The shop has since removed the image and apologised on Instagram.
'We will keep this brief,' the post read. 'The image that has caused offence has been removed. We apologise unreservedly for any and all distress that it caused.'
Mr Harriman posted screenshots of the apology, with a tweet from Surrey Police confirming that the image has been taken down.The 'offending image'..? A photo of a tobacco plantation. In a tobacconist.
After filming inside the store, Harriman, 46, spoke directly to the camera outside it, expressing his fury that a shop in 2023 could use an image of oppression to promote its products, calling it 'triggering' and 'damaging to many people'.
Something's damaging all right, but it isn't a sepia photo of a byegone age...
What sort of numpty videos walking round a shop and then "happens" upon a photo apparently taken on a tobacco plantation? I would suggest this numpty already knew the photo was there, and gave the appearance of a casual shopper who had no idea the photo was there, and then became offended when he saw it.
ReplyDeleteIf he really was offended, then he chose to be offended, rather than the shop owners displaying it, knowingly would offend someone.
How did this numpty know the pickers were slaves or indentured?
Sadly, the shop owners apologised and removed it. Never, ever, apologise. If you do, these people will see it as a victory and demand even more restrictions.
Penseivat
Oh, spot on! And he got what he wanted, so will go looking for the next 'outrage'.
DeleteThere's only one race and that's the Human race.
ReplyDeleteWhat I see in the photo are paid workers and perhaps their paymasters. The same as in any business. Because as far as I know, slavery had been abolished by the time that photo had been taken.
What does truth matter to these people?
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