And another Silverback shows his ass (in which I employ a lot of swears)
Jesus Effing Christ.
I thought I’d manage to distance myself from Silverback assholes who talk complete bollocks. Tank you, David Starkey, for proving me wrong. Proof positive that you can get a job as a pundit by being a Silverback, and still come off as a total fucking racist eejit. Actually, there are other words that come to mind, but I am trying to retrain myself to avoid my knee-jerk reaction of using gendered adjectives as insults.
I hope to hell that this little performance removes any chance of his getting an OBE ever. Because … well … Jinty Nelson vs. David Starky? like going to Zaire and replacing Ali or Frazier with Homer Simpson.
and by the way? It is exactly this kind of shit I was grousing about in my last post. I’ll take a side of clueless asshole with my unchecked privilege, please.
ETA: Belle points out that actual Silverbacks are pretty damned cool. They are indeed. And nothing like the human sort. But I can’t think of another good word for that particular group…
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Ugh. Great.
Tragically, he is already a CBE so you’ll have to hope he never gets a peerage.
That is fairly horrifying. I had hoped UK TV was proof against that sort of thing. On behalf of my nation I’d like to apologise for David Starkey, just generally; he should not have been allowed to get this way.
Yuck. But let’s be fair. Silverback gorillas are pretty cool, and if they could talk, would NEVER spout such $hit. Can we just call Starkey a particularly vile kind of glossy prig (Privileged, Racist, Ignorant Goober)? I do like gorillas, and would hate to use a term that implies they would stoop this low.
Weirdly, I think I said that on Fb, but not here. But yes, Actual Silverbacks are cool.