I've just noticed that my entry in the caption competition, in the magazine part of the news section on the BBC web site, has been deleted for being racist or offensive.
The caption was -"The Norfolk chapter of the KKK are looking for a new place to meet after accidentally burning down the village hall"
This may well not be funny but offensive to anyone other than possibly the klan?
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Oh No! I've been moderated by the BBC
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Posted 8 years ago #
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I was moderated last year for something even more innocent. I think sometimes they look for offense that isn't there.
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A nice display of moderate behaviour.
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yeah bloody KFC
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It might be that the mention of a burned down village hall associated with a nominated perpetrator was deemed inadvisable in light of the death of an elderly coule whose [village] home was burned down in a revenge attack on the elderly lady's motorised permabulator.
Or perhaps not. Auntie has developed a real tin ear for news and facts, lately.
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Ever the optimist, we should not exclude the possibility that the noble East Anglian gentlefolk have taken exception to the suggestion that the KKK could set up a Norfolk chapter, and taken your caption as a deeply offensive racial slur on the stout yeomen of the fens.
"We may all be web-fingered inbred fuckwits, but we resent any suggestion that we are bigoted web-fingered inbred fuckwits" said a spokessheep.
Sadly, though, since we live in the opposite of a meritocracy, I fear a darker explanation.
There is an old urdu expression 'Shaitan ka na'am lo, shaitan hazir' which translates as 'speak of the devil and he shall appear'.
Perhaps some numbnuts has taken this to heart, and assumed that the very mention of the KKK (even as a subject of ridicule) was meant as an invocation for them to rise again, and that your caption therefore promoted offensive Klanish tendencies.If so, then, just like the KKK themselves, said numbnuts is more deserving of our pity than our hatred.
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