The 11-Year Old Homophobe
An 11-year old boy in England was subjected to a homophobic crime investigation by the police because he called a classmate “gay” in an e-mail.
The parents of the boy who received the message complained to the police in Cheshire who then opened an investigation and sent two policemen to visit the alleged homophobe at his home.
When the parents of the 11-year old boy complained that the police were being heavy handed they told the father that they considered it a very serious matter.
The boy told his parents that he didn’t intend to be homophobic, and he had used the word “gay” instead of “stupid” which apparently the parents of the boy who received the e-mail and the police didn’t realize is something many school age children do without a second thought and with no homophobic intent.
If not for political correctness which has people walking on eggshells fearing that anything they say or do will offend someone, this incident would never have risen to the level of a police investigation.
I think the father of the accused put it best when he told The Daily Mail “This seemed like a huge waste of resources for something so trivial as a playground spat.”
Don Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy in Media, Accuracy in Academia’s sister organization.
Don Irvine
Donald Irvine is the chairman of of Accuracy in Academia (AIA), a non-profit research group reporting on bias in education. Irvine follows his father’s legacy, Reed Irvine, to critically analyze the liberal media’s bias and brings over thirty years of media analysis experience. He has published countless blog posts and articles on media bias, in context of current events, and he has been interviewed by many news media outlets during his professional career. He currently hosts a livestream weekly show on AIA’s Facebook page which discusses current events.
Irvine graduated from the University of Maryland and rose up the ranks to become chairman of Accuracy in Media until his transition to AIA.
He resides in the suburbs around the nation’s capital and is a proud father and grandfather.
