Kemi Badenoch
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549 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 9 Jun
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So there is confusion about how to deal with it. But the issue with what happened to Alison is that old laws are being reinterpreted to do new things. Words, the meaning of words are changing. So the law that allowed a police officer to go to her house comes from, I think, 1999. It's very old. And it was about, there was a race report where the report came out about the Stephen Lawrence case.
It was called the McPherson Report. And it was a way of trying to capture situations where it's not a crime, but it's probably something that's likely to lead... It has a very Orwellian name. Yes, yes. Non-hate crime incident. And it was a way of capturing, I think it was to build a picture so that if a crime was committed, you would have evidence pre the crime that something was going on.
That there was intentionality. Yeah, exactly. It is now being used as a way of just intimidating people. Because in 1999, people weren't ringing up the police to say someone's done something that's hurt my feelings. There wasn't any social media that allowed people living hundreds of miles away to ring the police and ask that you be arrested.
So it is the combination of old laws and no updates to how we respond to them. Social media, the internet, everybody living in a more polarized society and all of these things are just thrown into a pot and it's explosive. So if you pick at them one by one, it's very hard.
Well, we don't want to get rid of these incidents reporting because we've had them for 25 years and they were helpful in these cases. But you look at how they are being exploited. Liberalism has been hacked. You have something that was good and was fine, but it only works if everybody polices the boundaries and uses them appropriately. If you allow people to exploit liberalism,
these rules and these laws to exploit liberal values, you will get these insane things happening. And that's one of the things that I want my party to take some time to think about. How do we stop people from abusing our system? How do we stop people from taking advantage of the freedoms that we have to use them to try and destroy us? Do you trust the British police? I do.
Remember, my experience with the police in Nigeria was very negative. And coming to the UK, my first experience with the police was very positive. You know, the police in Nigeria would rob us. So when people say, oh, I had this bad experience with the police because I'm black and they're white, I was like, well, you know, I remember the police stole my brother's shoes and his watch. His shoes?
Yeah, they took his shoes and his watch. It's a very poor country. So people do all sorts of things. And giving people a gun is just a license to intimidate. But that's not the bar we should use for British police. Obviously, it should be much higher. But my experience was so positive when I was burgled, for example. The police were there, very helpful. They eventually caught the person.
This is 2004. So 20 years ago, the police did catch criminals. And now we've given them too much to do, in my view. So the police are the first line of defense for everything. And I think that that burden makes it a lot harder for them to actually do the basics. And that's another thing that we need to look at.
It is so important. And, you know, one of the reasons why I don't like the term woke is because I think it disguises just how bad this stuff is. This is civilization ending philosophy. where really bad ideas are being smuggled in under the guise of civil rights and so on. But also with something like, you know, the attacks of being a race traitor. Those don't bother me.
I grew up in a place where everybody looked like me. And I don't need people who have only had the minority experience.
to tell me what it means to be black a lot of the things that we use to define people are awful stereotypes you know so they take a very distorted view of what black is black is you listen to this type of music you dress in this way you study these courses you have these political views and we have created what a black person is and if you don't fit into that box It doesn't, you're not real.
This is destroying the identities of hundreds of millions of people who have different ethnicities. They're all black, different cultures, different languages, and just throwing all of that away to create this really bland stereotype. The same thing with Islam and Islamic countries. There's so many different groups.
And then all of that is thrown away for this identikit, sort of Islamic identity of you are pro-Palestine, you are anti-Israel, you will only eat halal, this is how you dress, and you don't like the way Western people behave. We must stop putting people in these boxes. Critical race theory is an enabler of putting people into boxes.
We did so much to get rid of stereotypes, and now the stereotypes are coming back, except now they're coming back as a norm to be enforced rather than something to be laughed at. And it matters because if you are a black child in a school and people tell you that this is how to be black, you know, why are you wearing glasses? You're being a SWAT. You're being a nerd.
That's not what you should be doing. We start taking away opportunity and options away from young people. They feel that they have to conform. and not conform to a high standard, which is how things used to be, but conforming to a low standard. This is life destroying. So I hate critical race theory.
And I remember I had a very interesting experience with this woman called Kimberly Crenshaw, who apparently is the queen of this stuff. I had no idea who she was. It was 2018.
I had no idea. I was speaking at a festival in 2018. And I just talked about me. And I could tell she'd never met anyone like me before.
Yeah, 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. What a load of nonsense. You know, you can write a book about astrology. Doesn't mean the horoscopes are real.
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