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GB News is facing a backlash after a commentator on one of its shows suggested there is “a genocide happening” against white people in England and that immigrants could “turn” on the white population.

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[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 21 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Ofcom has received 24 complaints, but has not yet decided whether to investigate.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Make your voice heard.

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

When was it broadcasted? A date is needed to register a complaint.

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Sunday 8th March

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago

I doubt it will go very far, there's been a court ruling that GBnews is allowed to host "current affairs" programs, and that impartiality rules don't really apply to those. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GB-News-v-Ofcom.pdf

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 13 points 17 hours ago

He is usurping the meaning of the word genocide, which is dangerous

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

“If this was happening in any other place around the world, everyone would be defending and saying: ‘Wow, there’s a genocide happening in this island because it is being taken over by different people that are not indigenous to that land.’”

Wonder what his thoughts on Israel are

Maybe we can find out

https://www.thomas-corbett-dillon.com/

[-] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 17 hours ago

I assume he wants all Americans to give their land back to the respective tribes then, right?

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 16 hours ago

...all Americans...

I am part native American (14.8% according to genetic analysis). Does that mean that only my right leg is welcome?

[-] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 5 points 15 hours ago

I'm afraid you don't get to choose what 14.8% will stay.

[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 2 points 16 hours ago

We don't want them all back over here though.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 18 hours ago

You don't even have to go further than the article:

Approached for comment, Corbett-Dillon replied with a lengthy statement in which he said he stood by his comments. He compared his support for England to preserve its “historic English character” with his backing for Israel’s right to be a Jewish-majority state, or Japan to be a Japanese-majority society.

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 17 hours ago

I totally missed that

[-] Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 2 points 17 hours ago

Stop playing into the stereotype GB News, you're making the rest of us look bad.

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