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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/does-nobody-talk-racist-abuse-aimed-priti-patel/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/does-nobody-talk-raci... https:/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/does-nobody-talk-racist-abuse-aimed-priti-patel/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/does-nobody-talk-raci... https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-do-those-who-abuse-priti-patel-get-a-free-pass- https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-do-those-who-abuse-p... https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/howard-beckett-labour-suspends-union-tweet-priti-patel-deported-b935123.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/howard-beckett-labo... I think whatever your politics we think we should stop and challenge when angry white men are calling for a white minority woman with immigrant parents to be deported, or similar obvious whistles or abuse, because they don't like her opinions.

pydry 5y ago
It's completely self evident that as the person responsible for untold suffering through the UK's increasingly punitive immigration policies they'd like her to see her face a taste of her own medicine. It's equally predictable that the British right and far right would try to deflect this criticism by playing the race card. I think whatever your politics we should stop and challenge when an angry white man tries to use cynical, performative, pearl clutching trumped up false accusations of racism to deflect criticism away from vicious and entirely real kind of racism they enthusiastically endorse.
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  > It's completely self evident that as the person responsible for untold suffering through the UK's increasingly punitive immigration policies they'd like her to see her face a taste of her own medicine. Yes that was obvious to anyone with common sense. But when challenged they denied that's what they ever meant! Dog whistling. And rightfully called out as so by others on the left.
  - pydry 5y ago
    He didn't deny that was what he meant. It was "called out" by Chris Bryant - a member of Labour Friends for Israel and thus very much a pretend member "of the left". This is the same group that sent a delegation to Isaac Herzog, a party leader who is unapologetically and publicly racist to apologize for "anti-semitism" in the Labour party that barely existed. This is, again, how racists protect each other - with false accusations of racism against anti-racists.

pydry 5y ago

It's completely self evident that as the person responsible for untold suffering through the UK's increasingly punitive immigration policies they'd like her to see her face a taste of her own medicine. It's equally predictable that the British right and far right would try to deflect this criticism by playing the race card. I think whatever your politics we should stop and challenge when an angry white man tries to use cynical, performative, pearl clutching trumped up false accusations of racism to deflect criticism away from vicious and entirely real kind of racism they enthusiastically endorse.

chrisseaton 5y ago
> It's completely self evident that as the person responsible for untold suffering through the UK's increasingly punitive immigration policies they'd like her to see her face a taste of her own medicine. Yes that was obvious to anyone with common sense. But when challenged they denied that's what they ever meant! Dog whistling. And rightfully called out as so by others on the left.
- pydry 5y ago
  He didn't deny that was what he meant. It was "called out" by Chris Bryant - a member of Labour Friends for Israel and thus very much a pretend member "of the left". This is the same group that sent a delegation to Isaac Herzog, a party leader who is unapologetically and publicly racist to apologize for "anti-semitism" in the Labour party that barely existed. This is, again, how racists protect each other - with false accusations of racism against anti-racists.