www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/rupa-huq-jake-berry-keir-starmer-kwasi-kwarteng-labour-b1028459.html
Just when I'm starting to get on board with voting Labour, one of their MPs comes out with something like this.
Ms Huq was said to be sitting next to Labour chairwoman Anneliese Dodds when she made the remarks.
In the audio, Ms Huq could be heard saying: “Superficially he is a black man.
“He went to Eton, I think, he went to a very expensive prep school, all the way through, the top schools in the country.
“If you hear him on the Today programme, you wouldn’t know he is black.”
AIBU?
Rupa Huq
derxa · 27/09/2022 14:42
Am I being unreasonable?
214 votes. Final results.
POLLsst1234 · 27/09/2022 18:12
Oh a nice bit of whataboutery. So she offers an apology because she got caught, so it doesn’t matter anymore.
C8H10N4O2 · 27/09/2022 18:03
Rupa Huq has already offered an unreserved apology btw:
twitter.com/RupaHuq/status/1574791834248876038
It was a shit thing to say. Now how about we discuss the endless comments from Boris and chums on race?
BryceQuinlanTheFirst · 28/09/2022 09:48
My DH is black and feels the same as her
C8H10N4O2 · 28/09/2022 08:16
Its directly relevant to the subject of the thread with the implication that people shouldn't vote Labour because of it so lets compare the behaviour both of individuals and the party.
Rupa Huq made a racist comment - Labour immediately removed the whip, she has apologised directly to Kwarteng and in public for the comments (not how people feel about the comments, the actual comments).
Now lets look at a small selection of comments from the recent leader of the Tory party, all dismissed, excused and laughed off both by Johnson and the party, no penalty incurred at all (not my list incidentally, a commenter elsewhere had grouped them together already):
“tank topped búm boys”
“watermelon smiles”
“ flag-waving piccaninnies,”
“ they chose to “go around looking like letterboxes”
“ the Muslim world being “literally centuries behind”.
“ they have an almost Nigerian interest in money and gadgets of all kinds.”
“ I come across that bunch of black kids, shrieking in the spooky corner by the disused gents,”
“ The interesting thing about his half-caste looks, he decided, was that he didn’t look Negroid.”
There is plenty of racism, sexism and classism on the authoritarian left, just as their is on the right. Currently Starmer is putting a lot more effort into dealing with racism whilst the Tories pretend it doesn't exist and perpetuate class based politics.
sst1234 · 27/09/2022 18:12
Oh a nice bit of whataboutery. So she offers an apology because she got caught, so it doesn’t matter anymore.
C8H10N4O2 · 27/09/2022 18:03
Rupa Huq has already offered an unreserved apology btw:
twitter.com/RupaHuq/status/1574791834248876038
It was a shit thing to say. Now how about we discuss the endless comments from Boris and chums on race?
BryceQuinlanTheFirst · 28/09/2022 09:48
My DH is black and feels the same as her
sst1234 · 27/09/2022 18:36
The fact that she said that you wouldn’t know he was black if you heard him on the radio is beyond insulting. Because of what it implies. She is saying that black people sound a certain way. That they should sound like they are from the ghetto ‘innit bruv’.
These nasty lefties are actually devastated when a Black or Muslim person does well for themselves. Integrates and makes a place for themselves in sectors, jobs, institutions which are traditionally white. It’s because it goes against their narrative. They are never happier than when ethnic minorities are downtrodden victims living upto the stereotypes. They don’t want to pull you up, they want stamp on you harder and tell you where your place is. Because they build their entire cause, reason for being where they are on the victim status of minorities.
Imagine if there was another group of people who systematically wanted to sustain the victim status and poor circumstances of minorities. There is a name for people who treat minorities like this.
Gymrabbit · 28/09/2022 07:49
Lunar270
but there is a big difference between saying that someone isn’t doing anything for black people/Asian people and saying that if they don’t do what they think a person of that race should it makes them white.
why are you friends with such vile racist people?
derxa · 27/09/2022 14:58
LD and Tory but it's time for a change. Just listened to Keir's speech and he sounds very creditable. But he needs to stamp on stuff like this.
VladmirsPoutine · 27/09/2022 14:49
Who were you voting for before recently?
HeckyPeck · 28/09/2022 10:05
Interesting that you haven't replied to any of the comments pointing out that Keir did stamp on it immediately OP.
derxa · 27/09/2022 14:58
LD and Tory but it's time for a change. Just listened to Keir's speech and he sounds very creditable. But he needs to stamp on stuff like this.
VladmirsPoutine · 27/09/2022 14:49
Who were you voting for before recently?
Gymrabbit · 28/09/2022 10:56
Lunar270
Just because people use vile slurs to people of their own race doesn’t mean it’s acceptable.
Rio Ferdinand was fined for using a similar term so the rules as you call them have been made and if you are fine with people calling you a ‘banana’ then that’s up to you of course.
perhaps you are correct that racist isn’t the correct term. Bigoted is perhaps more correct in suggesting that people of one race should be a homogenous mass who all think and behave alike.
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Gymrabbit · 28/09/2022 10:56
Lunar270
Just because people use vile slurs to people of their own race doesn’t mean it’s acceptable.
Rio Ferdinand was fined for using a similar term so the rules as you call them have been made and if you are fine with people calling you a ‘banana’ then that’s up to you of course.
perhaps you are correct that racist isn’t the correct term. Bigoted is perhaps more correct in suggesting that people of one race should be a homogenous mass who all think and behave alike.
HeckyPeck · 28/09/2022 10:05
Interesting that you haven't replied to any of the comments pointing out that Keir did stamp on it immediately OP.
derxa · 27/09/2022 14:58
LD and Tory but it's time for a change. Just listened to Keir's speech and he sounds very creditable. But he needs to stamp on stuff like this.
VladmirsPoutine · 27/09/2022 14:49
Who were you voting for before recently?
Tuscany83 · 28/09/2022 10:09
It was a terrible comment but she's had the whip taken away. Labour have done all they can to deal with this. Unfortunately you get racist idiots in all parties.
Boris Johnson made consistent racist comments and was given the leadership.
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