On her BBC Radio London show last night at 51.20 Jo Good calls the late singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu "an aborigine".
This woman boasts of growing up in Australia but again uses this offensive term.
Her ignorance is crushing.
Further to the above, I listened to more of Jo Good's show last night and it got worse. During Chewing the Fat (a discussion segment) journalist, radio & podcast producer Paul Russell talks about the Gurrumul track and describes the artist as aboriginal, which is an acceptable term. However, he later shows his ignorance is on par with Jo Good's, saying he loves the music even though "you have no idea what he's talking about because it's all in aborigine", "a seven-minute track entirely in aborigine".
(BBC Sounds 1:17:50)
It's reasonable that he'd not know the specific language (there are many, many Australian Indigenous languages) but it is astonishing that someone in his profession is unaware of the offensive term. He must imagine that such a vast continent has only one generic non-English lingo. It's as ignorant as saying "I don't speak African".
Middle-aged Paul's chosen discussion topic is "Ooohh-you-have-to-be-so-careful-what-you-say-to-young-women-nowadays". Paul revealed that he was told "sweetly" by a 24 year old woman he was working with that "it's not really right" to call her sweetheart, which he had done habitually. He was very lucky that she told him she believed he didn't mean it in the way the another "more aggressive" colleague did. I mean WTF? It's a work place, he was lucky she didn't tell the patronising prick to fuck right off and go to HR when he said it the third time.
Old hippy dolly bird (as she calls herself) Jo Good thought it was "a real shame" Paul couldn't say that any more, after all she knows him and he's not predator. This selfish comment ignores the power balance in play in a work place between a young woman and an old bloke. She must believe that a man not being predatory towards one woman means he's not towards others.
Another contributor (Sally Winsdor, journalist, publicist and broadcaster) and said she has realised that "...young women now... are so switched on to what's offensive and not offensive, what's acceptable and not acceptable...from the age of 11, 12 onwards..." and breaks it to Paul that "it is becoming offensive". I thought she was saying that as if it's a good thing - until she too said it's such a shame and she didn't know how to stop it.
She trotted out the old cliche that she likes the bin-man saying "sweetheart" to her. Not quite the same if it's a boss who's old enough to be your dad saying the same thing. Jo repeated her opinion that it's a shame.
Seriously, this lot should fuck off to GB news
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I find it hard to watch his shows now.
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