I'm having problems jumping on the knee-jerk, racism bandwagon in respect of Rupa Huq's comments about KamiKwasi Kwarteng being 'superficially black'.
I think what she meant was that as black people have been, and are still, suffering from oppression, they should be left wing. That may be factually wrong, but it's not necessarily racist in and of itself. It's similar to the accusation of someone being a class traitor.
Yes, Starmer has jumped on her immediately, but I think that was a spoiling tactic to prevent the Tories making hay from her comment - he had no choice, knowing how the comment would be weaponised.
I reserve judgement until such time as she explains what she meant.
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Agreed, the left has got itself into a right mess on the subjects of racism and gender politics, it seems to have abandoned it's traditional "common sense" approach and reverted to pure "twitter pile-on" populism.
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