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Originally Posted by Damien
She said he was 'superficially' black with the implication being that he somehow isn't really because his experience and background don't match.
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Did she really mean that? Or is it simply acknowledging that the broader lived experience of certain minorities isn’t uniform based on their outward appearance. So when people stereotype and visualise the “black community” they probably don’t visualise an investment banker.
Fundamentally it’s an open goal for the opponents of Labour for them to have these pseudo-intellectual debates publicly because when you filter the content down to a soundbyte, a tweet, or a tabloid newspaper column it’s very easy to portray it as saying something it doesn’t. Of those who see through that, the vast majority will be wondering why Labour thought it was wasting their time over during the biggest economic crisis in decades.
Being the moral arbiter or who does (and who doesn’t) count as having lived experience across racial or sex based lines is just toxic.