The vast majority of voters for both main parties are not racist.
I mean, Conservative members (who are generally more right-wing than the electorate) have literally just voted for a black woman as leader over a guy throwing all the red meat he possibly could at them.
Supporting Thatcher didn’t make the Tory membership suddenly stop being sexist, and choosing Badenoch isn’t going to stop them being racist. In both cases “except her, she’s one of the good ones” is all they need to say.
Human nature is a lot more complicated than you think. Badenoch as a black woman, has managed to be both racist and misogynistic, while not seeing any issue with that.
If a black woman can be racist then I guess the conservative electorate are okay with that. For now anyway, I still have my doubts about her long-term survival.
The vast majority of voters for both main parties are not racist.
I mean, Conservative members (who are generally more right-wing than the electorate) have literally just voted for a black woman as leader over a guy throwing all the red meat he possibly could at them.
Supporting Thatcher didn’t make the Tory membership suddenly stop being sexist, and choosing Badenoch isn’t going to stop them being racist. In both cases “except her, she’s one of the good ones” is all they need to say.
Human nature is a lot more complicated than you think. Badenoch as a black woman, has managed to be both racist and misogynistic, while not seeing any issue with that.
If a black woman can be racist then I guess the conservative electorate are okay with that. For now anyway, I still have my doubts about her long-term survival.