’Scuse me while I nick this guy . . .
CULTURAL appropriation is the latest ‘hate crime’ dreamed up by the diversity nazis. While they actively promote men dressing up as women and vice-versa (see elsewhere in this column), they deplore anyone dressing up as a member of another race.
Remember the fuss over students wearing sombreros, which was taken as a racist slur against Mexicans?
Barely a week passes without another ridiculous complaint. Jan Ravens, from Spitting Image and the BBC’s Dead Ringers, was recently accused of racism for doing an impersonation of Diane Abbott on the wireless.
Police are investigating four men who blacked up as members of the Jamaican bobsleigh team, from the film Cool Runnings, for a carnival parade in Aberaeron, West Wales. And a shopping centre in Bristol has been similarly accused of ‘ hate’ for staging a Jamaica Day celebration, featuring headdresses and a steel band.
If that’s racist, where does it leave Notting Hill carnival?
The problem is: the law defines ‘ hate’ as anything perceived as hate by anyone, a gift to Left-wing troublemakers.
On that basis, maybe I should call in the police to investigate Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the smug Leftie Channel 4 newsreader.
Guru-Murthy dressed up as Jimi Hendrix for a cancer fundraiser. If it’s a crime for a white student to wear a sombrero, surely the same applies to a British celebrity of Indian extraction doing an impression of a black guitarist. Claiming it’s for charity is no defence.
Hendrix had Native American blood, too. It must be a hate crime for an Indian to impersonate a Red Indian. Or can only whites be guilty of racism?
As regular readers know, if there’s one thing I hate it’s bogus allegations of ‘hate’. But I’m sorely tempted to set the Old Bill on the priggish Guru-Murthy, who is always parading his own moral superiority.
Put your loon pants on, Krishnan, you’re nicked.
PC JESSE ANTONELLI, a member of the Met’s Aviation Policing Unit, accidentally Tasered his own police van while entertaining his colleagues by dancing to bhangra music while on duty near Heathrow. Another one I don’t know whether to file under Mind How You Go or You Couldn’t Make It Up.