Said Kemi Badenoch, in the new episode of the Bari Weiss "Honestly" podcast, "Is Kemi Badenoch the Next Margaret Thatcher?" (transcript and audio here).
Badenoch, who grew up in Nigeria, now leads the Conservative Party in the U.K.
Despite being called a “race traitor” for opposing DEI, UK Conservative Party leader @KemiBadenoch is not backing down.
— Honestly with Bari Weiss (@thehonestlypod) December 12, 2024
“These are civilization-ending bad ideas.”
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There's also this: "I remember I had a very interesting experience with this woman called Kimberlé Crenshaw, who apparently is, is the queen of this stuff. I had no idea who she was. It was 2018.... I was speaking at a festival... and I just talked about me and I could tell she'd never met anyone like me before.... We were on the panel and she couldn't out black me. I was like, look, I come from like the place where all the black people come from. This is not what we're like. People have different political views, they have different identities. And she was trying to squeeze people into this sort of minority identity. And I kept challenging her. And at the end of it, at the end of the panel, she came over to me and told me that I was disrespectful. And I said, why am I disrespectful? She said, you haven't, you haven't read my books and you shouldn't talk about these things until you've read my books. I thought, what a load of nonsense. You know, you can write a book about astrology, doesn't mean the horoscopes are real. Like just this writing rubbish and thinking that because you've written a book, it's, it's fine."
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I got goosebumps listening to her. She's awesome.
I listened to half of that podcast yesterday. I thought her assessment of the UK right now was insightful. Her willingness to say what others fear to say is refreshing.
"If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” - Joe Biden
This is a quote by an old white reconstructionist-reborn 40-year Senator who hobnobbed with an actual Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan for most of his career and attended his funeral.
Fully 80% of black people in the United States voted for him.
I don't want to hear any complaints from black people about who is defining their blackness until they start voting better.
She sounds amazing. I love how she phrased her pushback to a race grifter's insistence that there is only one kind of black identity "she couldn't outblack me." That was and is very powerful.
She's the Leader of the Opposition in the UK. And, given how Keir Starmer's support has imploded, I'm hopeful that she will be the next Prime Minister.
Starmer has to be the worst PM of my lifetime. Even if Kemi is flawed in multiple ways, she's a huge step up in basic principles.
She's English, you're racist, and not very bright.
Critical Racists' Theory
Diversity [dogma] (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry) or class-disordered ideologies
Political congruence ("=")
Sex or sex-correlated gender (i.e. attributes)?
Religion (i.e. behavioral protocol or model) or cult (e.g. directed consensus)? "Secular "?
#HateLovesAbortion and other wicked solutions... a progressive path and slope.
And how about that British accent!
It’d be amazing to see her save Britain from its current suicidal trajectory.
"She's English"
Exactly. Close your eyes and who do you see.
That's one small step for a woman, one giant leap for diversity of individuals, minority of one.
Critical Race Theory: When a leftist party tries to maintain control by buying the votes of hardcore racist conservatives using doublespeak. If one scratches out the CRT label and describes the concepts, they would be rejected as reactionary and ultra-right. But, parties in power do what it takes to stay in power. Power corrupts. The left becomes the right and the right becomes the left.
The governance spectrum is from least to most. The left-right nexus is leftist.
Liberalism is a philosophy of divergence.
Progressivism is a philosophy of [unqualified] monotonic change.
Conservativism is a philosophy of moderation.
Principles matter.
I don't want to hear any complaints from black people about who is defining their blackness until they start voting better.
This is such a moronic comment, I want to emphasize how bad this is.
She's not an American and doesn't vote here.
If she was an American and voted here, she would have voted for Trump, obviously.
To reduce her to her skin and to assume she's in the alleged pool of 80% of Harris voters, instead of the alleged 20% of Trump voters, is to engage in racism, straight up.
And you are literally ignoring everything she says!
Including her English accent.
Meanwhile, your candidate, seeped in identity politics, was so thoroughly crushed in the last election, that you feel the need to go underground and pretend to be a Republican racist, and a lynching fan.
You are a Moby Dick, sir.
If you are ever in any doubt, just remember that Dixcus is always best ignored. He is a troll and a moron.
i'm CONFUSED..
as We ALL Know; a woman is someone who identifies as a woman
wait, that's not it; i got it! lets ask a psychologist!
https://psychology.tips/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-woman/
"When we consider what it means to be a woman, it goes beyond biological definitions. It is about embracing the unique challenges and strengths that come with identifying as female."
if a woman is someone that embraces being a woman..
how come we can't do the same with being black?
is only one a social construct?
Not English, even if she speaks with a British accent. She’s Nigerian, and no amount of simping from conservatives will make her anything else.
“In a new interview the Leader of the British Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch says that she identifies not as a Nigerian but specifically as a Yoruba, uses the phrase “our ethnic enemies”
She was born in the UK.
I like The Free Press. I think Bari Weiss took the red pill. Here's the full interview:
Is Kemi Badenoch the Next Margaret Thatcher?
An hour and 20 minutes. Very interesting so far. I'm probably going to watch the whole thing, which is rare for me.
I taught at a predominantly Black urban university for eight years. I was always struck by the differences between my African American students and my Black African students. This interview brought back memories.
Look away. Nothing to see here. Just another "strong black woman" who has broad support from the right and center but will be studiously absent in the dying "mainstream" news.
Margaret Thatcher discussion is great: 6:46 to 7:53. "You just said Margaret Thatcher to them and it shut them up."
A remarkable absence of word salads, blameshifting or demagoguery. It's so refreshing!
I remember back in about 2003 or 2004 having a conversation with a young, beautiful, smart, white, recent college grad who told me, with absolute confidence in her opinion, that Condoleezza Rice wasn't really black.
Maybe she got her confused with Kamala Harris.
Her influences are Hayek, The Road to Serfdom. And Thomas Sowell was a big influence. Also Haidt, The Righteous Mind.
We watched her on Prime Minister’s Questions a couple weeks ago. Keir hasn’t quite yet figured out that he is leading the government and fell into his longtime habit of attacking the Tories for not putting forth a coherent plan to fix the country’s problems.
She responded with “If he would like to see what we would do in office, he should step down and call an election.”
She is really fun to watch.
I am not sure if she took a red pill. What she took is a truth pill.
She strongly opposes the cult of the narrative which dominates “thinking” on all too much of both the left and the right (but much more on the left). Instead she focuses on searching for the truth.
I am pretty sure that outside of Israel and Wokism/Critcal theories/gender ideology she is a standard Democrat in the mold of Patrick Moynahan.
The Free Press is great. The podcasts that feature Eli Lake are always worthy listens.
Look, the Tories were in charge for 14 years. Who do think implemented all this DEI and censorship in the UK? Who do you think lied to the voters every election, promising to get immigration under control, and then deliberately let in record numbers of migrants?
And yes, isn't it nice their current leader is black woman from Nigeria. But why was she picked? Its not because she's the most talented. Its just more Affirmative action nonsense from the Tories. "Look at us, we're not racist, we have a black female leader". Pathetic.
The Tory party must die, so that England can live.
The UK has been lucky in getting the right leader at the right time. Here is to hoping that their luck continues and it happens for the 3rd time in 85 years.,
Not perfect by any means, but a very good candidate, she was for Brexit as her first speech, she's for English sensibilities which many native borns don't understand,
BTW, people don't seem to understand that the british system is different than ours. The PM is just the first among many. He's not "the boss" as FDR said of the Presidency. The PM can be voted out by the party at any time (ask boris johnson), and the PM can't change the Tory party unless a majority wants to. Plus, cabinet members are also Members of parliment, and usually resign if they dislike what the PM does.
So, I don't think this woman will change anything. The Tories aren't changing. They need to be replaced by Reform.
"Civilization-ending" = Death Cult. She's on the money. But isn't Keir Starmer in office for quite a long time yet, having just been elected? The Brits wanted to penalize the conservatives for (effectively) being a British GOPe, and now they're really stuck themselves with this mad joker.
Shes very impressive. Wish she could be replicated and have a few of her clones enter US politics.
Her accent is as close to Oxbridge as you can get without becoming obnoxious. She's not a true child of the oppressed. You need a Cockney accent to pull that off......For all I know, the English retain more class prejudices than racial prejudices. They sort of accept that people with Oxbridge accents should be in charge.......I read a biography of the Duke of Wellington. The poor kid was developing an Irish accent and his mother importuned a wealthy relation to get him into Eton before Arthur's pitiable pronunciation declined further. Thank God, she managed to pull it off. England never would have accepted a supreme commander with an Irish accent.
Bob Boyd said...
“I remember back in about 2003 or 2004 having a conversation with a young, beautiful, smart, white, recent college grad who told me, with absolute confidence in her opinion, that Condoleezza Rice wasn't really black.”
In the movie Green Book, there is a scene where the white driver tells his black employer that he (the driver) is blacker than him.
The black guy was a suave, sophisticated classical pianist who had just finished a performance at a swank country club in the segregated South while the white working class driver had just spent his time shooting craps outside with the black wait staff on break.
Is it racism to dislike a culture?
Saint Croix said (to Dixcus)…
“She's English, you're racist, and not very bright.”
I took Dixcus’ comment as a criticism of Crenshaw, who played the ‘Blacker than thou’ card on Badenoch, and Crenshaw is an American.
And while I agree with his ire, I don’t agree with his argument.
Sorry, I listen to the interview and while I found her elocution to be impressive and thoughtful, the substance was pretty thin gruel. On the subject of both the heavy handed policing of “ mean tweets” - jailing literally hundreds for the offense of speaking their minds - as well as the Islamization problem in many areas of Britain making many no go Sharia states and cultural wasteland areas, it was platitudes all the way down. No wonder Farange is eating her lunch on gaining support throughout the ( dwindling) English majority. If you listened to her describe where the bulk of the “immigrants” are coming from, it’s all from the same religious tradition.
If you can’t speak and identify the problem, you certainly can’t fix it. I’ll call her Barack 2, the she/ her version.
Yes! It makes smart people sound smarter and attractive people look more attractive.
I've read a little about her but wow, very impressive!
St Croix is correct, though after being born in London she spent the first 16 years in Lagos, Nigeria. She's impressive. Not sure why Tim wants to characterize our admiration as "simping" since none of us are in England, nor has the praise been overly effusive or sexual in nature. Maybe it's his own personal fetish surfacing in his choice of slang.
Often noted by Thomas Sowell in his writing.
No. Cultural relativism is prima facie bullshit. Mark Twain was wrong. Travel IS NOT "fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness". If you've traveled and lived in some of the places I've been, including 2 warzones, you will immediately become prejudiced, bigoted, and narrow-minded in your views of some cultures and 'the way they do things'. There is such a thing as bad culture, violent culture, self-destructive culture, and vice-versa. Same goes for sub-cultures within our own nation.
Bad. Culture. Exists.
Boy there's a ton of ignorance revealed in that smug statement, Bob. Surely there must have been some strong clues she was "smart" because that statement cuts against it like a razor blade.
I, for one, appreciate with great amusement the revision of the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy into the "No True Black" logical fallacy. I suppose the Scots, like the rest of the people of pallor, are no longer a disctinct enough national ethnic group to use as a stereotype. Thankfully, idiots can still use skin color as an alternative aggregator for their racist, collectivist, authoritarian argumentation. And when, in 50 years, racial intermarriage has produced enough people of mixed racial heritage to make a new fallacial category necessary, perhaps we can go to the "No True Martian" logical fallacy. I, for one, expect the inhabitants of Mars to be all in favor of the renaming. At least the true Martians.
"If you've traveled and lived in some of the places I've been, including 2 warzones, you will immediately become prejudiced..."
Is it still prejudice at that point? Or is it your best judgement based on experience?
She was smart, she was a hard-working, grounded person and she was nice. I liked her a lot. She was just repeating what she'd been taught by people she admired and looked up too. She was young and a liberal.
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if she had kids and became much more conservative.
Red pill is a truth pill! At least in the movie.
Both Bob. In many cases I assumed that some of the cultures I was about to be 'enriched' by were only a few plateaus above Cro-Magnon, only to have my assumptions proven and/or revealed to be wildly naive.
Just like George Bernard Shaw's old pig sty analogy, you should never 'wrestle' with many of the cultures and sub-cultures on planet earth. They're dirty, you'll get dirty, and they love it.
Eat her lunch? She has a very firm opinion on lunch! t
I like the look on Starmer's face when she rips him one.
She's the leader of the Conservative Party (Tories, big problem) and a member of the World Economic Forum. She's very good at issuing platitudes. I hate to agree with RCOCEAN II, but the Tories are useless. The Reform Party is becoming more and more popular and might effect real change. Instaguy posted this article today:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-new-thatcher-no-globalist-badenoch-misses-the-big-picture/
The headline really should read "This is civilization-ending philosophy..."
(Throwback to the hyphen commentary of a few days ago)
I must say this about the Brits. No one loves black people more than them. I find it odd, particularly given they were the world's no. 1 slave traders until 1808. OTOH, if they'd really disliked blacks in the 18th century, they wouldn't imported black slaves into their colonies.
Something in common with Kanala Harris: the both worked at Golden Arches.
And both in interfaith marriages to white guys.
Great commentary about immigration, race and culture, starting at the 26:36 mark.
One actually worked at McDonald's the other one is a completely phony.
And her marriage isn't interfaith.
She is the future of the UK. That is, if the UK is to have a future.
They were also the very first in all the world to decide that slavery should be outlawed and to then take actual steps (blood and treasure) to bring about its end.
Wow!! I don’t hold out much hope for the revival of sanity in the UK. But this woman ….
"In 1985, she [Kimberlé Crenshaw] received an LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin Law School"
Before your time so we can't blame you for this one.
Nope. Nigel Farage and Reform are, if the UK is to have a future. They don't have a prayer with either Tories or Labour.
Thanks.
She's awesome. I wish we had such an option in Australia.
Tories were in power for 14 years. Labour has been power for what, 6 months? If you don't like the state of the UK, its the Tories who are to blame. And there's no reason to believe they've changed. Even if they have a PM with a black skin who wears a skirt.
"There is such a thing as bad culture, violent culture, self-destructive culture, and vice-versa."
Here is an article by a college professor (ex-military) who came to the same conclusion.
The World's Most Toxic Value System
"The more I travel, study history and read the papers, the more convinced I become of the superiority of rationalism. With that attitude, I should spend all my time traveling to northern Europe and Japan. However, fate has also seen fit to send me to many places where people think with their viscera and gonads instead of their brains. The more I see it in action, the more convinced I become that societies that place personal "honor" before everything else are truly cursed. This value system has ramifications that pervade the societies infested with it. It is, in my view, the most toxic value system on the planet."
They didn’t import them into the UK because at that time they had surplus native population and didn’t need extra hands - and labor at home was cheap. They just took them to the malaria infested colonies where ( because they had been exposed at childhood in Africa) they didn’t die off like flies from exposure.
One reason they got “ morals”, didn’t hit them in the pocketbook.
There is Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Winsome Earle-Sears
Boris Johnson scuppered peace negotiations in Ukraine!
what are her thoughts on that?
I never feel that any political leader is as good as they seem at the outset.
Her comments about the insane pigeon holing of all people with dark skin into the futile and anachronistic stereotype of authentic blackness are 100 percent correct.
Your weekend reading assignment is Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell. He explains how American black people's lives have been harmed by the claim that the only authentic black person is a black version of the white redneck Scots-Irish Southern low class culture.
Black African immigrants are often quite educated and accomplished, and tend to be unsympathetic to the complaints of African-Americans. They particularly dislike hip-hop/rap/thug culture.
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