My take on the incident... copy & paste from my X posts...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 some Chinese event people to stick to a strict non-disclosure about the film, as well as have them 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 puts those people in a difficult situation.
After watching two related videos on YouTube by Dr K (the pianist) and many posts on X about this, my final conclusion is that both parties were at fault. The 3 Chinese ppl actively involved in the row were being Karen a bit, and their poor English didn't help and added to the...
miscommunication, they failed to understand the cited law in China doesn't apply in the UK, their embargo agreement with their client doesn't concern Dr K. They should have left and picked a different time to film instead of confronting him and making a scene...
Besides, as it was a live stream, there wasn't much Dr K could have done to edit out their faces even if he wanted to help. Then the screaming of "Don't touch her" by the guy was just ridiculous... (note: one guy of the group tried to intimidate Dr K by falsely suggesting that he's trying touch one of the ladies when he was just touching the flag and they had shaken hands earlier in another video.)
Dr K aka Brendan Kavanagh was nasty too, calling them Japanese when he had already been told by the lady they are Chinese, then provoking them by calling the Chinese national flag the Communist flag, that was IMO intentional to make a scene for himself.
What's also interesting is that there's an English looking guy with the Chinese group, why didn't he step in to explain the situation to Dr K or tell the group that they can't demand Dr K to not release the video.
But as usual, the anti China crowd are milking this to smear Chinese.