Boom!

With all the Irish in Australia there’ll be plenty of people to drink the Guinness! Is that on the same level, of course not because the Irish aren’t a tetchy political hot potato! I don’t get how racism/discrimination has become so one dimensional….it’s ironically discriminatory itself!

Steve you have weird taste a poroxied blonde with a swarthy look.

If you had the intelligence to recognise it you might see that the Simpsons sketch mocks Americans for their perception of Irishness rather than the Irish, especially given that many Americans have never left America and don’t even own a passport (despite many of them claiming to be Irish)

Comedians make social commentary, take a look at some Lenny Bruce and you might get an education (or better yet, watch the brilliant biopic “Lenny” with Dustin Hoffman as Bruce). They don’t need to be insulting to do so, what they say is more about what they suggest and if you think that comedians are being insulting for the sake of it then you have fundamentally missed out on what most of them actually mean. (It’s debatable whether this includes Frankie Boyle)

Look into Lenny B, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Richard Prior and read a biography or two and you might actually understand that none of them are racist, misogynistic or sexist. They are mostly interested in basic human freedoms and educate us in where the world is actually fked up.

Good posting unlike the PC slave below me…..no other race is made to apologise for silly comments..except white people

@Tomy. Your “intelligent” perception that the writers are mocking Americans might be true to a certain degree but it’s still re-enforcing a negative stereotype which a lot of Irish people may find offensive. My bet is that the writers of the Simpsons would feel a lot safer writing a sketch re-enforcing an Irish stereotype than a Jewish stereotype. So should the solution be to censor anything that may cause offense to a certain group? Paraskevi Papachristou’s joke wasn’t very funny but I certainly wouldn’t class it as hate filled or racist

Very true ….. Thompson should also step down.

She has NOT spend her whole life training for the Olympics.
Like most athletes she got into something she liked and continued it to a level which at some point allowed her to aim for the Olympics.

This might be taking away a lifetime dream but not a lifetime’s training.

She may be to some extent a victim of clamping down on right wing sentiment in Greece but what she said expresses her PERSONAL views and the fact that it went BEYOND her PERSONAL twitter page exposes just how naive it is to imagine that such views should not be expressed by someone in the public eye.

I agree on Daley Thompson too… An ambassador should say nothing which could be construed as offensive. Again, neither of these athletes are on a stage making jokes which hold a mirror up to society – they are in positions of responsibility and role models.

There’s no such thing as a personal twitter feed. That’s like saying that she only wrote it in 6 foot letters on her PERSONAL billboard in the heart of O’Connell street. “Don’t look at what she wrote and published to potentially millions of people. It was personal”.

I don’t think what she wrote was in any way racist.Her “joke” was in reference to a small outbreak of the West Nile virus in Athens that had killed one person and left 5 others sick. It was a very distasteful remark but in no way racist!!

THERE IS such a thing as a personal twitter feed.A personal twitter feed shows tweets that have been made in person by the holder of the account.They solely represent the holder of the account.Her views (however crap they were!) represented herself.Many celebrities and journalists etc say “These are my opinions and not of my employer” on the top of their twitter pages as an extra caveat.That aside she wrote what she did on her own personal twitter feed neither representing the thoughts of Greek Athletics or the Olympic games.It was others with some heightened sensitivities (Greek PC Brigade/Far Left Politicos) that spread her words as a racist jibe against Africans.She showed previous support for the Golden Dawn Party and so the far left jumped on the chance to have her demonised as a racist!!No more was at play here.

RACIST! Kick him off the Journal!

If you have an eye for blond Greek Olympians, here’s an interesting video from Deutsche Welle which has a lot of eye candy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlQq2gPpQ-Q

It’s in German, and the basic point of it is quite sad… the country that brought about the Olympics now can’t give its athletes the basic equipment they need to train to compete at the most basic levels. But they’re trying their best.

Then she should have known that such a thing would attract EXACTLY this type of reaction.

Yeah shock factor was big on this one,i gasped with shock, then I laughed. As gutted as the athlete is,she should of been warned that with the olympics coming around, every athlete would be under a microscope. Up until her tweet, I never knew who she was, she probably had small following and said what harm,let fly. Might even cost her sponsorship.

While I’d agree that political correctness has gone absolutely mad I have no sympathy.

I’m far from an Olympic athlete and wouldn’t need to be told not to tweet anything that could be construed in as in any way offensive.

If you’re in the public eye you should know that people will call for heads if something like this were to get out. If you’re up for the Olympics then you should know exactly how to conduct yourself without someone coaching you for that too.

I’ll say the same thing about her as I said about Daley Thompson – She is not a comedian on stage holding a mirror up to society through a joke about racism – she has offended a lot of the people alongside whom she would be competing. She did not tweet this in order to make a point about Greek society – she tweeted it for cheap laughs. On top of that, there is a very serious build up of far-right sentiment in the guise of Golden Dawn in Greece – such tweets expose something deeper about what’s bubbling in Greek society.

That tweet was brilliant

Can someone explain to me why this is racist.

It is like me saying there is a lot of Polish living in Ireland. Is that racist?

If it is I need help for my racism.

This woman was degrading to African people when she states mosiquittos bite everyone in Greece… Actually it is leveling.

I knew she was for the high jump the minute I read her tweet…

She should not be banned, the Greeks invented the Olympics f that

Most athletes who are olympians train their whole life not just four years.

And peter your ridiculous.

So is ok for me to say..all blondes are stupid..dont think so…she was way out of order..simple and thats the price you pay for being ignorant to the fact that african are humans and mosquito bites can kill…

Shame really cos shes such a honey.

Ah gowan, I wont think your racist

Never mind, didn’t think about it properly

Since when was Africa a nation?

Everything is ok as long as you apologise?

She apologized to everyone except the people she insulted.

Sorry..should say….what whites say

…….no it was the Greeks “They invented Gayness”

Mega Lolz!

So what about freedom of thought

So if she doesn’t concur with your own bigoted opinions, Ross, she should should be denied any platform…would you think the same if she was a supporter of a far-left idiot group?

How are my opinions bigoted?? The far-left are idiots I agree but they don’t have the racism track record that the far-right do. Turns out she is a supporter of the far-right party in Greece, you know, the one with by man who hit a woman on live TV. Her tweet was therefore more than likely racist rather than just a joke. I’m all for a bit of ethnic banter but the far-right are dangerous idiots.

Tell That to Daley uncle Tom Thompson.

I’m not a racist, I’m a misanthropist therefore I can laugh at that joke and at you for being so offended so in the immortal words of nelson muntz… HAHA

The number of red thumbs in the comments section generally is of serious concern IMO. I hope it’s not reflective of Irish society in general. It always amazes me that the Irish have gone EVERYWHERE in the world and had our own troubles but decide that racist comments should be put down to “having the craic” all the time.

Although I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at the Irish being racist – that’s what we did against African Americans and Native Americans when we went to America. All in the name of being seen as the same as the whites who were there to lord over the native Americans and those stolen from Africa.

The fact that you need to write a dissertation of a comment to explain exactly WHY it’s so offensive tells it’s own story
Keep parsing the joke, maybe you’ll find some paedophilia and incest in there as well……

I’ve seen your other posts so can safely ignore your opinion.

Tomy, I agree 100% with you.

Concerned about people disagreeing with you are ya, Tomy?

Take your white race bashing nonsense elsewhere. Sick and tired of having to apologise and walk on egg shells due to me not having significant amounts of melanin in my skin.

White race bashing? Why would I do that?

You may rubbish my opinion all you want – I’m not concerned with that – I’m just concerned at the level of ignorance (in every sense of the word) being displayed here.

How do you know she is uneducated?? Isn’t that the same kind of flippant statement that got this woman in trouble??