Re: [OT] Workplace banter is now a hate crime

On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 12:35:40 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

It seems that a bit of gentle ethnic humour at a going-away party for a
work colleague is now a hate crime, at least in the UK. Leo Kearse
shares information about how a senior police officer underwent some
ribbing from some colleagues at his going-away party (called a "leaving
party" in the UK) over his Irish ethnicity and a colleague took grave
offence on his behalf, leading

If it was about him being black, he would have been drawn and
quartered.