A racist slur by the SBC foreign journalist Charlie D’Agata is receiving a major blowback for describing Iraq and Afghanistan under civilized.
In a CBS broadcast, Charlie D’Agata called Ukraine “relatively civilized, relatively European” in comparison to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan on a Friday broadcast.
Charlie was reporting from Kyiv- the capital city of Ukraine which is currently under attack by the Russian army. D’Agata also claimed, “Tens of thousands of people have tried to flee the city, there will be many more. People are hiding out in bomb shelters,” he said.
“This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades,” he said, adding, “You know, this is a relatively civilized, relatively European city where you wouldn’t expect that or hope that it’s going to happen.”