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→ Kemi Badenoch spars with David Tennant
It’s impossible to escape the election — even at the British LGBT Awards ceremony. In an acceptance speech, the actor David Tennant said that his LGBT allyship was “just common sense”. He added that “until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist any more [applause], I don’t wish ill of her, I just wish for her to shut up.” The Equalities Minister responded forcefully online, saying “I will not shut up” before dismissing Tennant as a “rich, lefty, white male celebrity”.
I will not shut up. I will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from Stonewall over the safety of women and girls.
A rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can’t see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government by calling publicly… https://t.co/caIQOFYnrU
— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) June 25, 2024
Many have come out to support Badenoch, yet she has also faced some unlikely criticism — from the Right. GB News’s Steven Edginton pointed out that “the most ‘right wing conservative’ minister in parliament uses ‘white male’ as a pejorative. Disgusting.” Perhaps it’s not just Tennant who’s playing identity politics…
→ NY Magazine columnist blames George Floyd’s death on Trump
The death of George Floyd in police custody, as well as the ensuing riots and surge in violent crime, can all be blamed on Donald Trump, according to New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait.
Did you hate the wave of crime and radicalism in 2020? That was on Trump’s watch. Let’s not do it again. https://t.co/8qovwkxmLE pic.twitter.com/wCyTSGmUCr
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) June 24, 2024
Trump’s pro-police commentary emboldened officers to abuse Americans with impunity, leading directly to Floyd’s death, according to the article. “The crisis could have been averted if we simply had a different guy in the Oval Office”, Chait wrote, though he conceded that “it’s impossible to prove that Derek Chauvin would not have killed George Floyd in a hypothetical world in which Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.”
The crux of the story is that law-and-order conservatives should vote for Biden this November. This is a rallying cry we’re also hearing from liberals who view Trump’s criminal prosecution in New York as an even-handed — and damning — application of the law. Trump, for his part, is obviously relishing his outlaw image.
→ Raw Egg Nationalist responds to online doxxing
Is the golden age of Right-wing internet anons coming to an end? The campaign group HOPE not hate has revealed that the pseudonymous Raw Egg Nationalist bodybuilder account is in fact run by an English academic called Charles Cornish-Dale who lives with his mother.
The doxxing, which follows that of Bronze Age Pervert (Costin Vlad Alamariu) and Lomez (former University of California, Irvine lecturer Jonathan Keeperman), is a sure sign that political opponents of these accounts are on the warpath. HOPE not hate also exposed that Cornish-Dale’s books had been sold by a publishing company which sells volumes of Hitler’s speeches and a novel by Joseph Goebbels.
Pay attention to everyone attacking Trump, doxxing anons, and punching right during an election year
— Joshua Rainer (@JoshRainerGold) June 23, 2024
Trying to defend himself, Raw Egg Nationalist reposted a tweet reading: “Pay attention to everyone attacking Trump, doxxing anons, and punching right during an election year.” The anonymity might be gone, but no doubt the books will still be selling…
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SubscribeTennants wife is clearly a fool… and he’s well under the thumb
Crush him like a bug Kemi
I still really like David Tennant, but unless he’s actually acting as a character and reading from a script, I desperately don’t want to know want he thinks about issues. More knowledge will only further tarnish his once stellar image in my brain.
As for critising Kemi’s use of ‘white male’ as a pejorative…. really? It is obvious that it’s a case of using your opponent’s own rhetoric against them to highlight their own hypocrisy. It is doubtful she would have been on record as being so vociferously against Critical Race Theory in public education if she agreed even partially with its central tenant of ‘White, Male, & Rich = Pure Evil’. If Unherd had emojis there would be SO many eyeroll faces here right now.
Tennant probably doesn’t believe any of the Stonewall gibberish any more than Kemi. He just knows what’s good for his career.
On this one, I suspect Kemi is merely pointing out that David Tennant, the clown, is breaking one of the iron laws of his own political tribe.
Kemi isn’t bound by the silly rules of identitarianism because she’s not Progressive, only Tennant is bound by them. Kemi is therefore just cleverly playing the game of forcing a political adversary to live by the same rules he wants to impose on everyone else.
Well played Kemi. Shut up, Tennant.
Yes, I am sure that Kemi saying “white male” is a very deliberate thumb in the eye for lefties and she knows it.
I do try with GB News, but they really struggle for smart takes.
If you read what she said, you’ll note that she’s explicitly playing the race card in her X/tweet. Her behaviour is no different from those on the left who condemn people purely for their accident of birth in being born white and male and for their success in life.
She had a valid point to make here.
Unfortunately, she missed an open goal and dragged herself down to the level of the label-slingers of identity politics and the left.
Not impressed.
I’d argue that Kemi was playing by Tennant’s rules. It wasn’t a dig at ‘white males’ in general.
She’s explicitly playing the race card in the same way that the Progressive left plays it, and that’s her point. It emphasises Tennant’s hypocrisy. You are simply failing to appreciate the implications of what she’s doing.
She should be better than that.
She’s doing nothing wrong and has nothing to apologise for.
Badenoch is a clown. I can’t wait for her to be Tory leader for however many weeks she lasts in the job
“Badenoch is a clown”
Why exactly?
She scares him. He knows she’s going to wipe the floor with Labour in 2029.
Champagne Socialist is a boring agent provocateur. If he slags off someone, it means they’re good.
The fact that he hides behind a pseudonym is a good reason to mistrust him.
I guess it takes one to know one CS
Anyone who watched the George Floyd video knows that his death was at worst a tragic accident. Once the media starts lying as a matter of course and without even pretending to be objective, as do the American media, there’s no way back.
“…(Ethic Minority person’s name) doesn’t exist any more”
It’s the left’s take on “go back to where you came from”..