Priti Patel

[VeganFeminism]

I'm not sure if feminism is the right place for this, but, at the same time, I think that the treatment of Priti Patel has a lot to do with her sex, so...

Firstly, i'm not really a fan of Patel's politics. Whilst I am politically homeless, I am not a Tory.

However, I find the treatment of Priti Patel to be quite unique, and not in a good way. A few months ago, there were countless stories about her being a "bully". I'm not sure if she is or not, but i do know hat her male counterparts rarely get the same insults thrown at them.

Yesterday, she received a letter from several Labour members (twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1271075607955288064). The letter criticises the way that Patel has discussed her experiences of racism in the UK. It asks her to reflect on her words and impact. I found this letter incredibly patronising. Again, I doubt it would have been sent to her if she were male.

@VeganFeminism

I'm not sure if feminism is the right place for this, but, at the same time, I think that the treatment of Priti Patel has a lot to do with her sex, so...

Firstly, i'm not really a fan of Patel's politics. Whilst I am politically homeless, I am not a Tory.

However, I find the treatment of Priti Patel to be quite unique, and not in a good way. A few months ago, there were countless stories about her being a "bully". I'm not sure if she is or not, but i do know hat her male counterparts rarely get the same insults thrown at them.

Yesterday, she received a letter from several Labour members (twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1271075607955288064). The letter criticises the way that Patel has discussed her experiences of racism in the UK. It asks her to reflect on her words and impact. I found this letter incredibly patronising. Again, I doubt it would have been sent to her if she were male.

A lot of those Labour Mps are women

Priti Patel is being targetted because Labour doesn’t really care about the Hindu / Sikh vote (if it ever has). If Sajid Javid had been the one making these comments then he would have been treated very differently. Her treatment by Labour has made a lot of Hindu and Sikh voters reassess their support.

Honestly as a Hindu woman who has experienced racism I think Labour MPs had no right to try and police her. She and other MPs are being paid to do right by their constituents by stand by their beliefs — encouraging a load of MP to ignore or minimise non-Black racism when we live in a time where Muslims of all races are being discriminated against is dangerous.

Labour look far worse here than the Torys do

Priti Patel isn’t just picked on because she is a women it’s because she is Asian too

She isn’t the down trodden Asian women who many white feminists like to feel sorry for and pateonize

The cartoon in The Guardian was absolutely appalling that she felt offended and they decided to still keep it in (and the reason why was explained)

I can see her being a future party leader. So much for us liberals the Tory’s shall probably be on their third female leader and have an ethnic minority leader and we are meant to be more progressive

Mmm food for thought

Yes I agree that many feel her place is on the left of politics

Anything else is because she has internalised racism or it’s because she hasn’t experienced racism

She most certainly has and still does