Diane Abbott suspended as Labour MP.

[trashpony]

This is the letter which was published today.


She has since issued a hasty apology, saying that it was a draft and she didn’t mean to send it. Or something.

 

[trashpony]

Here’s her apology

 

[Sasaferrato]

Diane Abbott has been suspended as a Labour MP due to a letter published in The Observer.

The letter is on the Guardian website.

I really cannot see why this merits suspension.

 

[Fez909]

Suspended from Labour.

 

[skyscraper101]

She’s a calamity of an MP. No big loss to the party.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Didn't Corbyn have her as Shadow Home Secretary?.

 

[Rob Ray]

She’s a calamity of an MP. No big loss to the party.

She's certainly prone to clunky and foolish behaviour, this email included. But I'm extremely suspicious of the sheer level of spite that's flung her way given the rest of the shower of shite that makes up the modern party. She does at least seem to care just a little bit about people in actual need. I mean the shadow work and pensions secretary, on the same day she's been suspended for this, was busily disinterring the old terrorist migrants line.

 

[cupid_stunt]

That apology is just bullshit.

 

[Serge Forward]

Already a thread

 

[Aladdin]

Thread 'Diane Abbott writes to the Observer to say only Black people can be victims of racism' Diane Abbott writes to the Observer to say only Black people can be victims of racism


See here

 

[cupid_stunt]

Thread here - Diane Abbott writes to the Observer to say only Black people can be victims of racism

 

[Spymaster]

Here’s her apology

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"I wish to disassociate myself from my own remarks"

Fucking idiot.

 

[Aladdin]

She seems to be a bit racist about racism...

 

[cupid_stunt]

It's just like buses.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Already a thread

So I saw.

Just let this one wither.

 

[PursuedByBears]

She does at least seem to care just a little bit about people in actual need.

Unless they're Jewish?

 

[cesare]

Suspended from Labour.

Hairtrigger response

 

[Plumdaff]

I'm a bit at no one at the Observer checking this out before printing seeing as it's an obvious draft. It just.... runs out, and unless you hated someone, wouldn't you double check before printing that shocker.

Still, as the rest of her politics don't fit she's just handed the Labour leadership a gift. And the Observer probably do hate her.

 

[returning_1]

I'm not surprised to see expressions of this sort, and I feel it is a fairly normal response from anti-semites who want to be seen as progressive. I suppose Jewish people may well not experience structural racism, unlike Travellers (Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers are ethnic groups under the Equality Act), but to say that they cannot experience racism is so odd as to be meaningless. So at best she's saying that you need, as an ethnic group, to experience structural racism at this point in time to experience any form of racism, but the difference structural/hate isn't that clear cut imho

 

[LDC]

How the fuck can she have drafted that and sent it? What was the edited finished version going to say then? Sounds like total bollocks to me.

 

[Petcha]

She's always been batshit, no idea how she reached such a senior level in the first place

 

[danny la rouge]

She seems to be a bit racist about racism...

She made the same mistake as Whoopie Goldberg.

The thing people forget is that the notion of race is caused by racism. It’s no point telling Jews “but you look white”, when that is it no concern to those who do not consider Jews to be the same race as everyone else.

 

[LDC]

"I wish to disassociate myself from my own remarks"

Fucking idiot.

Yeah, but also something we can probably all relate to tbh!

 

[rasputin]

I'm a bit at no one at the Observer checking this out before printing seeing as it's an obvious draft. It just.... runs out, and unless you hated someone, wouldn't you double check before printing that shocker.

Still, as the rest of her politics don't fit she's just handed the Labour leadership a gift. And the Observer probably do hate her.

I'm not sure it's as obvious as you seem to think - and besides, it's surely the responsibility of the author to check the content, not the Observer.

 

[Pickman's model]

She's always been batshit, no idea how she reached such a senior level in the first place

Just waiting for you to come out with the bit about her difficulty with numbers a few years back

 

[danny la rouge]

Diane Abbott has been suspended as a Labour MP due to a letter published in The Observer.

The letter is on the Guardian website.

I really cannot see why this merits suspension.

I think it very much merits suspension. It’s a racist letter expressing racist ideas. Can she learn and grow from this? Let’s hope so.

 

[LDC]

I'm a bit at no one at the Observer checking this out before printing seeing as it's an obvious draft. It just.... runs out, and unless you hated someone, wouldn't you double check before printing that shocker.

Still, as the rest of her politics don't fit she's just handed the Labour leadership a gift. And the Observer probably do hate her.

I wonder what checking letters like that get to verify their legitimacy? Like just from an official email, or do they contact and check? Surely there must be something, especially with a letter like that.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm not surprised to see expressions of this sort, and I feel it is a fairly normal response from anti-semites who want to be seen as progressive. I suppose Jewish people may well not experience structural racism, unlike Travellers (Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers are ethnic groups under the Equality Act), but to say that they cannot experience racism is so odd as to be meaningless. So at best she's saying that you need, as an ethnic group, to experience structural racism at this point in time to experience any form of racism, but the difference structural/hate isn't that clear cut imho

If you're returning_1 who were you before?

 

[cesare]

At least she's not blaming anyone else, I suppose.

 

[Rob Ray]

Unless they're Jewish?

There's quite a famous Jewish population in her constituency, she's certainly advocated for them in the past and I've not heard of her exhibiting a specific lack of care in her term as MP?