The characters who caused the Goodness Gracious Me team the most trouble in their own community, for washing dirty linen in public, were the Kapoors and the Rabindranaths, who insisted that their names were Cooper and Robinson as part of their preposterous presentation of themselves as "English".
And so to Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Zia Yusuf, Ben Habib, and Shabana Mahmood. I have been around brown people like that my entire life. I have also been fighting the fash more than long enough for them to have noticed. And I promise you that they would do to you exactly what they would do to the rest of us.
Suella tweets:
ReplyDeleteI am not English.
I am a proud British Asian.
I am grateful for everything that this great country has given my family and me.
I love England and the British people.
This is not racist.
She was born in London. How is she not English? She could certainly play for England.
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