Lack of coverage- first ever ethnic minority PM

[WomanHere]

Cannot believe the lack of media interest in this. The next PM of the UK will either be a woman or a man of South Asian ethnicity. This is a massive thing yet the only coverage I’ve seen relates to potential tax policies of the next PM. It will be a historic first, I am excited to be alive and experience this moment in history. AIBU to be amazed at the bland media coverage!?

You OP, are one of societies biggest problems at the moment.

I don't either
how does it "define whiteness"?

Why?

They look for division, rather than seek to heal it.

I'd go further and say they create division.

Ii think if you’ve suffered racism then it’s hard to go yeah it’s all sorted now. Because it isn’t.
BLM made a huge difference and I really did feel hopeful that the tide was changing. Prior to that racism was an ethnic minority problem- ime it was a very rare white person who would stick up for you if they witnessed anything.
now yes I see calling out a little more. There’s still a long way to go and seeing a potential brown PM is a big thing imo.

Harriet and you. It’s maybe worth asking a friend to check your posts before you try to mock someone else’s English.

Margaret Beckett - leader between John Smith and Tony Blair.

No, only acting as leader while they got on with the job of electing another man.

Absolutely

Don't know where to start with your negative generalisation about white people. Unreal. You don't even see the irony, do you?

OP fucked off after first post. Another successful wind-up thread in the bag.

Tories will push and push back with bigotry against everything until they cant get away with it anymore. Gay people in the 80s, single mums the early 90s, gay marraige the 2000s and women/gay people in the army, working and lower class people forever. They push back until it becomes socially unacceptable to do so.

Of course you still have Chope amd Davies in the tory party (nobody answered my question about them yet I see) still trying to block laws against upskirting, female genital mutilation, domestic violence and sexual assault.

They 'know what a woman is' because they despise them.

Davies has also said 'black people are "more likely to be murderers" and filibustered against bill which made parking free for carers

"in December 2016, Davies talked for 78 minutes in an unsuccessful attempt to derail a Bill designed to bring Britain in line with the Istanbul Convention whose purported aim is to protect women against violence. He argued that the Bill was "sexist against men"

So I will ask again why supposed feminists support a party which has no issue giving this man a job in their equalities committee, and why they think that one of their latest bunch of halfwits being a woman or of asian heritage cancels this out?

Tell me about the irony please.

That is my lived experience. And these are my residual feelings. I do see there’s been a beginning of sea change. Not done yet. That’s all.

I see it in a similar way to the current ad for anti sexism ‘not her problem ’ The ad states Sexist hate isn’t a woman problem it’s a man problem. Everyone stands together to change things. That’s the way forward.

It is not fair to say, most white people would have not stepped in with regards to racism. That is stereotyping and discriminatory. That is why I said your generalisation was ironic.

At risk of going off at a tangent, I note that the MP for Riyadh and Moscow Shrewsbury and Atcham voted against the gay marriage bill, before leaving his wife for his male lover who he married in 2019.

Have you had experience of racism?
Have you recognised it and stepped in? That’s the first part- recognising it.

i saw no one step on when I had racist slurs shouted at me again and again.
no one stepped in and offered comfort when I was spat on on the bus. And they’re the obvious ones. There’s lots of ‘minor’ things said (without intent I kindly think, they Know no better) but it does feel othering.

Even on line dating- men seeking ‘exotic’ women. Until they heard my broad northern accent that didn’t fit in with their stereotype!

As I said there has been a notable sea change at long last but it’s been a long time coming.

Wasnt he that completely insane tory mp who believed in homeopathy, wanted to bring back blasphemy laws and was a polish nationalist?

That's the one. Polish nationalist who loves Putin and has spent £22000 of taxpayers money on Polish lessons. And yet people tell me with evidence he is not the worst Tory MP.

Exactly. He's a person. An individual. Not just 'a South Asian bloke'.

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