Anti-racist T-shirts banned from the BBC

BBC Director General Tim Davie has said he will not tolerate BBC journalists wearing T-shirts around the newsroom with the slogan.Black lives matter(Black Lives Matter). Campaigning for a cause, in their view, automatically disqualifies you from covering the issue with the impartiality demanded of the British corporation. It seems to me to be a fallacious argument: it is perfectly imaginable to flaunt the anti-racist slogan and work on everything that is most imaginable, most imaginable, most imaginable, most imaginable, most imaginable, most imaginable, most imaginable, most imaginable, most imaginable, most imaginable, most easy, most imaginable, most imaginable. If someone puts their ideological creed before the code of ethics of informative journalism, change their shirt. Black lives matter for one of Snoopy It won't automatically lead you to the straight path of unbiased objectivity. I understand it's a matter of image, but we should be more concerned with the substance. Of course, there is bad journalism because it's done from the trenches of ideology (or prejudice). But there is also deficient journalism because it's done from a place of privilege. And this second case is harder to self-detect.

And then there's the damned equidistance. Not even in an issue like racism can we assume that the only morally defensible option is to reject it? Banning the slogan, at its core, is handing a victory to the white supremacists who, long ago, promoted the slogan.All lives matter(All lives matter). And of course, all lives matter. But you'd have to suffer from rampant social myopia not to realize that some were far more threatened than others by police violence. Director-General Davie should devote less effort to textiles and more to the BBC's coverage of the war in Gaza, for example.