How did polite disagreement become a police matter?
In the age of the easily offended, literally anything can be classified as hateful. And no, not just by woke Twitter warriors or snowflake students – by the actual police.
The police are recording all manner of perfectly normal comments and behaviour as ‘hate incidents’. All it takes is for the supposed victim – or anyone else – to see something, anything, as a hate incident and, hey presto, it is a hate incident.
