Be Very, Very Careful What You Say.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2582833/Jeremy-Clarkson-accused-racism-Top-Gear-series-finale-Thailand.html

How many know that 'slope' is apparently considered a derogative term for people of Asian decent?

[Old_Geezer]

Errr no one ?

[mccfluff]

i did and its been around for a long time

[retrocop]

I have heard the expression a few times in American films used by GIs in the Vietnam conflict.Full Metal Jacket or maybe Platoon.Usually "Slope Heads" or "Gooks" also.

[Bazile]

He's only 53 ? - must have had a hard life .

But no , he can't have done

[B00]

I've never heard of the term either

[anotheoldgit]

retrocop

/// I have heard the expression a few times in American films used by GIs in the Vietnam conflict.Full Metal Jacket or maybe Platoon.Usually "Slope Heads" or "Gooks" also. ///

But Jeremy Clarkeson, didn't say their was a 'Slope Head' or a 'Gook' on the bridge.

[China Doll]

I wasn't aware and also watched that episode last night; I think you'd really have to take his comment completely out of context to get any racist remark out of it. Bit barmey.

[andy-hughes]

I have never heard the expression, and I ao perfectly willing to accept that Mr Clarkson did not mean any racial slur in his use of it.

Mr Clarkson is far from a shrinking violet when he wants to speak his mind - if he wished to use a racial slur, he would have picked one that his entire audience would understand - ecxept I don't believe he would.

I find Mr Clarkson a stratospherically irritating TV presenter, a wonderful writer, but a racist? I don't think so.

[ummmm]

I've never heard it.

[snags]

'slope/slope head' is used in a derogatory way by many Australians to describe 'Asians'. I've not heard it used over here.

[pixie373]

I've never heard of it. No idea whether Jeremy Clarkson has or not. Andy, it's not so much that he might be racist, but i can see him thinking it's clever.

[TWR]

Is the English Language becoming a One -Way -Street? are we allowed to speak? have we got to walk on Egg Shells just to please?

[wolf63]

I absent heard the expression either, but my little city is not exactly a multicultural hot spot.

[askyourgran]

I've never heard of it except maybe on American Vietnam war films. Jeremy Clarkson is just showing off, he is an a***hole.

[retrocop]

I am aware he did not say there was a slope head or a gook on the bridge.It was,I think, an innuendo.How can he be accused of racism when the other presenter says"You're right one side is definitely higher than the other?" meaning "a slope"I'm sick of small minded trendy lefty bleedin heart brigades trying to make something out of nothing.The more this remark offends these idiots the funnier I find it.

[redman41]

Who on earth thinks of such nonsense other than the 'Daily Wail' ??
What next ?
Skiers will not be allowed to go skiing on the Slopes !!

[Sipowicz]

I've never been a fan of Top Gear, but after it's first run of success, Jeremy Clarkson was given his own talk show. I thought I'd give it a try, I watched one episode and decided JC was a knob, nothing I've read about him since has changed my mind.

[anotheoldgit]

redman41

/// Who on earth thinks of such nonsense other than the 'Daily Wail' ?? ///

Errr, the Daily Mail did not think it, they just reported on the fact that some did.

Should they have not done so and left us unaware that there are idiots out there that take offence over such things?

[dannyk13]

Been around a long time,believed to originate from "slope eyes"