Oh Noes! How Horrible! We Must Expand The Definition Of 'Racism' Immediately!

Brace yourself, Reader, guess what's 'racist' now?

A runner in the Great North Run says she was racially abused by a section of spectators.

What did they do? Thow bananas? Make monkey noises?  

She said she noticed England flags while passing through a residential area before hearing people shout: "Protect our kids. Protect our England." 

It's a race run in England, love. Why shouldn't they wave the country's flags? But back to the 'racism', because there must have been more than that, surely? And since our PM was running in this thing, it'll have been recorded.

"And as I went past them next to the roundabout, they booed me," Kirk-Odunubi said.

...

That's it? That's all?  

She said it was her "worst experience" during a race and that "hate has no place in running". 

Hate to break it to you, love, but you aren't owed anyone's cheers. And if this really is your worst experience then there's clearly no real problem with race relations in the UK - quick, someone tell the 'Guardian'!

"This is racism in a space where it should not be," Kirk-Odunubi told BBC Sport.

Give me a break! But of course, the race organisers are taking it seriously, instead of laughing this thin-skinned prima donna out of their offices and telling her to grow up. 

A spokesperson said GNR was "shocked and saddened" by the incident. A statement read: 

"We do not condone behaviour of this nature and we truly believe the event is for everyone. 

"Over 200,000 people turned out in support. It's a real shame that a small subset have spoilt Emma's experience. 

"We are in touch with Emma to understand more about what happened and will be passing on all information to the local police.

They should charge you with 'wasting police time'. 

"We are working with local authorities and the emergency services to understand more about what has happened, and we will of course be taking learnings from this incident to try and mitigate this happening at future events."

What will you do, hire profressional cheerers to stand in the crowd, for the next time, to react when anyone black hoves in sight?

Can I Desecrate Graves Too?

A man is exasperated after repeatedly being told he would have to pay hundreds of pounds to see a “deeply offensive” racial term removed from two gravestones.

Because the world should immediately cave in and do it for free..?

Last week, St Margaret’s Church in Rottingdean covered up the headstones to two white music hall singers who performed in blackface. It has now promised to put the memorials – both inscribed with the word “c**n” – into storage.

But it has since emerged that a man had been battling to have the offensive language erased since last April.

Joseph Letang from Telscombe Cliffs, who is of Caribbean heritage, was upset by the wording. He wrote emails to church authorities and took his complaint to the highest levels of the Church of England.

He was repeatedly told the Church could not consider changing the wording unless he paid a £296.20 fee to launch a petition in a church court.

Personally, I'd have preferred the church to say 'No, not at any price. This is someone's gravestone, and the only people who can change it are the descendants'.

But of course, they didn't. Because they too are cowards, these days.

He is astounded by the length of time it took the church to act, and that as someone hurt by the language, he should have to pay for its removal.

How was he 'hurt by the language'? Could he see these gravestones from his window? Did he have to walk past them every day?

Reader, of course not:

He heard about the inscriptions from his 24-year-old daughter, who saw the graves on a walk in the churchyard.

He didn't even see them himself....

Mr Letang said he did not intend for the headstones to be taken away.

He said replacement stones without the offensive words should be put up to remember the dead and the originals, or photos of them, should be given to a museum.

When are we going to stop abasing ourselves to this 'offence culture'? There's no end to it. And the backlash is already starting.

Peak Absurdity Has Now Been Reached!

The new Peter Rabbit film is facing a boycott over a scene in which a gang of bunnies attack a man with blackberries...

Eh..?

...knowing he is allergic to them.

Oh, for the love of...! I can guess who is demanding a boycott! And I'm not wrong:

Several groups representing allergy sufferers have condemned the scene, prompting the hashtag #boycottpeterrabbit on social media.

Australian group Global Anaphylaxis Awareness and Inclusivity (Globalaai) has created a petition asking distributor Sony Pictures to apologise, saying the film “mocks the seriousness of allergic disease and is heartbreakingly disrespectful to the families of those that have lost loved ones to anaphylaxis”.

I'd like to think Sony Pictures will tell them to sod off. But we know they won't.

The American group Kids with Food Allergies Foundation said in a Facebook post warning parents about the film that “food allergy ‘jokes’ are harmful to our community”.

You aren't 'a community', you're just the spokegroup for people with a disorder!

Wouldn't your time be better spent looking for a cure, instead of something to be outraged about?

Yes, The Police Are Terribly Overstretched…

A vegetarian claims she had a bucket of coins thrown at her after asking a cafe to remove chicken from her halloumi sandwich.

Shana Stuart, 19, from Hove went into Fine Eat in Western Road and asked for her cheese sandwich not to be cooked with the meat.

But when she found there was chicken in her sandwich and returned to the cafe, she claims she was abused by cafe staff.

*yawns*

Miss Stuart admits she tossed the meat-tainted sandwich back to staff - but says in return a tips bucket full of coins was thrown at her, striking her at the back of the head and neck

Oh, grow up!

Sussex Police said it was investigating the incident.

Really? I mean, really..?