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Black presenter on racist TV channel saddened and disappointed to be fired for saying that a racist politician was being racist.

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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I will say the dude joined about the same time the broadcaster was created, so it is reasonable to accept that he didn't know where he was getting into.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, we all knew very early on that gb news was meant to be the fox news of the UK.

If you're joining an organisation that took Andrew Neill off the screen in its first week of broadcasting for being too left wing, and replaced him with Nigel Farage, you have to have had your head firmly in the sand if you don't realise they're right wing nut jobs.

He's also a regular at the Conservative cool aid fountain, founder OF LGBT Conservatives