Count Dankula reports this excellent story. Not excellent for free speech, but excellent fun to hear about.
Lecturer reported to police for hate crime after saying 'English are wankers'
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A university lecturer who quoted a speech from Trainspotting was accused of committing a hate crime.
James Mooney, a film and philosophy lecturer at Edinburgh University, was reported to police for writing on Instagram: "Spent this morning telling a group of visiting American students that we don’t really hate the English, but that they are wankers. Welcome to Scotland."
It was a reference to the famous scene where Ewan McGregor’s character, Mark Renton, rants about Scotland being "colonised" by the English.
[The movie quote is] "Some hate the English. I don't," he says. "They’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers. Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonised by."
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Link to Dankula's youtube on the story
Dankula: "If I call an Englishman a wanker, I demand that he call me one back, because that means we're friends."