So to paraphrase ‘he speaks well, for a black man’ and he’s not a *real* black man because he doesn’t fit the stereotype I have in my head’
What an unequivocally stupid fucking thing to say. I am already ready for the headlines spinning this into another ‘racist’ attack to gain some ground on labour.
Sack her, and move on, condemn it as it’s openly racist.
> He went to Eton, I think, he went to a very expensive prep school, all the way through, the top schools in the country.
Huq went to Cambridge, so I guess elite education is only for *some* POC
If Sir Kier’s got any guts, he will kick her right out on her racist arse.
C’mon, show that you have no fear, and actually fucking care.
Disgusting comments like this are all too common from the left. You see comments similar to Huq’s on this sub about Patel, Badenoch, Sunak and Braverman too. Mods never remove them or ban the racist commenters who type them out.
If Starmer doesn’t immediately kick this woman out, it adds to growing evidence that the Conservatives are actually less racist than Labour.
When it’s mentioned that the Tories have way more ethnic minorities in positions of power than Blair would’ve ever allowed, or that the Tory cabinet has more ethnic minorities than the Labour shadow cabinet, the left only say “diversity is good, but not _that_ kind of diversity”.
Jesus Christ i hate this line of thinking, Biden’s ‘if you dont vote for me you aint black’ was the worst.
Look, Suze, being black isn’t about the colour of your skin, it’s about vibe, about hanging out, kicking back, smoking a number, fighting prejudice and negative stereotypes wherever you find them, yeah? I’m down with all that, is Kwarteng? I mean, what’s Kwarteng done for black people lately
And here labour go shooting them selves in the foot again despite having the perfect platform not to and succeed against opposition. I’m no politician but is it really that hard to not fuck up against THIS Tory regime?
It’s really quite impressive just how much dogma and belief of innocence these politicians have in their ways despite being just as bad as their opposition in different ways, a story that’ll never change.
Oh Lord.
I despair. I don’t know why so many of my fellow left-wingers can’t help themselves with this stuff.
How hard is it not to say idiotic things like this?
And like clockwork Labour do an own goal. Dumb twats.
Jesus christ. Sack her Starmer and move on.
How do you say something like this and not realise you are being horrifically racist?
Yes, Kwasi is a tool. Don’t bring race into it though you fucking limp noodle
Edit: Chad Starmer with the suspension
I read the quote and it’s just shockingly appalling and racist. I get nasty people telling me things like “you speak so well” and similar jibes and it makes me sick considering all the hard work I’ve put in throughout my life. We’re not all undereducated, poor and only speak in inner city vernacular. What nasty piece of work. She needs to go.
If this was Boris Johnsons government this would be swept under the bulging rug in seconds.
Oops, looked like Labour might actually have a shot in the next election. Better do a racism to help skupper the eternal opposition’s chances.
This kind of identiterianism is the absolute bane of the left.
‘kinnell, they still have another day of desperately trying to hold their tongues left as well
This is a great example of what is sometimes called “progressive essentialism”. Ostensibly, the left should be opposed to all forms of essentialism – especially racial essentialism.
Nevertheless, the current trends/fashions in progressive thought kind of demand that they think in an essentialist way for their worldview to make sense (to them).
Almost everyone can effortlessly understand that a person’s racial identity has nothing to do with what they are like as a person… except those on the far right and, increasingly, sadly, on parts of the progressive left where people – especially people of colour – are obliged to act almost as avatars for their entire group, and behave, think and speak in certain ways to fulfil the “role” they are seen as having to play.
We should all emphatically say “no” whenever we hear anything like this.
Superficially Black? So, a progressive invokes White supremacist rhetoric to demonstrate that she is infact *not* racist and her dehumanising of Chancellor does *not* constitute racism because he’s a Conservative. Minorities are *not* a monolith, no Black person is obligated to subscribe to the ‘rectitude’ this woman has ascribed to his skin tone.
Labour nor its policies are an institution that by virtue of dark skin, a benighted Black person must venerate as their saviour or be condemned by a vituperative racist because he does not comply.
This overzealous dogmatism to identity politics and the obvious dispensation she thinks absolves her of all repercussions of being a racist must be eradicated. It’s detrimental to minorities of all political parties.
The Chancellor is not guilty of betraying of his race which is what the implication is. She’d be surprised just how many minorities are financially and even socially conservative.
Apparently, she has now been suspended.
Good.
She must apologise. We cannot have racism like this in our party
I’d have just called him a toffee nosed twat. Has a pan ethnic appeal.
I like Kier and most of the labour front bench, I’m not 100% sure who or if I’ll vote in the next election and it’s things like this that make me mistrustful of labour. There seems to be a section in Labour who view everything through race whilst being quite racist themselves. I think we need less of this culture wars type of thing not more.
I hope Kier sorts this asap and sends a strong message. I really don’t want to vote for a party that has extremist and racist views is that really too much to ask?
It’s a very telling statement from Huq. The mask has slipped and she has showed not only what she thinks black people should be, but what white people are, or should be. She would struggle to be more backward and bigoted on both fronts. Labour in the long run will be so much better off if Starmer can quickly show he is moving the party behind this sort of partisan American identity politics nonsense
Slow clap you handed them another distraction racist muppet
Typical crab mentality bullshit from typical minority majority areas. If it’s not white people being racist it’s minorities themselves being racist to each other. What a joke everything is. The guy is a twat but these comments were unfortunately inevitable.
Its the same as when people assume, just because your (non-white) family immigrated however many generations ago – you should, by default, support immigration and have left-wing politics. Assuming that all people of a certain background should think and act the same way is essentially racist.
Oh gods, not a fucking coconut comment on a national stage. Fire her and move on.
This is disgraceful. It’s not “Ill judged” . He’s not a real black man because he’s educated ?? It doesn’t get much worse.
Happily, Starmer has set the precedent for how he treats racists, when he purged the anti semites.
I’m sure he’ll apply the same policy, evenly, to his political allies, and not just his political rivals.
This isn’t a shock and a problem the Left Wing have always had.
The belief that because you are any kind of minority you must be left wing and if your not then clearly your not really X/Y/Z.
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Wow. So how, exactly, are black people supposed to act?
This is no different calling somebody a bounty, a coconut, or an Oreo.
It’s triple threaded racism.
It asserts that white people think/act one way, brown/black people think/act another and that you cannot possibly be divergent against those norms.
Disgraceful behaviour from Huq
Audio here for anyone interested
https://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/status/1574731802182402048?s=20&t=uMa0bw7xCYjJxU29s7ULWw
So to paraphrase ‘he speaks well, for a black man’ and he’s not a *real* black man because he doesn’t fit the stereotype I have in my head’
What an unequivocally stupid fucking thing to say. I am already ready for the headlines spinning this into another ‘racist’ attack to gain some ground on labour.
Sack her, and move on, condemn it as it’s openly racist.
> He went to Eton, I think, he went to a very expensive prep school, all the way through, the top schools in the country.
Huq went to Cambridge, so I guess elite education is only for *some* POC
If Sir Kier’s got any guts, he will kick her right out on her racist arse.
C’mon, show that you have no fear, and actually fucking care.
Disgusting comments like this are all too common from the left. You see comments similar to Huq’s on this sub about Patel, Badenoch, Sunak and Braverman too. Mods never remove them or ban the racist commenters who type them out.
If Starmer doesn’t immediately kick this woman out, it adds to growing evidence that the Conservatives are actually less racist than Labour.
When it’s mentioned that the Tories have way more ethnic minorities in positions of power than Blair would’ve ever allowed, or that the Tory cabinet has more ethnic minorities than the Labour shadow cabinet, the left only say “diversity is good, but not _that_ kind of diversity”.
Jesus Christ i hate this line of thinking, Biden’s ‘if you dont vote for me you aint black’ was the worst.
Look, Suze, being black isn’t about the colour of your skin, it’s about vibe, about hanging out, kicking back, smoking a number, fighting prejudice and negative stereotypes wherever you find them, yeah? I’m down with all that, is Kwarteng? I mean, what’s Kwarteng done for black people lately
And here labour go shooting them selves in the foot again despite having the perfect platform not to and succeed against opposition. I’m no politician but is it really that hard to not fuck up against THIS Tory regime?
It’s really quite impressive just how much dogma and belief of innocence these politicians have in their ways despite being just as bad as their opposition in different ways, a story that’ll never change.
Oh Lord.
I despair. I don’t know why so many of my fellow left-wingers can’t help themselves with this stuff.
How hard is it not to say idiotic things like this?
And like clockwork Labour do an own goal. Dumb twats.
Jesus christ. Sack her Starmer and move on.
How do you say something like this and not realise you are being horrifically racist?
Yes, Kwasi is a tool. Don’t bring race into it though you fucking limp noodle
Edit: Chad Starmer with the suspension
I read the quote and it’s just shockingly appalling and racist. I get nasty people telling me things like “you speak so well” and similar jibes and it makes me sick considering all the hard work I’ve put in throughout my life. We’re not all undereducated, poor and only speak in inner city vernacular. What nasty piece of work. She needs to go.
If this was Boris Johnsons government this would be swept under the bulging rug in seconds.
Oops, looked like Labour might actually have a shot in the next election. Better do a racism to help skupper the eternal opposition’s chances.
This kind of identiterianism is the absolute bane of the left.
‘kinnell, they still have another day of desperately trying to hold their tongues left as well
This is a great example of what is sometimes called “progressive essentialism”. Ostensibly, the left should be opposed to all forms of essentialism – especially racial essentialism.
Nevertheless, the current trends/fashions in progressive thought kind of demand that they think in an essentialist way for their worldview to make sense (to them).
Almost everyone can effortlessly understand that a person’s racial identity has nothing to do with what they are like as a person… except those on the far right and, increasingly, sadly, on parts of the progressive left where people – especially people of colour – are obliged to act almost as avatars for their entire group, and behave, think and speak in certain ways to fulfil the “role” they are seen as having to play.
We should all emphatically say “no” whenever we hear anything like this.
Superficially Black? So, a progressive invokes White supremacist rhetoric to demonstrate that she is infact *not* racist and her dehumanising of Chancellor does *not* constitute racism because he’s a Conservative. Minorities are *not* a monolith, no Black person is obligated to subscribe to the ‘rectitude’ this woman has ascribed to his skin tone.
Labour nor its policies are an institution that by virtue of dark skin, a benighted Black person must venerate as their saviour or be condemned by a vituperative racist because he does not comply.
This overzealous dogmatism to identity politics and the obvious dispensation she thinks absolves her of all repercussions of being a racist must be eradicated. It’s detrimental to minorities of all political parties.
The Chancellor is not guilty of betraying of his race which is what the implication is. She’d be surprised just how many minorities are financially and even socially conservative.
Apparently, she has now been suspended.
Good.
She must apologise. We cannot have racism like this in our party
I’d have just called him a toffee nosed twat. Has a pan ethnic appeal.
I like Kier and most of the labour front bench, I’m not 100% sure who or if I’ll vote in the next election and it’s things like this that make me mistrustful of labour. There seems to be a section in Labour who view everything through race whilst being quite racist themselves. I think we need less of this culture wars type of thing not more.
I hope Kier sorts this asap and sends a strong message. I really don’t want to vote for a party that has extremist and racist views is that really too much to ask?
It’s a very telling statement from Huq. The mask has slipped and she has showed not only what she thinks black people should be, but what white people are, or should be. She would struggle to be more backward and bigoted on both fronts. Labour in the long run will be so much better off if Starmer can quickly show he is moving the party behind this sort of partisan American identity politics nonsense
Slow clap you handed them another distraction racist muppet
Typical crab mentality bullshit from typical minority majority areas. If it’s not white people being racist it’s minorities themselves being racist to each other. What a joke everything is. The guy is a twat but these comments were unfortunately inevitable.
Its the same as when people assume, just because your (non-white) family immigrated however many generations ago – you should, by default, support immigration and have left-wing politics. Assuming that all people of a certain background should think and act the same way is essentially racist.
Oh gods, not a fucking coconut comment on a national stage. Fire her and move on.
This is disgraceful. It’s not “Ill judged” . He’s not a real black man because he’s educated ?? It doesn’t get much worse.
Happily, Starmer has set the precedent for how he treats racists, when he purged the anti semites.
I’m sure he’ll apply the same policy, evenly, to his political allies, and not just his political rivals.
This isn’t a shock and a problem the Left Wing have always had.
The belief that because you are any kind of minority you must be left wing and if your not then clearly your not really X/Y/Z.
please stop doing stupid shit and possibly costing yourself voters labour.
I didnt like her but Priti Patell got the same shit. Minorities can hold their own political beliefs. Get over it.
If he ain’t bustin rhymes wearing gold chains he ain’t black.
He was successful in school too? Bro that’s white people shit
Labour. Its own worse enemy. Starmers speech completely overshadowed by this woman. When will the party learn that they can’t keep scoring own goals.
Labour responding to Tory own goals with one of their own as per usual I see…
Funny how this comes out to diminish the impact of a really good labour conference… Astounding timing.
So disappointing that we dont have a credible opponent to the Tories, why do Labour keep letting themselves down like this?
How do blatantly racist people make it through to become MPs in these parties?
Everytime Labour start doing well they sabotage themselves somehow.
I think the issue is that he is 100% cunt. His race shouldn’t even need to be discussed
Can she not just be like everyone else, and call him a prick without being racist?
Racist piece of shit she is, hopefully never allowed back in the Labour party.
What she did was a slightly more polite way of calling Kwasi an “Oreo” – The old slur for black people who were seen as being “white on the inside”.
Yikes. Ethnically diverse people get treated like they can’t think for themselves. Does Labour feel entitled to their vote?