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One of our brains is missing, or, how the hell did the BBC show this piece of racist crap?

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Well, I’m not (usually) one to whinge, but I’ve finally had a reason to write to OFCOM and complain.

We were having dinner yesterday, when we came across this ancient film from the 70’s on BBC2, called “One of our dinosaurs is missing“, shown between 3:35 pm and 5:05 pm. Basically, we were mostly gobsmacked at the open and outright racist stereotyping displayed in this film. I mean, it has a whole bunch of caucasian men dressed up as Chinese men, who are, of course mostly bad guys. Of course, you have their eyes slantified, and you have the whispy beards, and naturally they have the funny accents that are so hirarious.

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