nigelswift wrote:
It's just fun I think. If black people made a serious objection it would have to stop no doubt. But white Guardian columnists .... not so much.
That's the point though. We're viewing it from our white perspective. Much as pagans may be viewing the swastika from their non-Jewish perspective.

Well yes, although the folk festival people aren't the same as the pagans! If they were convinced they were causing real offence they'd desist I'm sure.