Another Golliwog furore
Golliwogs are old-fashioned soft toys for children modelled on the appearance of an African. They are still popular with children in England and Australia.
"A mother ended up getting arrested in a bizarre case of political correctness gone mad when her six-year-old daughter stuck a golliwog doll on their windowsill. English 39-year-old Amanda Schofield was quizzed on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence after a neighbour complained.
Schofield, of Stockport, Greater Manchester, had removed the toy from the window as she put little Eboni to bed - yet was still visited by cops the same night. She was asked to attend a police station and was not charged.
Schofield told our sister paper The Sun: "I feel like a criminal. I can't believe it." A police spokesman said: "It was the latest in a number of previous incidents that the victim perceived to be race-related."
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5 comments:
If it is still legal to sell and buy such dolls it cannot or shouldn't be a police matter to investigate someone placing such a doll in their own window. The police complain about work overload and shouldn't be wasting their time in such a frivolous way.
"The police complain about work overload and shouldn't be wasting their time in such a frivolous way."
Obviously, anon, you've never dealt with the English police.
Then again if you had to patrol the mean Streets of Manchester (sans gun) you'd go for the Soft target as well.
By using their time investigating nonsense complaints they can avoid doing any real work.
Don't blame the Police for what the socialist policy/law makers create. If people had any common sense left, (they don't) they would realize that political correctness is a greater threat to our freedom than is terrorism!
So call the cops if you are offended by something? That's a road I don't think we want to go down.
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