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Does Dan Hannan Have A Point?

The answer to this question, I must admit, is usually: no.

However, Dan asks of this video, produced by the European Union:

Is the EU’s latest propaganda video racist?

Aryan babe, representing the EU, takes on sinister dark-skinned assailants. Maybe I’m being oversensitive; then again, this isn’t the first time Brussels has promoted itself this way.

Watch the video yourself. In it, a stereotypically portrayed Chinese kung fu fighter, a Saladineque Arab with a scimitar, and an angry looking black capoeira-ist square up against a white woman in a leotard.

Fortunately, she clones herself and surrounds them.

My dodgy-meter registers: Quite Dodgy