As part of their ‘Zero Tolerance to Hate’ campaign, the Devon & Cornwall Police in the United Kingdom has produced an animated short which has drawn criticism online for being ‘anti-white propaganda’. The controversial video in question was shared by the X account for the independent news aggregator site Europa.com.
It is not available on the landing page dedicated to the Zero Tolerance to Hate campaign on the Devon & Cornwall Police’s website. However, the logo shown at the end of the video is displayed multiple times on the page, meaning that the X post was most likely correct on the source.
As Europa.com points out in its X post, the cartoon produced by a UK police force features a series of incidents where white British citizens are extremely racist towards people of colour, such as a customer racially abusing a black shopkeeper, the same man forcefully pulling off the hijab of a Muslim woman’s head on the street, or a white bus driver refusing to let a black passenger board the bus. The narrator then encourages the viewer to report such incidents to the police. However, no instance of a person of colour being prejudiced or hostile to a white British person is shown in the video; and it is unclear if the police are soliciting such reports from the public.
However, to be fair, a white character who reports an incident is portrayed in a positive light in the UK police cartoon.
Furthermore, the narrator instructs the public: ‘If you observe or experience any threatening behaviour, even if it isn’t a crime, you should contact the police,’ which appears to be showing the intention on the part of the Devon & Cornwall Police to infringe on the freedom of expression rights of law-abiding British citizens.
This is not the first time an unconventional anti-hate campaign gimmick by a public institution in the United Kingdom has drawn a lot of negative attention online.
In January of this year, a video game was released by the Hull City Council in Hull, United Kingdom, with the title Pathways: Navigating the Internet and Extremism. In the game, users were supposed to take on the perspective of a young university student named Charlie and pick the story options that guide them away from racism and bigotry.
However, instead of the protagonist, internet users became focused on the character of Amelia, a young female character, meant to be an antagonist by the game’s developers, who is espousing British nativist arguments. Amelia became a wildly popular internet meme, with online artists creating many renditions of the character, depicting her as an attractive, patriotic young woman.
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