A Telegraph article from April takes great pleasure in using witty puns to take cheap shots at right-wingers:
White wing supremacist
A swan nesting at Warwick University has been accused of attacking students from ethnic minorities
Warwick University has erected a fence around a campus lake to stop a spate of swan attacks on students.
A 4ft tall bird, which boasts an 8ft wingspan, has been accused of behaved aggressively towards foreign students as they cross over a footbridge near its nesting place at the university’s Gibbet Hill campus in Coventry, West Midlands.
The footbridge is used by hundreds of students everyday as a route between accommodation and university buildings. Undergraduates revealed that the swan only appeared to target students from ethnic minorities.
One 24-year-old student from India said: “These swans are very annoying, and the students feel as though they’re being bullied.
“I’m from India, and they attack me especially, they focus straight on me…
“I think they don’t like too many Indians in England – maybe the swans here are a little bit racist.”
Italian student Albertina Crocetti, 24, who is studying Physics with Business Studies, said: “It’s bizarre, she doesn’t seem to like foreigners and attacks them to defend her nest.
“She’s a true right winger that’s for sure – they certainly seem to be racially motivated incidents…
Oh, that’s SO CLEVER!! I’m so impressed…
… with how the author, Olivia Yallop, can get through an entire article – and avoid asking the obvious question: How is it that a swan got to be racist? That’s the obvious question, and it has an obvious answer: Non-Whites have mistreated the swan, or its friends, in the past. The swan has pattern recognition – assuming, of course, that the story is accurate.
Why would Miss Yallop avoid this question? The answer is at the end of the article:
“The story arose after a student was contacted about something they had posted on social media that they intended to be humorous.
“The student is greatly saddened to see how a flippant remark they then made was reported.
“The student says that they now both regret and withdraw that remark.”
Translation: The student asked the obvious question and provided the obvious answer. This is not allowed, and he was made to withdraw the remark and apologize. If it’s not allowed for the student, who might be expelled, then it’s also not allowed for the Miss Yallop, who would get herself fired if she did so. The best she could do is leave a hint at the end of the article.
It must be so frustrating for Miss Yallop, being forced to dumb down her writing in order to put bread on the table.
