Why Such A Fuss About Abacus......?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-uk-politics-sunak-starmer-general-election-vote-labour-tories-speaker-sky-news-politics-hub-12593360

As far as I can tell he's being accused of being racist because he said she's an embrarrasment to all black women. Mistake fair enough but not racism. She's an embarrasment to all human beings let alone women let alone black women! For eff sake move on.

[andy-hughes]

YMB - That's not it, and I think you are trying to stir it.

'Diane Abbott is a black woman.'

Not racist. 

'The sight of Diane Abbott makes me want to hate all black women.'

Racist.

I know you are bright enough to understand the difference, so stop poking the bear.

[Old_Geezer]

It's content is racial rather than racist.

 

Other people's opinions/claims don't make something so.

 

Some have agendas to keep making a fuss, trouble making for the Tory party for the most part. 

 

It was a stupid case of hyperbole said at a private grouping. But let they who continue to have kept their halo all nice & shiny cast the first aspersion.

[THECORBYLOON]

OG, why is wanting to hate all black woman not racist?

[Mozz71]

It's not about Abbott, as if it had been a Labour donor saying something similar about Kemi Badenoch (for example) that too would've gotten exactly the same reaction (apart from you defending them of course). The idiot singles out her race, and targeted others of a similar race. Sorry Tora, but you couldn't get any more racist without using the N-word.

 

And that's without mentioning the desire to see her shot.

[ToraToraTora]

ok mozz you win!

[Old_Geezer]

Thinking that you should want a particular attitude isn't racist. He, himself, in the same statement, says he doesn't actually hate all black women.

 

To be racist one has to actually discriminate against a race, and someone simply stating that the characteristics of one individual encourages them to think they should feel the same for the whole group, simply doesn't achieve that.

[Mozz71]

OG, I don't think many here actually think he's racist, rather than the comment he made is. 

[THECORBYLOON]

OG, definition of racist from the OED -

"A person who is prejudiced, antagonistic, or discriminatory towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized"

He hates all black woman when he sees Diane Abbot.

Is he not prejudiced or antagonistic toward a certain group of women based solely upon the colour of their skin?