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BRITISH CHARGED FOR CALLING RISHI A COCONUT

 
Emir 2024-06-23 18:20:16 

This week, the 37 year-old schoolteacher was charged with a racially aggravated public order offence for holding up a satirical banner during a demonstration depicting the PM and ex-home secretary as cocon
uts.

“Coconut” is a racial metaphor used by South Asians to describe someone who is brown on the outside and white on the inside. At its most inoffensive, the term – interchangeable with “Bounty bar” or “brown sahib” – denotes someone who has become too assimilated or acculturated to the dominant “white” culture.


The British are just insane

COCONUT CAN PUT YOU IN JAIL

 
tigga 2024-06-25 17:40:03 

lol buss he nut big grin

 
mikesiva 2024-06-26 07:43:54 

In reply to Emir

In today's Britain, you can get arrested and tried in court for calling a brown Tory a roast breadfruit.

British repression!

 
Emir 2024-06-26 10:47:01 

In reply to mikesiva

No freedom of speech?

The Western media is full of stories about how criticism of certain third world leaders landed journalists in jail- isn't this the same thing?