Blacked Out

Is there no end to the cultural pestilence of woke extremist literalism? Not only are stuffed dolls which caricature black people taken as caricatures of black people; not only are social media posts echoing far-right rhetoric taken as evidence of far-right sympathies; even the spoken word in native English can now be used to drive the great British landlady out of business. After a recent police raid in which the aforementioned dolls were taken into preventive custody, the co-leaseholder of the Caucasian Hart pub in Essex proclaimed that "if people don't like it, they didn't have to come through my door." By golly, people have stopped coming through the door, including the people who maintain the pumps and some of the Euro-wog snowflakes who supply the beer. The pub has now closed and the owners plan to retire to Turkey, where evidently the standards of liberty upheld by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are more congenial than those in Essex.