I guess I'm just not seeing the crime. I understand it was a racial comment, but I don't get the impression he made any kind of threat or anything. If he was

I guess I'm just not seeing the crime. I understand it was a racial comment, but I don't get the impression he made any kind of threat or anything. If he was threatening people and/or saying he was going to commit some crimes, I would understand. It sounds like he was being stupid, but relatively harmless. Is it illegal to be ignorant in the UK?