It’s something we all find ourselves pondering now and again, when we see a weird old school friend preaching about immigration on Facebook or read about a mosque getting set on fire. Is Britain Racist?

BBC Three attempted to answer the question in an hour long documentary (conveniently titled Is Britain Racist), using a series of scientific (and not so scientific) experiments.

One experiment involved people of different ethnicities and wearing different religious garments giving out doughnuts. The three participants were Deji, a black man, Richard, who’s Jewish, and Hanna, a Muslim who wore both a niqab and a hijab for the experiment.

Naturally, Twitter didn’t take well to this distinctly un-scientific experiment.

First of all, what if those passers by just weren’t feeling a doughnut that day? What have ya gotta say about that, BBC?

Actually scrap that, no one in their right mind would turn down a free doughnut. This experiment is a lie.

Hang on, maybe they were custard-filled doughnuts. This changes everything.

Won’t somebody please think of the calories! *Shudders*

Are we really comparing handing out doughnuts to being outright racially abused? Is that actually what’s going on here?

Some of us just don’t like talking to strangers.

Some of us just don’t like germs.

And some of us can’t eat gluten. Does a gluten intolerance make you a racist?