So I ask again: Who cares if the victim was incompetent? No amount of incompetence makes it fine to abuse and assault someone, so bringing up the producer's competence is, in fact, trying to shift the blame. Why else bring it up?
Please don't put words into my mouth.
Once again - I didn't say it was fine to assault anyone and I'm not trying to shift the blame.
I didn't put words into your mouth. You were the one bringing up the alleged incompetence of the producer - after someone else posted about the same, as if it mattered. If it does matter, then you're saying that incompetence somehow makes the assault "less" of an assault, and if it doesn't matter, then why bring it up?
I was merely wondering how the BBC will now address the issue of the producer if indeed he was incompetent.
I think it will be rather difficult.
Not really. If he is incompetent, he's not able to do his job competently, and therefore should not have had the job in the first place. However, that is a completely different issue than being assaulted by someone and has no bearing on whether or not Clarkson should have been fired for the assault, or wether or not it was an assault in the first place. Again, why bring his competency into it?
