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    Racial hate speech laws being ‘weaponised’ warns National Black Police Association
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    Racial hate speech laws being ‘weaponised’ warns National Black Police Association

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    1. LycanIndarys on

      >Symeon Brown has been talking to people of colour who’ve been subjected to police investigations over race-related language, including the former teacher who went viral last year with a placard depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts.

      But calling Sunak and Braverman “coconuts” *is* racist. It is accusing them of betraying their ethnicity, and *really* being white – and it’s self-evident that expecting people of a certain ethnicity to act in a certain way, and any deviation from that standard is “proof” that they are secretly “acting white”, is racist.

      So when the NBPA says the laws are being “weaponised”, they mean presumably “being used as they were intended to stop racist hate speech”? Or perhaps they think that it’s acceptable for ethnic minorities to be racist?

      It does make it sound like a “leopards eating my face” moment though.

    2. ModdingmySkyrim on

      I think this hair splitting “well actually it’s not racist because…” crap is where you lose most people.

    3. Big-Government9775 on

      The KKK have probably said the same thing.

      Have they considered not being racist?

    4. MobyDobieIsDead on

      “We thought these laws would only apply to white people and we didn’t think we’d be held to the same accountability”

    5. bitofslapandpickle on

      Hate speech laws come back to bite us in the arse shocker! Whatever next!

    6. AffableBarkeep on

      So the NBPA is complaining about its members falling afoul of laws against racism? 🧐

    7. Reres_Papa on

      Ooooh, as a white man with a non-white spouse I can assure you it isn’t white people who are most likely to take offence at us.

      The “pro-XYZ” crowd for example aren’t keen on interracial relationships.

    8. Comfortable-Yak-7952 on

      Rules for thee but not for me.

      What a cringe video. “Coconut isnt racist because I was referring to white supremacist policies”. Lol, pull the other one luv.

    9. StatisticianOwn9953 on

      This kind of thing has been spreading quite a lot because of lunatic academics, thick students, and the internet. It always seems slightly mad when you see it surfacing in ‘real’ settings, but then popular ideas from thinky people tend to do that.

      The NBPA should be embarrassed. We have equality before the law in this country, and the uninitiated know intuitively that you don’t have to be white to be racist. Fuck these people and fuck their ideas.

    10. Unlucky-Jello-5660 on

      So people using hate speech are upset they are getting caught out by hate speech laws ?

    12. FinalInitiative4 on

      So they thought hate speech laws wouldn’t apply to them?
      Haha!
      “No no you don’t understand we’re ALLOWED to be racist to white people”

    13. Luficer_Morning_star on

      Ah forgive me but I thought the laws applied to everyone.

      Rule for thee but not for me

    14. Aggressive_State9921 on

      Can I just take a moment to comment on his INCREDIBLY awkward walk around the wall of Scotland Yard and look up at the spinning sign while a camera person sticks a camera in his face. Was utterly hilarious.

      He looked like he was holding in a fart.

    15. FishDecent5753 on

      If you make all your politics about race, you campaign to base access to society on race and all your talking points are on race. Your not just a racist your a national socialist and your ideas need fucking smashing in the same manner as white supremacy.

    16. FishDecent5753 on

      If you make all your politics about race, you campaign to base access to society on race and all your talking points are on race. Your not just a racist your a national socialist and your ideas need fucking smashing in the same manner as white supremacy.

    17. Rule_Brittania56 on

      Then repeal it, your anti speech law is infringing on your free speech, then get rid of it and let everyone speak freely, unless you’re afraid of being treated how you want to treat others

    18. Boring-Opposite9406 on

      Oh, are the speech laws you campaigned for being used against you? If only there were people warning you to not criminalise speech for this very reason. You don’t get to have laws that only apply to one demographic based on race, I thought we abolished that sort of thing nearly a hundred years ago.

    19. Longjumpi319 on

      So basically they were expecting the new laws to be used exclusively to silence white people and are now extremely upset that they are being held to the standards that they preach but don’t want to actually do themselves

    20. knotty1990 on

      Saw someone on twitter defending the coconut sign as

      “Mild intra-communal political satire”

      My favourite ever excuse for being racist.

    21. test_test_1_2_3 on

      Oh look more identity politics and playing the perpetual victim.

      Fuck off NBPA you racist fucks.

    22. bateau_du_gateau on

      Race-based membership groups should not exist in the police force or anywhere else for that matter. 

    23. roddz on

      What? The thing noone said would happen when this shit was introduced is happening? Well colour me shocked