A British court recently declared a comedian guilty of a hate crime for posting a “grossly offensive” video on YouTube. Mark Meechan (a.k.a. “Count Dankula”) is currently facing a jail sentence for training his girlfriend’s dog to raise his paw, mimicking a Nazi salute.
“My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is,” said Meechan in the introduction to his viral video. “And so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of, which is a Nazi.” Meechan later apologized for the video, expressed his hatred of racism “in any way, shape or form,” and reiterated that the whole purpose of the original video was to annoy his girlfriend.
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