Quincy Jones says Ireland is so racist it's frightening

Emme · 30-01-2018 04:32PM #1

Quincy Jones says Ireland is so racist it's frightening.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/music-producer-quincy-jones-says-ireland-is-so-racist-its-frightening-36546295.html

He might be pleasantly surprised if he went around Ireland. However I had a read of the article and it seems that 84 year old Quincy Jones doesn't like "the fat and old". Isn't that ageist and sizeist of him? He also has 23 girlfriends who all know about each other. Fair play to him. I presume none of them are fat or old.

suicide_circus · 30-01-2018 04:37PM

Shouldn't he stick to solving crimes?

The Backwards Man · 30-01-2018 04:37PM

The original SJW.

aidoh · 30-01-2018 04:37PM

Haha what are you doing posting that on AH?

You're just going to accidentally prove Quincy Jones right!

Rory28 · 30-01-2018 04:38PM

Emme wrote: »

Quincy Jones says Ireland is so racist it's frightening.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/music-producer-quincy-jones-says-ireland-is-so-racist-its-frightening-36546295.html

He might be pleasantly surprised if he went around Ireland. However I had a read of the article and it seems that 84 year old Quincy Jones doesn't like "the fat and old". Isn't that ageist and sizeist of him? He also has 23 girlfriends who all know about each other. Fair play to him. I presume none of them are fat or old.

Maybe it was just Quincy that we didn't like and not a whole race? He seems like a piece of work.

Berserker · 30-01-2018 04:40PM

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Captain Obvious · 30-01-2018 04:41PM

The 84-year-old producer - who has six daughters and a son - told GQ in a wide-ranging interview that he "stays at Bono's castle when he is in Dublin

Yeah, I'm not quite sure he was mixing with the regular folk.

ricero · 30-01-2018 04:45PM

Quincy Jones is a long legged mac daddy

Ninjini · 30-01-2018 04:45PM

He’s friends with Bono, that tells you all you need to know about him.

uch · 30-01-2018 04:48PM

Right that's him goin' on my death Pool list, That'll learn him!

The_Valeyard · 30-01-2018 04:49PM

He's an idiot.

diomed · 30-01-2018 04:50PM

No examples of racism in that article.
You would expect a few entertaining anecdotes.

jonon9 · 30-01-2018 04:50PM

I dont see why mentioning how many sons and daughters have to do with this story.

whisky_galore · 30-01-2018 04:50PM

Remind me of how many race-related Gardaí shooting incidents have occurred here?

AllGunsBlazing · 30-01-2018 04:52PM

Fvck him and his opinion of this country.

:rolleyes: I stay in Bono's castle....

GLaDOS · 30-01-2018 04:56PM

The article is just an assortment of things he has said, with little to no connection to each other. And no mention of Racism after the start of the article.

Coffee Fulled Runner · 30-01-2018 04:59PM

Click bait article

biko · 30-01-2018 05:00PM

Article reads like if he was drunk at the time of the interview

"Why not??? Why? For what, man? There's nothing...there's no upside. You gotta be kidding. I got me some technology out there that keep fat and old away from here. Buzzes if they're too old.

His mind is still in the '50, get with the program old man!

Irish Guitarist · 30-01-2018 05:00PM

Ireland has to be one of the least racist countries in the world. Maybe he's going senile or something.

Bummer1234 · 30-01-2018 05:01PM

Id say he's great craic over a few pints.......

Harry Palmr · 30-01-2018 05:01PM

Quincy Jones is one of my favourite music artists - to be honest he can say whatever he likes having scored The Italian Job and The Getaway (that and he is old and doddery now).

diomed · 30-01-2018 05:03PM

I want to see Tommy Tiernan interviewing him.

wawaman · 30-01-2018 05:08PM

Quincy hasnt been the same since his son formed LMAFO and released "Im Sexy and i know it"

Trigger Happy · 30-01-2018 05:11PM

He must be pissed off to be given a moniker like Quincy.

southstar · 30-01-2018 05:12PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Ireland has to be one of the least racist countries in the world. Maybe he's going senile or something.

Not my experience when I came back here a few years ago....casual racism/bigotry is far more prevalent than in the UK...at least that's what I experienced when listening to work colleagues. Quincy Jones does seem like a bit of an arse though and maybe a bit of a racist himself...nothing too unusual there.

Odhinn · 30-01-2018 05:12PM

Emme wrote: »

Quincy Jones says Ireland is so racist it's frightening.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/music-producer-quincy-jones-says-ireland-is-so-racist-its-frightening-36546295.html

But says feck all else, so we've no idea why he thinks that at all. Pointless article that leaves you no wiser for having read it.

Bob Harris · 30-01-2018 05:15PM

That senseless ramble by Mr. Jones is one of the more coherent articles the Indo has published recently.

Grayson · 30-01-2018 05:20PM

southstar wrote: »

Not my experience when I came back here a few years ago....casual racism/bigotry is far more prevalent than in the UK...at least that's what I experienced when listening to work colleagues. Quincy Jones does seem like a bit of an arse though and maybe a bit of a racist himself...nothing too unusual there.

When I worked in call centres I heard some racist crap. I'm not racist but.... kind of stuff and some of it was shocking. But it was pretty rare. Most of the people I worked with never said or did anything slightly racist. Now I work in tech I never hear anything like that.

But you're right when you say it's worse in the UK. I have friends from there who are casually racist all the time. They have no problems making blanket statements about any racial/ethnic group. Even when I was in the call centre, taking calls from english customers, you'd hear racist crap. Especially towards the irish.

southstar · 30-01-2018 05:30PM

Bob Harris wrote: »

That senseless ramble by Mr. Jones is one of the more coherent articles the Indo has published recently.

Yeah its usually blubbering over Irelands richest people, poshest schools, associated lifestyle drivel, stoking the property bubble (again)...cant take it seriously as a newspaper anymore.

Odhinn · 30-01-2018 05:35PM

southstar wrote: »

Yeah its usually blubbering over Irelands richest people, poshest schools, associated lifestyle drivel, stoking the property bubble (again)...cant take it seriously as a newspaper anymore.

BOD, Huberman, that Egan gob****e, that Keane gob****e, that Egan gob****e, vogue fuckin williams ad fuckin nauseam......

pemay · 30-01-2018 05:40PM

Racism is only a problem when different races mix together.

The more races that live together, the bigger a problem racism becomes.

I'd say the Japanese are racist as f**k, but seeing as its probably 95% Japanese living in japan.......its not a problem for either the japs OR other races.

Just solved the racist problem of the world, will be waiting on that nobel prize through the post any day now

Quincy Jones says Ireland is so racist it's frightening

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