Your party is on a roll, how hard is it to not be racist on the stage?
Well done Starmer.
Racism is not solely a right-wing issue. To make it so is to absolve ourselves of any responsibility.
Fucking hell, what a state we’re in.
How hard is it to y’know, just not be racist.
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10,000 things you could have hit at, and you chose this, ****ing hell. I swear some people in the Labour Party are looking at how close they are to winning and thinking “actually I don’t want this”
The thing with this is – she didn’t say it privately. She said it on stage, at an event, to a bunch of strangers.
That’s how comfortable she was being racist.
I think this is probably the only move to make – but the door should be kept open for her should she want to apologise.
Of all the things to attack the Tories for. Could have chosen how theyve shat the bed with the economy. Or how because of them more industries weekly are heading towards strike action.
Nah some labour knobhead has to go and be racist.
The chancellor completely fucks his first budget, gives labour the perfect “they only look after the rich” attack line, the pound is plummeting which will increase inflation, and she fucks it up!?
Sack her from the party, she’s clearly inept (much like the chancellor)
Clown. I feel bad for Kier Starmer having to deal with these kinds of idiots.
So right at the moment when the momentum towards Labour is at its strongest, we get some stupid racist comment from one of their MPs. Well done.
Is their a recording of it?
Would love to hear the reaction in the room.
Probably audible response from the crowd.
She literally say he doesn’t speak like a real black person.
Keir has been really good at suspending trouble makers before story grows.
Pretty impressive.
Kier:
“Okay team: you have one job today – don’t say anything racist”
Rupa:
“Fuck that – hold my beer”
Why do a lot of prominent left of centre MPs continually display this bigotry of low expectations? Why does Rupa Huq insist that black people must communicate with others in Pidgin or Multicultural London English only, otherwise their “effnic credentials” will be questioned by the Supreme Board of BAMEs?
The fact she felt utterly comfortable espousing these views on stage to other members of the party shows how commonplace these views must be. Perhaps these people will regret banging the “intersectionality” drum so hard when the rest of us point out that they’re the ones now being racist and classist all at once.
For a party rammed with progressives perpetually obsessed with race ‘equality’, class and a ‘kinder politics’ it sure is filled with a lot of racist snobs with nothing but hate in their hearts. But, we all know Labour only sees minorities the same way they see the working class: useful for as long as they vote the right way and don’t start asking too many questions.
We really do need new parties in this country lmao. Choosing between Tory and Labour is like choosing between a kidney stone and piles. I can’t think of a single MP in parliament I would actually ever consider voting for to be hones. I shall enjoy spoiling my ballot for the nth time.
Interesting that David Lammy , the first you’d expect to hear decrying about racism, is conveniently for all intents and purposes, silent when it comes to a conservative politician. If it were anybody else, he would be in an uproar.
You just knew someone was going to say something racist about Kwasi at some point, it was inevitable. All this will do is fuel the Tories culture war, incredibly stupid comment to have made.
What a fucking stupid thing to say. Hard to argue with suspension.
I wonder if Rupa Huq sees herself as superficially South Asian…?
Hmm does she have the same energy for her fellow Indian priti patel and her immigration policies? Bet it’s easier to go after another POC outside your race.
Why are they so intent on bringing American identity politics to the UK?
My local MP – she led the opposition to block the development of a hotel to replace a dilapidated building, which would have helped the area around East Acton station become less shitty. What a tool.
I hate the whole they don’t sound black, as if blackness has a sound
Labour all you have to do is not fuck up and election is yours you superficial asshats
How quickly they responded to this should resonate with the public, considering how Johnson responded to Patterson and Pincher.
Shockingly black people can be born wealthy and be right wing. Almost as if they’re individuals and not a monolithic group!
And Labour were doing so well FML!
If it were a white person who made these comments there would be far more action taken. That in it’s self is racism
Your brain on identity politics: all minorities are monolithic blocks that automatically agree with mainstream PMC lib takes on everything, or they’re traitors to their kind!
Oh she IS Konnie Huq’s sister! She just looks like her.
Lol. Looking at the context it’s not even like it was some tongue-in-cheek joke. Really fucking stupid and detestable. Being Asian myself and mostly having White friends, being well-spoken, having different interests, liking music that’s not popular with British Asians, not being fully descended from the 50s-60s immigration wave (so your parents are a bit different due to leaving their home country in a different decade and the 50s-60s lot were mostly farmers) and not being lucky enough to have been taught any languages growing up, I’ve had Asian idiots like her (and White people too) make similar comments to myself (ironic, because some of the things viewed as non-Asian in the UK are actually mainstream in South Asia itself, such as rock music, slightly longer hair, being educated and not acting like a knock off Scarface). Only diaspora communities have these weird notions of having to fit into a narrow box to still be considered part of their ethnic group, which end up looking hilarious if they actually travel to and get to know their origin country.
If she’d said “much of his background isn’t typical of Black people in the UK” or something, that’d be fair enough (in the same way that Tony Blair’s experiences aren’t typical of White British people or Sunak and his family story in many ways aren’t the most typical for an Asian).
She should be kicked out the party permanently and removed as an MP wtf.
God its like half the party is made up of fucking children.
The papers going to have a field day with thid. They’re looking for any distraction from the government right now.
To be fair to Huq, she has apologised directly to Kwarteng, and I see that she is pretty much getting universal condemnation for her words.
But I think everyone is underestimating just how sincerely statements like hers are believed by a significant and growing cohort of people in the country, and in the wider Anglophone world. It is very easy to say what she said was racist, and assert (correctly) that a person’s ethnic identity has nothing to do with what they are like as a person.
But Huq’s expressed views are increasingly common, and reflect what I see as a very dysfunctional belief structure about identity, that requires pushback by people who care about reasonable discourse.
In effect, Huq intuitively believes in a distinction between a person’s material existence, and their “identity”. “Identity” in this case refers to how well a person enacts the role that is deemed most suitable/appropriate for someone with their material characteristics.
This is how Biden can say “If you vote for Trump, you ain’t black”, or how Pete Buttigieg can be described as “straight gay”, or how you see terms like “politically black”. The idea that you can be one thing materially, and another thing by dint of some subjective vibe, attitude or demeanour is a recipe for infinite discord.
I am glad Labour is taking this seriously as comments like this are as racist as fuck
The idea that you are not really black unless you speak a certain way or think a certain way is despicable
Labour immediately condemned the remarks and took action.
She said a stupid racist thing and I just can’t believe her shitty judgement. However… she could have just said Kwarteng is obscenely privileged and his policies will likely hurt those in his community. He’s already a dogshit chancellor. That would have done. Glad Labour took appropriate action
If anyone’s curious as to what was said:
During a Q&A session, she said: “He’s superficially, he’s, a black man but again he’s got more in common… he went to Eton, he went to a very expensive prep school, all the way through top schools in the country.
“If you hear him on the Today programme you wouldn’t know he’s black.”
“… making the comments on Monday evening at a fringe event entitled What’s Next for Labour’s Agenda on Race.”
C’mon it’s not hard to *read* the crowd with an event title like that!
Racist piece of shit she is, hopefully never allowed back in the Labour party.
But aren’t Labour all about equality and fairness? It couldn’t possibly be true? But that would mean… They are as rotten as the Tories? No way!
She’s an absolute idiot. I don’t support Kwasi or the Tories but why am I not surprised someone already brought his racial background into this? For fucks sake.
Does anyone else agree that this is one of the worst forms of modern racism? To say that being a financially successful, highly educated black person is somehow betraying “blackness”. That somehow to be ‘truly’ black you have to speak and act in a certain way and that you can’t be wealthy and successful? These type of attitudes make my skin crawl.
David Lammy’s reply also wasn’t great saying that the comments “were unfortunate.”
Lammy was never a Corbyn supporter, yet he isn’t even able to stand up against overt racism when it could jeopardize Keir’s run.
If you don’t vote for me you ain’t black. The Biden doctrine.
Just Labour making sure they’re completely unelectable ahead of a possible election.
Kick her out. Zero tolerance policy to racism. Even if Kwarteng is a kunt.
Just for context, this is the same Rupa Huq who has had to resign from Labour Friends of Israel for antisemitism and who has been accused of “trivialising racism” for defending antisemitic comments made by another Labour MP. She’s a racist, a recidivist and she doesn’t belong in polite society, let alone a government in waiting. These are exactly the kind of vacuous comments that allow the Conservatives to deflect from their horrific mini-budget.
As a side note, it’s sad that people like Huq see everything through the lens of race.
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Your party is on a roll, how hard is it to not be racist on the stage?
Well done Starmer.
Racism is not solely a right-wing issue. To make it so is to absolve ourselves of any responsibility.
Fucking hell, what a state we’re in.
How hard is it to y’know, just not be racist.
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10,000 things you could have hit at, and you chose this, ****ing hell. I swear some people in the Labour Party are looking at how close they are to winning and thinking “actually I don’t want this”
The thing with this is – she didn’t say it privately. She said it on stage, at an event, to a bunch of strangers.
That’s how comfortable she was being racist.
I think this is probably the only move to make – but the door should be kept open for her should she want to apologise.
Of all the things to attack the Tories for. Could have chosen how theyve shat the bed with the economy. Or how because of them more industries weekly are heading towards strike action.
Nah some labour knobhead has to go and be racist.
The chancellor completely fucks his first budget, gives labour the perfect “they only look after the rich” attack line, the pound is plummeting which will increase inflation, and she fucks it up!?
Sack her from the party, she’s clearly inept (much like the chancellor)
Clown. I feel bad for Kier Starmer having to deal with these kinds of idiots.
So right at the moment when the momentum towards Labour is at its strongest, we get some stupid racist comment from one of their MPs. Well done.
Is their a recording of it?
Would love to hear the reaction in the room.
Probably audible response from the crowd.
She literally say he doesn’t speak like a real black person.
Keir has been really good at suspending trouble makers before story grows.
Pretty impressive.
Kier:
“Okay team: you have one job today – don’t say anything racist”
Rupa:
“Fuck that – hold my beer”
Why do a lot of prominent left of centre MPs continually display this bigotry of low expectations? Why does Rupa Huq insist that black people must communicate with others in Pidgin or Multicultural London English only, otherwise their “effnic credentials” will be questioned by the Supreme Board of BAMEs?
The fact she felt utterly comfortable espousing these views on stage to other members of the party shows how commonplace these views must be. Perhaps these people will regret banging the “intersectionality” drum so hard when the rest of us point out that they’re the ones now being racist and classist all at once.
For a party rammed with progressives perpetually obsessed with race ‘equality’, class and a ‘kinder politics’ it sure is filled with a lot of racist snobs with nothing but hate in their hearts. But, we all know Labour only sees minorities the same way they see the working class: useful for as long as they vote the right way and don’t start asking too many questions.
We really do need new parties in this country lmao. Choosing between Tory and Labour is like choosing between a kidney stone and piles. I can’t think of a single MP in parliament I would actually ever consider voting for to be hones. I shall enjoy spoiling my ballot for the nth time.
Interesting that David Lammy , the first you’d expect to hear decrying about racism, is conveniently for all intents and purposes, silent when it comes to a conservative politician. If it were anybody else, he would be in an uproar.
You just knew someone was going to say something racist about Kwasi at some point, it was inevitable. All this will do is fuel the Tories culture war, incredibly stupid comment to have made.
What a fucking stupid thing to say. Hard to argue with suspension.
I wonder if Rupa Huq sees herself as superficially South Asian…?
Hmm does she have the same energy for her fellow Indian priti patel and her immigration policies? Bet it’s easier to go after another POC outside your race.
Why are they so intent on bringing American identity politics to the UK?
My local MP – she led the opposition to block the development of a hotel to replace a dilapidated building, which would have helped the area around East Acton station become less shitty. What a tool.
I hate the whole they don’t sound black, as if blackness has a sound
Labour all you have to do is not fuck up and election is yours you superficial asshats
How quickly they responded to this should resonate with the public, considering how Johnson responded to Patterson and Pincher.
She has form for racism:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/24/diverse-commons-white-chairs-select-committees-black-minority-ethnic-mp
Shockingly black people can be born wealthy and be right wing. Almost as if they’re individuals and not a monolithic group!
And Labour were doing so well FML!
If it were a white person who made these comments there would be far more action taken. That in it’s self is racism
Your brain on identity politics: all minorities are monolithic blocks that automatically agree with mainstream PMC lib takes on everything, or they’re traitors to their kind!
Oh she IS Konnie Huq’s sister! She just looks like her.
Lol. Looking at the context it’s not even like it was some tongue-in-cheek joke. Really fucking stupid and detestable. Being Asian myself and mostly having White friends, being well-spoken, having different interests, liking music that’s not popular with British Asians, not being fully descended from the 50s-60s immigration wave (so your parents are a bit different due to leaving their home country in a different decade and the 50s-60s lot were mostly farmers) and not being lucky enough to have been taught any languages growing up, I’ve had Asian idiots like her (and White people too) make similar comments to myself (ironic, because some of the things viewed as non-Asian in the UK are actually mainstream in South Asia itself, such as rock music, slightly longer hair, being educated and not acting like a knock off Scarface). Only diaspora communities have these weird notions of having to fit into a narrow box to still be considered part of their ethnic group, which end up looking hilarious if they actually travel to and get to know their origin country.
If she’d said “much of his background isn’t typical of Black people in the UK” or something, that’d be fair enough (in the same way that Tony Blair’s experiences aren’t typical of White British people or Sunak and his family story in many ways aren’t the most typical for an Asian).
She should be kicked out the party permanently and removed as an MP wtf.
God its like half the party is made up of fucking children.
The papers going to have a field day with thid. They’re looking for any distraction from the government right now.
To be fair to Huq, she has apologised directly to Kwarteng, and I see that she is pretty much getting universal condemnation for her words.
But I think everyone is underestimating just how sincerely statements like hers are believed by a significant and growing cohort of people in the country, and in the wider Anglophone world. It is very easy to say what she said was racist, and assert (correctly) that a person’s ethnic identity has nothing to do with what they are like as a person.
But Huq’s expressed views are increasingly common, and reflect what I see as a very dysfunctional belief structure about identity, that requires pushback by people who care about reasonable discourse.
In effect, Huq intuitively believes in a distinction between a person’s material existence, and their “identity”. “Identity” in this case refers to how well a person enacts the role that is deemed most suitable/appropriate for someone with their material characteristics.
This is how Biden can say “If you vote for Trump, you ain’t black”, or how Pete Buttigieg can be described as “straight gay”, or how you see terms like “politically black”. The idea that you can be one thing materially, and another thing by dint of some subjective vibe, attitude or demeanour is a recipe for infinite discord.
I am glad Labour is taking this seriously as comments like this are as racist as fuck
The idea that you are not really black unless you speak a certain way or think a certain way is despicable
Labour immediately condemned the remarks and took action.
She said a stupid racist thing and I just can’t believe her shitty judgement. However… she could have just said Kwarteng is obscenely privileged and his policies will likely hurt those in his community. He’s already a dogshit chancellor. That would have done. Glad Labour took appropriate action
If anyone’s curious as to what was said:
During a Q&A session, she said: “He’s superficially, he’s, a black man but again he’s got more in common… he went to Eton, he went to a very expensive prep school, all the way through top schools in the country.
“If you hear him on the Today programme you wouldn’t know he’s black.”
“… making the comments on Monday evening at a fringe event entitled What’s Next for Labour’s Agenda on Race.”
C’mon it’s not hard to *read* the crowd with an event title like that!
Racist piece of shit she is, hopefully never allowed back in the Labour party.
But aren’t Labour all about equality and fairness? It couldn’t possibly be true? But that would mean… They are as rotten as the Tories? No way!
She’s an absolute idiot. I don’t support Kwasi or the Tories but why am I not surprised someone already brought his racial background into this? For fucks sake.
Does anyone else agree that this is one of the worst forms of modern racism? To say that being a financially successful, highly educated black person is somehow betraying “blackness”. That somehow to be ‘truly’ black you have to speak and act in a certain way and that you can’t be wealthy and successful? These type of attitudes make my skin crawl.
David Lammy’s reply also wasn’t great saying that the comments “were unfortunate.”
Lammy was never a Corbyn supporter, yet he isn’t even able to stand up against overt racism when it could jeopardize Keir’s run.
If you don’t vote for me you ain’t black. The Biden doctrine.
Just Labour making sure they’re completely unelectable ahead of a possible election.
Kick her out. Zero tolerance policy to racism. Even if Kwarteng is a kunt.
Just for context, this is the same Rupa Huq who has had to resign from Labour Friends of Israel for antisemitism and who has been accused of “trivialising racism” for defending antisemitic comments made by another Labour MP. She’s a racist, a recidivist and she doesn’t belong in polite society, let alone a government in waiting. These are exactly the kind of vacuous comments that allow the Conservatives to deflect from their horrific mini-budget.
As a side note, it’s sad that people like Huq see everything through the lens of race.