home Office has no way of verifying the age of child refugees being brought into the UK, it has emerged, amid concerns that adults are posing as minors to gain access to Britain.
My god, the racists are accusing these poor children of being liars as well.
Is there no debt to their depravity?
14 teenagers on Monday arrived in the UK from Calais as a fast-track system was launched to transfer youngsters from the jungle camp before it was demolished.
The Home Office had insisted it had verified all the ages of the refugees, and all of them who were brought into the UK were between 14 and 17.
This was presumably done on the honour system by simply asking them and accepting the first answer they gave.
Home Office documents show that if a refugee does not have a birth certificate, a Home Office screening officer can certify them as a child based on their physical appearance or demeanour.
The document states that refugees should be treated as if an adult, if their physical appearance and demeanour very strongly suggest they're significantly over 18 years of age, which, let's be honest, all of those previous examples do.
However, it does say that all other applicants should be afforded the benefit of the doubt and treated as children.
What?
A guide for the Home Office says all available sources of relevant information and evidence should be considered, since no single assessment technique or combination of techniques is likely to determine the applicant's age with precision, apart from the tooth scanning that all of the evil conservative nationalist scum want to do.
And this is a case in point.
David Davies, fascist MP from Monmouth, said, these don't look like children to me.
I hope British hospitality is not being abused.
He added, these young men don't look like minors to me.
They are hulking teenagers who look older than 18.
I'm all for helping genuine children, but the well of goodwill is being rapidly exhausted here.
I'm also curious as to that there are no young women.
I would have thought they would be much more vulnerable.
I worry that once again, British hospitality is being abused.
Listen, Adolph, these men are fleeing from ISIS.
Yes, they may well have left their wives and young children back in Syria, the hands of ISIS, I guess, but that doesn't mean that these poor children don't deserve our love and compassion and respect.
They say, these vulnerable children, aged between 14 and 17, were transferred to the UK under the care of Home Office staff, with the support of volunteers from specialist non-governmental organisations and charities.
They will join their families in the UK as quickly as possible over the coming days.
Well, thank God.
Because I was concerned.
I was worried that these poor darling children weren't going to get the help that they so clearly needed.
Wait, what's this?
Not one child from most vulnerable group in Calais jungle brought to the UK?
What, are you saying that these are Syrian men who have somehow stolen the places of the actual vulnerable children and been let in?
And are you suggesting that people from the Home Office are so fucking retarded that they honestly didn't think to refuse any of them and just let them in?
Not a single child classed among the most vulnerable group in the Calais jungle has been brought into Britain by the Home Office.
It has emerged, despite children, who appear to be in their 30s, being among the first chosen to cross the channel.
My god, that is exactly what you're saying.
You are just such racists.
Five months on and with the jungle about to be bulldozed, none of the 200-plus children who fall into the category of being kids have been brought to the UK.
The youngest of them is aged 8.
But thank fucking god, there are some highly responsible Syrian refugee men who have turned up to steal their positions instead.
I mean, that's just as good, let's be honest.
So on the plus side, at least everything's just been hunky-dory since these children arrived in the UK.
I mean, I bet everything's going great with their foster families, right?
Foster mother tells of horror when she discovers the 12-year-old Afghan refugee orphan she cared for was a 21-year-old jihadi.
My god.
I swear they must go back to the Middle East and just be like, you guys will not believe how fucking stupid the Europeans are.
You just won't believe it.
I will tell you something, like I will recount my story of what happened, and you won't believe there are people on this earth this retarded, this gullible.
You just won't believe it.
So I'm not even gonna bother telling you.
Just go over there and find out for yourself.
So this poor woman opened her heart and her door to a 12-year-old boy who'd fled the horrors of war in Afghanistan after losing his parents, or so she thought, when in reality, not only was the boy in her care, Jamal, almost a decade older than she had been duped into believing, but he also had Taliban and child abuse material on his phone.
How lovely.
And how surprising.
Imagine my surprise when some of them seem to have terrorist sympathies.
I mean, I can't believe it.
I just, I can't believe they would be using the migrant crisis to try and get into Europe.
While in her care, he had shared a room with three children aged between 12 and 14.
She said, it's ridiculous how everyone else could see it, but not the social workers.
Although she could not confirm if he was a terrorist, she was adamant he had spent time in a training camp.
She added that his last words to her were, I'll kill you and I know where your children are.
Jamal has since reportedly been turned down for asylum after being arrested for assault.
But we all know how big a bunch of racists the police are, don't we?
So that's probably not true.
So I'm thinking about doing a little segment called What Fresh Horrors Have Come Out of Islam This Week, where I'll choose the single worst thing that Muslims have been doing in the name of Islam that week and present it for your enjoyment.
However, I can't seem to narrow it down to just one thing.
For example, Muslim woman screams out in pain as she is caned 23 times in Indonesia for standing too close to her boyfriend.
Heart-wrenching images show a screaming young woman flogged in front of a jeering crowd for breaking Islamic laws, as floggings reportedly spike in Indonesian province.
Why is that?
Oh, ASEA is the only province in Indonesia that enforces Sharia law, and people face floggings for a range of offences, including gambling, alcohol, and gay sex.
Honestly, to be fair, flogging is about the best you can really expect on that count, isn't it?
I think these ones might be the moderate progressives that the left wing are always talking about.
She was one of 13 adults to be flogged on Monday at a mosque.
The woman was allegedly caught standing too close to her boyfriend.
I mean, I imagine she got a fair trial and everything.
The six couples were found guilty of breaking Islamic law that bans intimacy, no touching, hugging, and kissing between unmarried people.
One man was even caned for spending time with a member of the opposite sex in a private location, which of course could lead to adultery, duh.
One of the offenders, a 22-year-old pregnant woman, and this is how, this is how much they care, right?
Was not flogged on Monday, but warned the punishment will be enforced after she's given birth.
Because I mean, they don't want to risk the health of the child.
God.
Miss Alita killed over in pain at the end of her lashings as she had to be carried off stage and taken to hospital.
She received harsh floggings for getting too close to a fellow university student who was also whipped because I mean just in case.
You never know what kind of illicit activities they were doing.
I mean they were literally within a few feet of each other.
Whip the pair of them just to be sure.
So just in case there are any feminists watching, are there any objections to this?
Do you have any concerns about this at all?
I mean it's just a woman being flogged for well standing too close to someone.
Is that a problem?
I mean what about this?
I mean does she look like she might need feminism?
Or I mean probably not right?
It says it's nothing to do with you is it?
No I mean that's the culture isn't it?
Seriously can I hear just one objection from a feminist please.
Just just one anything.
I mean I know that man spreading is a big deal.
I know that there is a terrible glass ceiling that's preventing women from getting to the top jobs in Britain except that we have a female queen and prime minister but look this is something that I think actually needs to be talked about which is incidentally why I'm covering it and I think also the reason why you're not covering it.
But I know what you're thinking feminists.
I've never heard of Indonesia.
I couldn't point to it on the map but I'm sure they've been oppressed by the white man.
So I'll choose something just a little bit closer to home.
How about an Islamist school in the UK?
One that taught the pupils the standard Islamic line of gay people should be killed and men are allowed to beat their wives.
I mean is that a problem for you?
Do you have any complaints about any of this?
An Islamist girls boarding school which taught pupils that men could beat women and gay people should be killed is facing closure after a pupil exposed its Sharia inspired rules.
But they're probably not real Sharia are they?
I mean they what would what would Islamists know about Sharia law?
Aliyah Saleem was expelled in front of the entire student body at Jami'yah al-Hadar Girls School in Nottingham in 2006.
She was accused of narcissism for owning a disposable camera and publicly humiliated as part of her punishment.
Which is basically what you should do to girls who own a disposable camera.
Isn't that right, feminists?
I mean, public humiliation for women is just...
Half the course.
It's totally okay.
It's completely within the realm of things that feminists find acceptable and would never complain about.
Isn't that right?
Following her expulsion, Ms. Selim spoke out about her treatment at the school, saying that pupils were taught no geography, no history, art, sport, or music, but were instead subject to extremist views.
Students were taught that the death sentence could be given to gay men, and that Jews and Christians made Allah angry.
To be fair though, they're probably white.
She said she left the school anti-Semitic and unable to live within British society.
But then she probably is a giant fucking racist, right?
I mean, she's what a terrible Islamophobe this girl is.
Two years on, Jamia al-Hadar has been instructed to close its boarding facilities after an offset inspection found there was inadequacies in safeguarding the pupils, which included poorly trained staff and a culture of bullying.
This is what Islamic moral busybodies are like.
Seriously though, and I'm really not joking when I say this, and I think this is something that the liberal middle classes really need to ask themselves: how many times do we have to see this pattern emerge?
Where an Islamic institution is set up, it operates for a period of time, it then gets investigated, the investigators find out that they are teaching Sharia-compliant rules and laws and morals, which go counter to British laws, rules, and morals, and if and that is the best case scenario when they're not outright radicalising the young people who go through there.
Seriously, what are you expecting them to just sit there and go, well, you know what, we're not actually going to teach our religion as it's written in the texts.
We're actually not going to follow through on our traditions that we've held for over a thousand years.
I mean, what the fuck are you expecting?
You expecting them to honestly come over and go, well, you know what?
We're British now, so we're going to be British.
We're going to do things the British liberal way.
Of course they're fucking not.
This isn't an indictment of a regular Muslim, the average Muslim.
This is an indictment of the ideology of Islam.
And it's persistent.
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