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The New Face of White Supremacy
The Conservative Party (UK) has elected a new leader, Kemi Badenoch. Born in London to Nigerian parents, she was raised in Nigeria and the USA (she actually worked at a McDonald’s!!) before coming to the UK at age 16. It is officially OK for enlightened leftist opinion to say hateful and racist things about her because she is a Tory:
- “the most prominent member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class”
- [the chief representative of] ‘white supremacy in black face’
- “shining ebony example that the Psychosis Of Whiteness is not reserved for those with white skin”
(See this by Brendan O’Neill in The Spectator on the unhinged reaction.)
At what point does the entire Western world realize that leftism has become a pathological mental state that holds the victim hostage by replacing genuine grounds for self-worth and self-esteem with membership in an empty narcissistic cult threatened by reality and anyone who accepts reality?
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According to my history books, over two thousand years and counting.
Well …
Those three ought to do it.
At least we know we’re not the only ones who have these lunatics. My heart goes out to Badenoch; hopefully she’s not thin-skinned.
She could not be a shrinking violet and have it made it this far.
That one in particular. There’s definitely psychosis involved here, but the author needs a mirror to see it.
If ever there was a better
DIEDEI candidate for further suppression of meaningful beneficial politics, I have yet to encounter them. (And I am in California.)According to Wikipedia, her accomplishments to date:
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch is a British politician who has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government since 2024. She was Secretary of State for Business and Trade from 2023 to 2024. She was also President of the Board of Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities from 2022 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Essex, previously Saffron Walden, since 2017.
My comment: On the bright side, I bet she has a lovely Oxford accent, as so many born in Wimbledon do.
I am not concerned about the over-the-top racist comments listed in the OP, because over in Britain, their real Deep State government has operatives who set up narratives just as we have them in the USA.
So the remarks could all be part of a campaign to arrange people’s thinking that it is better to keep one’s mouth shut than to say something that will immediately put you in the class of low life White Supremacists.
In other words, agree with this newly installed human regardless of what DEI activities she will support and promote or else risk being called racist and a White Supremacist.
90% of my British “X” followers and their buddies feel this way. And they have felt this way since 2017:
“The Tories have managed to unravel this country and despite Clusterfook after Clusterfook , they’ve still relied on , ‘ but Labour would be worse’. This is a pathetic weak mantra, that isn’t even true. Both parties offer the same goal. Globalist totalitarianism where legislation is dished our by third party unelected bureaucrats.”
On edit: If this attitude and belief I hold is proven to be wrong over the coming months, I will gladly alter my thinking.
Not bloody likely. I don’t agree with everything Kemi, but she’s pretty refreshing:
20 minutes, and worth it for those who think politicians these days can’t speak plainly.
A good bit, just about three minutes in, “I believe in limited government, so the government intervening, whacking every mole, kicking every barking dog, sets a precedent for a different type of government….”
The Labour MP (Dawn Butler) has been allowed to get away with calling Kemi the “most prominent member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class,” simply because she deleted her retweet of the original from some nonentity called “Nels Abbey.” Abbey is now saying that his original remark was “satirical:
Oh, the ever-important “clarification,” which cures all ills and removes any need for further discussion. Just like Joe’s “clarification” of the “garbage” comment. Funny, how that sort of thing only seems to work one way. It seems to me that people like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are never afforded the opportunity to “clarify,” so that their sometimes inconvenient utterances can simply go away.
In addition (I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere yet) Kemi may just have won the lottery when it comes to the supportive “wife guy.” Hamish Badenoch was a successful businessman and investment banker with his own political ambitions–he was successful in his campaign to become a councillor in a London borough, but later ran an unsuccessful campaign to win seat for Northern Ireland. His wife began her political career at about the same time, and was elected as a Member of the British Parliament, representing Saffron Waldon, in 2017.
Rumor has it that the agreement between the couple was that the first one past the post in Westminster would prevail, and that the other spouse would be supportive of his or her helpmeet’s political ambitions, and would, if he or she were so inclined, continue with a professional career in another area. Hamish Badenoch continues his career at Deutsche Bank, even to this day.
Also rumored is that the two of them don’t always agree politically: Mrs Badenoch voted for Brexit. Mr Badenoch voted to remain. Still, they’ve been married to each other twice–once in a Catholic church in Britain, and once in a Nigerian ceremony in Lagos, and–twelve years and three young children later–seem to be still going strong.
Doug Emhoff. Tim Walz. Eat your hearts out.
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch, you’re a brave choice for your party. I wish you well.
Perhaps, with your superior knowledge of British politics, you have another candidate you’d like to recommend?
I pray God gives her the strength she needs, because the UK is in very bad shape.
Larry Elder has company!
The Los Angeles Times (and I think others) called him the black face of white supremacy in 2021.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-27/larry-elders-recall-fans-prove-hes-face-white-supremacy
(Larry Elder: California radio host, Republican candidate for California governor in 2021 during the effort to recall Gavin Newsom. Oh, he’s black.)
Suggested edit: At what point does the entire western world realize that leftism is idiocy
has become a pathological mental state that holds the victim hostage by replacing genuine grounds for self-worth and self-esteem with membership in an empty narcissistic cult threatened by reality and anyone who accepts reality?Like I said, if over the coming months she is involved in activities that prove me wrong, I’ll gladly change my mind.
Am I wrong or has she said she is for increasing immigration in the UK?
Thanks. I’ll take my answer off the air.
Not that I am aware.
“[Britain is] not a dormitory. [Britain is] not a sponge.”—Kemi Badenoch
Her parents are Nigerian. She moved full-time to the UK when she was 16. She’s certainly not “anti-immigrant.” She has absorbed a great deal of flack over the last couple of years by saying that “not all cultures are equal,” and that “we need to make sure that when people are coming to this country they are coming to contribute and who want the success of this country,” and that “those we choose to welcome, we expect to share our values and contribute to society.”
“Culture is more than cuisine or clothes. It is also customs which may be at odds with British values. We cannot be naive and assume immigrants will automatically abandon ancestral ethnic hostilities at the border, or that all cultures are equally valid. They are not.”
“I am struck, for example, by the number of recent immigrants to the UK who hate Israel. That sentiment has no place here.”
This amount of plain speaking by a politician (I’m guessing that last bit, with its strong implication, drove quite some few people up the wall), and with it the assumption that there are things called “British values” which are worth preserving, is remarkable and has precipitated the usual meltdown among the hysterical pearl-clutchers on the Right, and the empty-headed loons on the Left.
She has committed to shutting down the criminal gangs facilitating the “boats” crossing the Channel, and has said that Britain will leave the European Convention for Human Rights if necessary, although she didn’t make doing so a part of her platform prior to her election.
It’s my hope she understands that immigration plays a role in the rot at the center of British life today, but that there are divisions deeper and more destructive that must be addressed among the 70 million people already there. Keep in mind that illegal immigration (mostly the “boats”) numbers something like 38,000 annually (sharply increased in the last few years) and that net migration to the UK, both illegal and legal, is something like 650,000 annually, an almost threefold increase since pre-Covid levels. There are many reasons for that, ranging from the need to import more and more workers into the greedy maw of the NHS, to people fleeing Britain for tax reasons, to a lack of interest among the general populace in gainful employment when the alternative is collecting generous welfare benefits. Those are the problems that will take some fixing. The immediate immigration issue isn’t itself decades-long, nor is it one that couldn’t be solved by some politicians and a party with some backbone.
It’s refreshing to have a party leader who 1) knows what country she represents (not Europe), and 2) doesn’t hate that country, its history, or its traditions. I don’t know how she’ll do, but my fingers are crossed.
Good luck!
For me the immigration question is a matter of quality, not quantity. Require quality and the quantity will go down.
The left has been doing this to Clarence Thomas ever since FJB led his hatchet job during the nomination. (Something Kristol/French et al forgot when they pushed for FJB in 2020)
I doubt they forgot. They just picture themselves as more Ted Kennedy the Lion, than his comic sidekick Joe.
Biden was mostly inept. He initially wanted no part of the Anita Hill nonsense but Metzenbaum and Simon went around him and to the media to force his hand. After Thomas blew away the liberals with “high tech lynching of an uppity black man” performance, Biden said “I believe you, judge” to conclude the hearing. Biden then voted against confirmation on the initial committee vote then for it with no recommendation, then against confirmation in the floor vote. He was always a weak partisan weasel.
Anyone who believes that the British Left isn’t panic-stricken at the election of Kemi Badenoch as leader of the Tory party need look no further than this rant from the CEO of something called Anti-Racist Cumbria.
FTR, I don’t believe that this outfit, or any of the opinions put forth in the list of links at the end of it, constitute some sort of government-controlled opposition intended to frighten the rest of England into keeping their mouths shut. I think they’re just scared that the gravy-train they’ve been riding for the past few years is about to dry up.
FJB’s success dismays me. The worst of us, at least in the political world, not only survived but thrived, and sits at the pinnacle of our hierarchy. Yes, he’s a weakling, but an effective one. The weak really do inherit the Earth.
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That’s the meek, isn’t it? Does anyone think FJB is “meek?”
he’s a blowhard who is meek in that he will bow down to others – he basically given into the Sanders/AOC wing of the party – some “centrist”
An octogenarian woman threw him out of the race despite that he won the primaries, and he hardly made a sound.
But he only bows to CERTAIN others, and it’s hard to think of a greater oxymoron than “meek blowhard.”
I didn’t say “meek.” You did.
In response to you using “weak shall inherit the Earth” rather than the correct “meek.” Or you could say it’s the “the poor” but FJB doesn’t qualify there either.
Anyway “weak blowhard” is something of an oxymoron too. Especially considering, again, that he only bows to CERTAIN others.
Really! FJB voted to confirm Thomas. It was Kennedy, Leahy and Metzenbaum that did the hatchet job, but without success.
“Joe Biden, D-DE
I believe that these are the values, that this is the wisdom that we need on the Supreme Court. I believe this nation needs someone who understands what it’s like to work your way up the hard way. I think this nation needs someone who knows what it’s like to get your hands dirty and work your way through school. I think this nation needs someone who knows what it’s like to struggle. I think this nation needs someone who knows what it’s like to be rejected because you are not part of the proper club or the proper group. And I think we need someone who understands what this struggle is all about. Because the vigor of this nation has not come from those who had it made. It’s come from those who know what it’s like to struggle and make it happen. That’s the American dream. Clarence Thomas understands that dream. And I believe on the Supreme Court of this nation, he’ll protect it.”
Biden was a different person in those days.