Polanski’s ‘banter Stasi’: Chilling order that could have come from 1980s East Germany – Greens tell members to report on friends who crack unwoke jokes… even if the so-called victim finds them funny

The Green Party has been accused of encouraging its members to act like the East German Stasi, as they were told to police their friends’ jokes and report banter to officials.

Diversity training seen by The Mail on Sunday reveals the party’s efforts to crack down on jokes between friends, even when those being mocked are ‘absolutely fine’.

Members were also instructed to audit the race of their closest friends and create more diverse social groups to tackle so-called ‘affinity bias’.

This could then be passed on to party officials to be used in the event of a complaint, though they were told this detailed note-taking ‘shouldn’t replace immediate action’.

The diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training used an example of one Green activist entering a meeting, and seeing people making ‘derogatory jokes’ about the nationality of a Polish person also in the room.

Read more: Polanski’s ‘banter Stasi’: Chilling order that could have come from 1980s East Germany – Greens tell members to report on friends who crack unwoke jokes… even if the so-called victim finds them funny