Is it racist to question a person's age?
Migrant who claimed to be 15 years old
Image: Voice of Europe
Apparently it is. When parents whose child ended up being a classmate of the man pictured above questioned whether the man's age was 15 as he had claimed, officials at the Stoke High School in Ipswitch, UK dismissed them as racist. Even though at one point the man himself admitted to being 25 years old and having a family of his own.
Truth to tell, I hate bona fide racism as much as the next guy. Only all too often in this politically correct world people accused of racism are anything but. And this is one of those cases.
So no, truth is not racist, and neither are facts. And it is time we dropped the whole politically correct pretence in favor of reality and truth.
Sources
UK: Parents called racists for questioning the age of a child migrant with a moustache in their daughter’s class
Paul Dijks, Voice of Europe, 24 November 2018
Parents were 'dismissed as racist' by school officials when they complained about 6ft 1ins Iranian migrant posing as a 15-year-old who appeared in their children's classroom
Guy Adams, The Daily Mail, 23 November 2018
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