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anyone denouncing her for being "thick" or "lesser" is unconsciously/consciously playing into the same tropes dianne abbott gets but from a different trajectory.
To be fair, I know several people who worked with her in the past and all seem to agree that shes lacking in various forms of intelligence. I agree its disingenuous to describe her as "thick", but she's not somebody who understands something the first time its explained to her...lets put it like that.
She's a good blagger who shouts and bullies to impose her authority. Some people see that as intelligence and success. See Trump's supporters.
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she's not somebody who understands something the first time its explained to her...lets put it like that.
Lol, I wonder how many times the difference between terrorism and counter terrorism has been explained to her.
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But isn't that the the same as what's said about Abbott? If they were white men they would probably just called posh and great orators.
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my interactions with politicians are parasocial, which i assume most peoples are, so i cant comment on what its like to work with her (bad, i assume with all the claims coming out), but i think its best left alone as ultimately its unimportant? everyone's bad at their job, some jobs are more important than others, but that doesn't stop one failing upwards, for what is important in the biggest jobs is not our competency at preforming the labour.
I agree with your other comment on moving away from this idea of calling/ viewing things as stupid not stupid, as well as being a bias laden minefield as is being discussed, it's also awfully technocratic
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should distinguish between "competency" and "being a grifter", patel, in current politics, is probably one of the most competent, up coming, and to be quite honest, frightening politicians the Tories have.
she's slick, happy to say what people want to hear and does it convincingly; smart enough to get into a place for them to hear it. she's so well attuned to current linguistics of right populism and aware of how to wield them in a way which leaves many labour mps tripping over themselves it's hard to ignore.
anyone denouncing her for being "thick" or "lesser" is unconsciously/consciously playing into the same tropes dianne abbott gets but from a different trajectory. so often the comments about women or minority women MPs, are tied up in perceptions of unconscious bias, and leave any valid criticisms of their political/ material damage which may be intertwined lacking and easy to dismiss/ counter.
ironically, as she often does to her verbal critics across the chamber