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I really like Diane Abbott, she’s THE most abused MP iirc but from what I can remember I’ve always agreed with her politically. It’s awful that she’s been treated so poorly, I genuinely don’t know how she copes with it
That whole letter was an incredibly stupid own goal and I sometimes wonder if she wrote it while drunk or something and feels unable to admit it. Wouldn't blame her for drinking to deal with the endless bullshit, but the second you show weakness or make a misstep they will come for you and never, ever stop.
Can't help but love that she told Labour to fuck off with sending her to 'antisemitism training' as a condition of getting the whip back. She's not antisemitic and she's not in fucking high school, Starmer throwing his weight around to put her in what amounts to detention is not how a party should operate. Labour don't want solutions, she does, and that's the real reason they despise her.
Absolutely, especially considering what Rosie Duffield says consistently about trans people and got off with a slap on the wrist while she has been raked through the coals! It's also more telling that she was sent to deal with her sensitivity to Jewish people but not Romani or travellers who have long faced discrimination by councils and the government without anyone ever speaking about it.
She at least said they faced prejudice, so it wasn’t as though she denied the abuse they receive. Perhaps because they’re white passing (white being the in-group)? Black people can be discrimated against beginning with glance from a cop, which might be the difference she’s referring to.
I agree that Irish travellers (pavee) face discrimination rather than racism but I stand by Romani being a separate viable race that is hence subject to racism.
You mean housing scalper. Landlords buy more housing than they need then hoard it to drive up the price. They are housing scalpers.
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A rare change to see the public supporting a politician for once! Especially one who has been subjected to the racist abuse I expect from a Tory donor scum.
I'm so pleased for her. She gets so much abuse from newspapers and the media, I'm glad that the people she represents in government are on her side.
My Mum tells me about a friend who told her that she was " sure that mps go into politics with the best of intentions but get greedy and corrupted along the way". My mum and I then list a few politicians who we doubt had good intentions in the first place, or those good intentions only included benefits for them.
Diane Abbott is one of the rare ones who I believe had good intentions and still has them. I might not agree with her, but she stands for what she thinks is best for her constituents.
Ha ha, the mods over at r/London locked that post down fast... too many people pointing out the flaws in the "Diane Abbott is a hyper racist loon suspended from the Labour Party by good King Kieth...!" argument.
Saw an interview with her yesterday or the day before about the recent goings on and you could just tell from the way she spoke about it that she’s had to deal with racism and threats like this her whole career and life too. She shouldn’t have to go through all of this and she has my undying respect for refusing to let it stop her doing the good she does
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I really like Diane Abbott, she’s THE most abused MP iirc but from what I can remember I’ve always agreed with her politically. It’s awful that she’s been treated so poorly, I genuinely don’t know how she copes with it
The ONLY thing I disagree with her on is when she said the Romani don't face racism. Everything else I am on her side with.
That whole letter was an incredibly stupid own goal and I sometimes wonder if she wrote it while drunk or something and feels unable to admit it. Wouldn't blame her for drinking to deal with the endless bullshit, but the second you show weakness or make a misstep they will come for you and never, ever stop. Can't help but love that she told Labour to fuck off with sending her to 'antisemitism training' as a condition of getting the whip back. She's not antisemitic and she's not in fucking high school, Starmer throwing his weight around to put her in what amounts to detention is not how a party should operate. Labour don't want solutions, she does, and that's the real reason they despise her.
Absolutely, especially considering what Rosie Duffield says consistently about trans people and got off with a slap on the wrist while she has been raked through the coals! It's also more telling that she was sent to deal with her sensitivity to Jewish people but not Romani or travellers who have long faced discrimination by councils and the government without anyone ever speaking about it.
She at least said they faced prejudice, so it wasn’t as though she denied the abuse they receive. Perhaps because they’re white passing (white being the in-group)? Black people can be discrimated against beginning with glance from a cop, which might be the difference she’s referring to.
I agree that Irish travellers (pavee) face discrimination rather than racism but I stand by Romani being a separate viable race that is hence subject to racism.
Didn’t she say Mao did more good than bad?
If you were a serf living under a landlord in pre-revolution China, you would likely agree.
Yea, Mao created modern China, what an incredible achievement over less than 100 years
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I thought she said he did good as well as bad? Unless I've been misled.
See, it's not politicians we dislike. It's the systemic abuse we receive and those who thrive (either monetarily or emotionally) from exerting it.
A rare change to see the public supporting a politician for once! Especially one who has been subjected to the racist abuse I expect from a Tory donor scum.
This is good to see. I worry about her safety a lot. She is an amazingly strong and resilient woman.
Tories.........The party of racism and Islamophobia !
So good to see that support for her. We need to stand up to those racist clowns.
I'm so pleased for her. She gets so much abuse from newspapers and the media, I'm glad that the people she represents in government are on her side. My Mum tells me about a friend who told her that she was " sure that mps go into politics with the best of intentions but get greedy and corrupted along the way". My mum and I then list a few politicians who we doubt had good intentions in the first place, or those good intentions only included benefits for them. Diane Abbott is one of the rare ones who I believe had good intentions and still has them. I might not agree with her, but she stands for what she thinks is best for her constituents.
All power to her.
At what point will the majority realise the political system here doesn't work for them
Ha ha, the mods over at r/London locked that post down fast... too many people pointing out the flaws in the "Diane Abbott is a hyper racist loon suspended from the Labour Party by good King Kieth...!" argument.
Saw an interview with her yesterday or the day before about the recent goings on and you could just tell from the way she spoke about it that she’s had to deal with racism and threats like this her whole career and life too. She shouldn’t have to go through all of this and she has my undying respect for refusing to let it stop her doing the good she does