A police department from North Wales is taking flak for posting an offensive set of photos and video on Twitter. The images in question didn’t involve nudity, violence, or graphic language, but some social justice warriors are offended.
Take a look for yourself and see if you can find anything offensive.
At some point you have to draw a line under it…..
Good morning everyone. Bore da.
Thursday already and today hopefully we will get chance to broadcast live, but first I have to review the last 24 hrs. pic.twitter.com/SIO0pnM5Kg
— RuralCrimeTeam™ (@NWPRuralCrime) January 4, 2018
Feeding time at the zoo…..!
Great breakfast and team meeting this morning. It's so important to openly discuss our work and our plans together.
Communication is key as well as a perfectly poached egg or two! pic.twitter.com/pOC1U9yzVb
— RuralCrimeTeam™ (@NWPRuralCrime) December 18, 2017
Looks pretty safe right? It turns out the photo above is incredibly offensive to some members of the local community, vegans.
The Rural Crime Team of North Wales started sharing images of their “Full English” breakfast, which includes eggs, bacon, sausages, beans, and toast, to support local farmers. The public relations gimmick was intended to draw attention to the NFU of Wales’ “farmhouse breakfast” campaign.
Vegan viewers weren’t too happy about it. “Speaking as a taxpayer I’d prefer them to be less selective when answering questions and perhaps not post breakfast pics that offend vegetarian/vegan followers – pretty thoughtless considering the job title they have,” wrote one upset reader on Twitter.
And to finish 2017 I had to post this recent reply about our Twitter account, to show why we are withdrawing from answering questions or comments on Twitter for the time being.
Nothing more I can say really…….
Happy 2018 pic.twitter.com/lh4JMkhYBT
— RuralCrimeTeam™ (@NWPRuralCrime) December 31, 2017
Farmers in favor of the campaign were quick to fire back against the vegan outrage. “It’s pathetic,” wrote farmer Jono Dixon. “The vegans are ruling the roost. They are nothing more than a menace. We as carnivores or vegetarians don’t dictate about there preferred diet so it’s time they stopped trolling and whingeing about everyone’s daily diets.”
RCT chief Rob Taylor said his team simply doesn’t have enough time to engage with such nonsense. “We regularly get 1m impressions each month and in August alone we had 1.9m impressions,” he wrote. “We just can’t answer (all inquiries) any more as it’s a huge commitment. Over Christmas we had too much general interaction with people from various walks of life bombarding our feed with questions and we couldn’t cope.”
This is about as ridiculous as the time SJWs called the Spanish word for “black” racist.