So you can't choose a taxi driver now...

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A BBC presenter sacked for racism because she didn't want an asian taxi driver to pick up her daughter

if she didn't want a male driver/complete stranger to pick up a 14 year girl would she have been sacked for sexism?

[The Shaggy D.A.]

If it wasn't a BBC presenter, it wouldn't have made the "news" ( I used that term very loosely). The BBC would have the tabloids hounding them if they hadn't dismissed her.

Here's the Sun article :-

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1915463.ece
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[Feasty]

I disagree, I don't think it was a reasonable request and she shouldn't have done this at all as it points towards racism, especially as she is in the public eye too! However I'm not saying she intended to be racist be doing this...

If the 14hr old girl has issues with Asian taxi drivers or been traumatised having 'been near' them previously then it is the responsibility of her mother to find an alternate means of transport that solves this and not expect other people to cater for her daughter, maybe get a friend to help out or something.
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[Carl_steveo]

I think its a legitimate request, had she rang up and said "don't send a (derogatory term) driver" etc etc then yes that would be wrong. I can't see the problem here other than just another reason to give the bbc a bad name.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[UnknownStuntm...]

I agree with most of the posters here. If you want to state what type of person you'd like to pick up your 14 year old child, so be it. She wasn't rude or offensive so they had no grounds to be offended really.

Why were they recording the call though? I would bet money that they never told her they were recording the call....

Just goes to underline my deep mistrust of taxi drivers.

[Carl_steveo]

Wow i posted in here and my karma went from white to red.
Anyway i totally agree it's a service you pay for so you should be able to specify and she wasn't derogatory in anyway. My mam is a taxi driver and she agrees because people ask all the time for certain drivers and a lot of women ask for a female driver aswell and that isn't seen as sexist.

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[flossi46]

seems to me that to much is put down to racism these days, my 15yr old has just been in trouble at school for saying Jambo (hello or good morning in african, cant remember which), to a teacher, who he didnt know, turns out the teacher is french and took it as highly offensive and racist.
I have now got to go and grovel to this .....teacher so as it won't go on his school record!
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[Fnatic]

How does it point towards racism?

Surely a Caucasian man can be Sikh and wear a turban.

The fact she said not to send an Asian was wrong but the thing about the turban is perfectly feasible in my opinion.

She even explained why she didn't want a man wearing a turban to.

[colin1]

Whether you think she should be allowed to specify the type of taxi driver or not, saying she didnt want an asian driver is racist.

Customers may frequently make preferences of this type, and probably a lot of the time the customer is always right so people just do what the customer asks.

However asking for a non-asian taxi driver is likely to cause problems, as so many are asian, and if you are a presenter for the BBC, you really are leaving yourself wide open for attack.

Discrimination on grounds of race is only allowed in the other direction. Where it is seen as 'positive'.
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[MinhDinh]

well if the driver can't do his job because of his race then so be it, but the fact is, i am sure he could have done it. i mean the presenter should try finding a cab in new york. from the film/source 'men in black' it looks like they are all asian
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[carvell]

Is the OP seriously outraged that you can't say "don't send an Asian taxi driver" anymore?!

Of course you can't say that, because it's racist!
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[Alex-RS]

The word racist is used at every opportunity these days, this wasn't racist, nowhere even near being racist. This whole country is so wrapped up in political correctness and people acting how they think they're 'supposed' to act. Fuck that, the people who don't speak up are the ones who should be suffering.

[MinhDinh]

well if he's not good enough to drive her child then perhaps he and other asians should not pay for their tv license which helps pay he wages or should i say previous salary.
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[carvell]

[trevoriv]

If the woman had said dont send me one of them spear throwing drivers then thats racist.

What if she had said dont send me a white taxi driver or do you have any women taxi drivers as i dont want a male driver, is that still racist or sexist?
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[carvell]

Of course saying "don't send a white taxi driver" is racist, yes!

If there was a sign on the door of a pub saying "no asians" - you wouldn't class that as racist then?
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[Alex-RS]

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[lozzypop1]

She actually said:

"An Englishman would be great but a woman would be better."

and then she says:

"If it was me I wouldn't care if it had 2 heads, but because it's my 14 year old little girl we're talking about..."

Hardly racist.
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[Nufkamp]

Public eye my arse. Nobody outside of the Bristol area has probably ever heard of the woman, this is just a bit of self-flagellation by the Beeb.
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