The UK has its first non-white Prime Minister - American “comedy writers” and South African “comedian” invent a racist backlash in order to dunk on the UK.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The rise of Rishi Sunak to become the UK’s first Asian-heritage prime minister has prompted some truly atrocious takes from race-obsessed identitarians.

Predictably, one of the worst came from the United States – the home of critical race theory and an established hotbed of wokeness. Trevor Noah, a South African comedian and presenter of The Daily Show, confidently asserted that the UK’s first PM of Indian descent had prompted a racist ‘backlash’ among white people. Noah even suggested that white Brits were concerned that Sunak will personally seek revenge for British colonial activities on the Indian subcontinent.

Apparently Noah got significant pushback on his Twitter from fans…be interesting to see if he apolo….hahaha he’s not going to apologise. Remember he’s the guy who made jokes about Black South African gold miners being gunned down by police to break a strike and he has the audacity to lecture others about race.

And don’t get me started on the retard daily show reporter who complained strongly about Rishi Sunak being described as Asian.

[–]Horror-Swordfish 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

If anything he'll point to the 9% of people that said having a non-white PM would be a bad thing and say, "See? Racist backlash!" It doesn't matter if it was just one single person to them; they will look for anything to blow out of proportion to fit their worldview.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If he was actually clever, he would have pointed out that Rishi Sunak was appointed PM in a decidedly undemocratic fashion and that a principled democrat would now ask the King to dissolve parliament and call an election, but he knows his party will be wiped out if he did.

But that would mean he would have had to have done some research and it might paint the brown guy in a bad light and that can never be allowed to happen.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's not undemocratic. The people in the UK do not elect a specific prime minister. They elect individual MPs. The party with the most MPs becomes the government. And the leader of that party becomes the Prime Minister. If the leader of that party changes over the course of that government's term, that new leader is the prime minister. They can do that as many time as they want or need to within their term. Calling it undemocratic for the party leader to change and therefore the PM to change, just shows a lack of understanding in how the democracy of the country works. And while there are flaws in the UK's democratic system, election of a government for a set term, the leader of which can change over that term, is standard practice in many democratic systems.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And usually a leader chosen this way, especially one who is going to have to implement massive policy changes that were not on the last manifesto, would call an election to get a mandate from the electorate for their programme. Sunak can claim no popular mandate, especially as some of the changes have nothing to do with sorting the problems caused by his predecessor (such as changes to post-16 education).

I thought the same thing when Brown was anointed PM, and so did the tories at the time who were calling for an election.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s not even that the 9% don’t want a non-white PM. The 9% don’t want a PM who is French or German either.