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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I'll put in a different angle on all this.
The poxy press have gratuitously noted that the top 4 cabinet members are not white. Why would they do that? What purpose does it serve other than to signal some sort of woke virtue?
It causes the contrary question to be asked: what's wrong with white people? What's so wonderful about non-whites having these positions?
Had the poxy press not made their observation, nobody would have turned a hair at the colour of the skin of cabinet members.
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Social mobility has been a particular problem amongst people from ethnic minorities in the UK. Their presence in the cabinet signals that things are - slowly - changing. It is unlikely to alter the deliberations of cabinet very much because none of these people has come straight from a ghetto to government so they don’t bring that perspective. But their highly visible presence may perhaps permit some people from those places to dream and to aim for it themselves.
Without the “poxy press” making these observations, I am quite sure plenty of people from BAME backgrounds are making them for themselves.