Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Politics
Original poster

Not all cultures equally valid, says Kemi Badenoch

127 replies

candlewhickgreen · 29/09/2024 12:34

Badenoch when talking about immigration has spoken about not all cultures being equal. By that she meant that we have to be careful about who we let into the country and to make sure they respect Western values.

We take in a lot of immigrants from India for example, which has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world and some of the highest rates of sexual assault.

Is she suggesting that we stop accepting people from India and similar countries or is she suggesting that they are indoctrinated into Western values?

We bring in a lot of immigrants to do essential jobs such as work in the NHS, so how does that work exactly? Are they going to be sent to a Western values bootcamp?

Is this just dog whistle politics? She knows this is a hot topic at the moment and that there is a lot of tension around certain cultures in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/29/kemi-badenoch-not-all-cultures-equally-valid-immigration

OP posts:
Bromptotoo · 29/09/2024 12:47

She's also suggested we take too many people who 'hate Israel'. When asked if she meant Muslims she of course denied it.

Personally I thin there are a lot of reasons to hate Israel's governments and not just the current one or stuff since last October.

Beenthereagainandagain · 29/09/2024 12:41

I suppose there’s a big difference between what I see as “culture”: language, food, art etc etc which should rightly be preserved and valued and someone saying that misogyny or denial of basic human rights to certain categories of people is “culture”
it’s just the patriarchy in its usual disguise.