http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/13/europe/jeremy-clarkson-sued-racial-discrimination/index.html
Plenty of people saw (and at least one recorded) Jeremy going on a drunken bigoted rant, but I'm not sure racism is the right term to apply between a white English guy and a white Irish guy 
In reply to GameboyRMH: only if you narrowly define race as the color of one's skin.
Wait - so you can only determine if something is racist by first admitting you think that race somehow differentiates two people?
but realistically, you don't even have to be a different race from someone to make a racist comment about them.
Whatever the reason, Jeremy was certainly in the wrong, and he has deep pockets, so there's nothing surprising about this.
There's a long-standing racial divide between the Irish and the English, who historically considered the Irish inferior and backward. The English told (tell?) Irish jokes like we used to tell Polish jokes. Heck, in this country there was racial discrimination against the Irish that was something of a backlash of the famine immigration.
Funny, though, how this fellow acted like the whole thing was no big deal when it occurred and now it's a discrimination lawsuit. I'm sure that's based on whatever insults Jeremy laid out during the incident.
I was surprised the article failed to mention Jeremy's "slant" comment in connection with an Asian man in one episode.
In reply to Basil Exposition:
Reminds me of a line from the movie The Commitments:
Jimmy Rabbitte: Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud.
In reply to Basil Exposition:
Slope, but who gives a E36 M3.
He said something about lazy Mexicans. I think he may have also mentioned something about the French at some point...
Is there anyone Clarkson hasn't insulted? 
In reply to Ian F:
I guarantee that list is shorter....and even after all the American insulting, I still laugh. Probably because I was taught not be a Bob Costas.
Yea, I don't think Clarkson has missed anybody.
alfadriver wrote: In reply to GameboyRMH: only if you narrowly define race as the color of one's skin.
At one time a marriage between an Irish person and an Italian person was considered mixed race.
Ever been in argument where once you're done with it...and you remember the words that were spoken to you....you just get angrier and angrier? I'm sure there is plenty of built up resentment as well. The dynamic between those two guys didn't develop at just that moment. I'm sure it aged like a soft cheese left under glass in the glaring sun which once the lid came off everyone regreted it.
It was Hammond that got the lazy Mexican line, though I wouldn't be surprised if Jeremy wrote it.
Oh, and everybody says things about the French. All of it well-deserved.
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