Isn’t it funny how Left-wing Biden gets a free pass?

While I don’t for a minute believe that Joe Biden is actually a racist, the reaction to his use of the word “negro” during a speech on Veteran’s Day tells the tale of our times.

Recounting one of his familiar stories about the African-american baseball player Satchel Paige, the US President rambled: “I’ve adopted the attitude of the great Negro, at the time, pitcher in the Negro Leagues, went on to become a great pitcher in the pros and Major League Baseball after Jackie Robinson.”

The Negro League was formed by Black baseball players in the 1920s who were banned from playing in the major leagues.

Naturally the comment caused uproar on conservative Twitter, which in turn sparked outrage among social media’s socialists.

Trump fans who tried to seize on the comment were likened by their “progressive” opponents to “klansmen” as Biden’s defenders insisted he had “stumbled” on his words.

The Right will do itself no favours by stooping to the woke crowd’s level when it comes to knee-jerk cancellation. But isn’t it funny how only certain people, who almost always tend to be Left-wing, are allowed such “stumbles”?

Only this week, we had yet another unedifying example of jiggery-wokery in Cambridge University’s infantile decision to ban the art historian Andrew Graham-dixon from its debating society after apparently “offending” students with a Hitler impersonation.

Mr Graham-dixon said he was trying to persuade the audience “that bad taste and bad morality often go hand-in-hand”.

Mr Graham-dixon is no more racist than Biden and yet Cambridge students were quick to declare the former chief critic of the Right-leaning Sunday Telegraph as beyond the pale. Funny that.