Saturday - November 23, 2013

THE DIVERSITY PO-LEECE AND OFFENSE SEEN WHERE IT DOESN’T EVEN EXIST

Just another sign of the times.

It only takes ONE “offended” loony tune to open an investigation into race and hate crime scenario.

Another gem from Littlejohn of the Daily Mail.

SEEING OFFENSE WHERE THERE ISN’T ANY

By Richard Littlejohn

A mural painted in 1936 and lovingly restored with a Heritage Lottery Fund grant this week found itself at the centre of a ‘hate crime’ investigation.

It features scenes from the Lewis Carroll children’s classic Alice In Wonderland and is on display in the assembly hall at Wardie Primary School in Edinburgh.

But when one prospective parent spotted a golliwog lurking on a shelf in one of the nine paintings, she went bonkers. Sorry, but there really is no other word to describe her reaction.

Margaret Neizer-Rocha complained to the police, the City of Edinburgh Council and members of the Scottish Parliament about the ‘racist and offensive nature’ of the mural.

She likened it to displaying a swastika or a Ku Klux Klan costume.

Oh, for heaven’s sake.

But instead of telling Mrs Neizer-Rocha to calm down, the authorities indulged her. A po-faced police spokesman said: ‘Police Scotland treats all reports relating to hate incidents seriously and investigates thoroughly whenever a report of this nature is made.’

This is what happens when you change the law to allow ‘hate crimes’ to be defined in the eye of the beholder. All sense of perspective goes straight out of the window. You end up with lowest-common-denominator prosecutions based not on facts but on the opinion of the person with the thinnest skin.

Mrs Neizer-Rocha, who is herself black, is entitled to take offence. But she’s not entitled to expect the forces of law and order to dance to her tune.

Unfortunately, the police long ago lost the plot when it comes to ‘racism’ and ‘hate crimes’.

Most of us thought we’d grown out of all this golliwog nonsense donkey’s years ago. It all began back in the Eighties when the Left launched a campaign against the gollies on Robertson’s jam jars.

The hysteria reached its nadir when a number of police forces raided toy shops confiscating gollies and threatening owners with prosecution.

Even Buckingham Palace was forced to issue a grovelling, self-flagellating apology after someone spotted a golliwog on sale in the Sandringham souvenir shop.

How on earth can anyone classify an 80-year-old Alice In Wonderland painting as a ‘hate’ incident?

There is more than enough genuine hatred and racism in the world, without fetishising golliwogs for special opprobrium.

Why should modern black people living in Britain be offended? I’ve never seen anyone who looks or dresses remotely like a golliwog. Well not since the days of Afro perms and Seventies funk bands.

Isn’t it time, in the Left’s favourite phrase, to move on?

There was an interesting letter in The Times yesterday from a man of African heritage living in Devon. You can’t change history, he wrote, so leave the golliwogs alone.

That’s precisely the point made about the Alice In Wonderland mural by Jeremy Howard, of the Decorated School project at the University of St Andrews: ‘This is history. If you start painting it out or get rid of it you’re deceiving people about what views were prevalent in the Thirties.’

While Plod couldn’t wait to launch a ‘hate’ investigation, and tick a few ‘diversity’ boxes, the school and Edinburgh Council are made of sterner stuff and have refused to remove the mural or paint over the golly.

And that should be the end of the matter but,

in order to be seen to be ‘doing something’, the school has announced it will be stepping up ‘anti-racism’ lessons for its pupils.

Why?

littlejohn

Posted by peiper     on 11/23/2013 at 05:02 AM   
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