This just shows you just how institutionalised sectarianism is in Scotland that it’s now deemed ‘normal’ to joke about the Catholic clearances by John Knox.
Scottish football has suffered for decades with a sectarian problem bolstered with it being engrained in our society.
And this latest offering from the BBC either doesn’t help the situation or compounds it. Have a watch.
Now, I’m not daft. And I’m also not a snowflake that gets offended by everything I see and read.
Regular readers know I generally more or less take the p*ss out of a certain teams’ fans for their views on this subject and others, but it is widely disconcerting that a topic like ‘Catholic clearances’ is openly mocked on a major broadcaster at a time when we are all being forced to mourn a monarch that many have absolutely no interest in mourning.
And the comments didn’t go down too well with the Celtic support and others:
Racists gonna be racists.
— Mattaboy 🇺🇦 (@mattwoose) September 11, 2022
Disgusting but not surprising
— CrazyBaresi🍀🏴 🇻🇦 クレイジーベアシ (@BaresiCrazy) September 11, 2022
BBC are now an absolute disgrace as a news broadcaster, and as the propaganda tool of this Tory government, can virtually say anything they want with impunity.
— James Mchutchieson (@JamesMchutchie2) September 11, 2022
When you think it couldn’t get any better, they only go and top it off with derogatory comments towards Catholics. 🫠
The British Monarchy has no place is the modern world!
— AG🍀 (@_AG1888) September 11, 2022
And they laugh about it!! This is what Catholics have always had to accept from the British media. Especially in Scotland and the North of Ireland. https://t.co/LWiqDmzBIk
— Ua Rathghaille 🇮🇪 (@OSLOforEveryone) September 12, 2022
Can you imagine if it was “there’s a life size statue of Adolf Hitler there too, the all great Austrian Jew reformer, of course made famous for clearing the Jews out of Europe, hahahahaha” https://t.co/jweF7xmx7P
— 2phoneCCV (@2phoneCCV) September 11, 2022
Racism and bigotry alive at well in the uk @BBCNews disgraceful 😡 https://t.co/u3e4XgjEAm
— Celtic🍀Glasgow🍀💚🍀🏴🇪🇺 (@lesley27171) September 12, 2022
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