This British pianist YouTuber, Brendan Kavanagh had recently created controversy over his confrontation with some Chinese people in a London Railway Station.
His interview with the conservative nutjob "Talk TV" have created a controversy. He claimed that Chinese "CCP activists" harassed him to get him to stop playing a public piano. Thus he confronted them and called out the "evil CCP". He is definitely a new star of the conservative white supremacy idiots and China haters around the world.
Looking at this idiot's channel, he has a history of getting into trouble for playing public pianos without regard for permission or laws. So this incident is definitely not his first controversy. Its just that this time, he picked on some Chinese people, and played the racist red scare tactic. And that got him much more attention than he deserves.
This is the explanation by the Chinese girl in his video who got labeled a "CCP activist". She is getting some online abuse for that.
According to her, she was part of a group conducting a CNY video for an undisclosed company. Apparently they were gonna film in that area where that idiot Kavanagh was playing the piano. At first, they waited for him to finish his music, but he hogged that piano for 40 minutes. So when the Chinese girl came over to politely ask him to stop so that they could start filming, that's where the confrontation happened. In her video, Kavanagh directed some sly racist insults at her and her group, and complained about the "evil CCP". Then he got angrily confronted by another Chinese guy, whom I dunno is from the same group or not. Later on the police came, called him out for racism, and ejected him from the scene.
Eventhough Kavanagh was a racist idiot, I feel alot of blame have to also fall on that unknown company who organized that CNY video. The company ordered the Chinese staff to stick to a strict non-disclosure about the film, as well as asking them to wave Chinese flags. So when those staff wanted to politely ask Kavanagh to stop his piano nonsense, they cannot reveal the details, thus creating a confrontational situation. Did that company even booked that space for the filming? Why must it be so strictly hush-hush when it is filming a CNY video in a public space? The stupidity of that company put its staffs in a difficult situation.
