Kemi Badenoch, who is expected to run for the Conservative leadership if her party loses the election, has said, as reported in the Financial Times :
“Labour’s proposals divide the country into black/white, rich/poor, old/young — because they see people as target groups, not as individuals.
I think classifying your workforce by race and having this influence their salaries is morally repellent. It’s what they did in apartheid South Africa and what they do now in China and Myanmar,”
We are used to refuting nonsense in today’s irrational political world but this reaches new lows of stupidity. If we are to right wrongs and help those in need we have to identify who the people are and treat them as a cohort. In other words put people together – create target groups.
The comparison with “apartheid South Africa” is as offensive as it is absurd. There racial divisions were a tool of repression. Here if you want to help minorities you have to know who they are and what they need in order to assist them. Colour, Race, Age etc. are social characteristics that we need to understand and classify. It’s ignorant nonsense to suggest otherwise.
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It’s a paradox for me to understand why children of second or even third-generation immigrants have such offensive, extreme views. They are coincidentally in senior positions in the Tory Party. To say it’s the ‘drawbridge effect’ is an oversimplification. Their background, education, and family circumstances presumably made them less tolerant. Whereas you might assume because they were children of migrants their sympathies would be for more tolerance and understanding all migrants face. Perhaps it is simply selfish ambition.
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