The Guardian just can’t stop itself being racist. Yesterday they had an article by Omar Khan posing the question, ‘The polls are ignoring a crucial factor in this election: minority voters’.
At
best it was mood music for dopey liberal woman, to give them yet more
information to misrepresent, in order than they can muscle in to ‘share the pain’.
Curiously Mr Khan’s article gives no evidence that ‘minority’ voters are not represented in the opinion polls. But he does make this rather odd claim…
“ Journalists
don’t see ethnicity breaks in polls, and even at a constituency level
are not addressing the possibility that the pronounced Labour-lean among
ethnic minority voters might be affecting outcomes.”
Because, as we know, (if we are living in the racist world of the Guardian) the polling companies only ever ask ‘huwhyte’
people about their voting intentions. In fact, I have it on good
authority that when polling firms send people out to canvas opinion they
are issued with a colour chart, and ordered not solicit the views of
anyone of a darker skin-tone than French — albino Jamaicans and mulattos
are acceptable so long as they are voting Tory.
Of
course we shouldn’t ignore the possibly that in fact the polls are
entirely correct, and the only people voting Labour are students, the
guilt ridden middle classes, anti-Semites and ‘minorities’.
And being as this is a racist article in a a racist newspaper, we of course have to get onto the subject of racism…
“ We
can see the low level of interest in the way that racism is discussed
generally, as an attribute of individuals, or as part of a
sensationalist story about celebrities, rather than as a systemic or
institutional issue with deep historical roots in our society.”
What like the Runymede Trust producing unsubstantiated claims of racial bias in polling data?
No I correct myself, because Mr Khan does have proof of the bias.
“ Where
are the vox pops with young black voters? Where are the editorials
about the “genuine concerns” of Asian working-class men?”
And what does Mr Khan mean by “genuine concerns”?
Of course we know what Mr Khan means, he is a member of the ultimate Anywhere class, the tax-free charity leach. What he means is the “genuine concerns” of the Asian (when does someone born in Britain stop being Asian?) working class man, who agrees with Mr Khan’s prejudice.
The 1 in 3 ‘minority’ voters that voted for Brexit, they don’t count. Well actually they do, they by some force of magic get shifted into the column of the white, racist, knuckle-draggers.
As for the ‘young black voters’
not being seen in vox pops. Either Mr Khan is ignorant of how TV
current affairs programs are made, or is being disingenuous. Everybody,
who bothers to look, knows that news is manufactured and not reported.
The
editor sends out a tellydolly to find someone who confirms the
narrative. In commercial television it will be to please the
advertisers: on the BBC it will be to confirm whatever whim happens to
be the fashion of the day (as culled from the letters page, editorials, and sometimes comment sections of a select few publications). If your face, or your opinion, doesn’t match the requirements, then it doesn’t get shown.
What the hell does Mr Khan expect? Journalists to do some work?
However, the most depressing thing about Mr Khan’s racist screed is this…
“ This
is both a question of basic data, but perhaps more importantly about
understanding the nature of ethnic minority communities in today’s
Britain, and of racism. Even without data we have no shortage of
journalists touring the country and meeting voters, but there’s been
little curiosity about ethnic minorities and their views about Brexit,
racism, the NHS or the economy — or anything much at all.”
No Mr Khan this is not true. And no matter how much you repeat it, it will not make it true.
Much as you want a segregated society, and a narrative that somehow Labour is losing because of racism, it doesn’t wash.
It may come as a shock to you, but ‘minorities’ are not the Borg. They are individuals. And even more shocking is that a ‘young black voter’ will find their opinion reflected as often in a vox pop of a ‘batty old white woman’ as the ‘batty old white woman’ will find their opinion reflected in a vox pop of a ‘young black voter’….
i.e. probably not at all, because vox pops are every bit as fake news
as sound-bites, native advertising, and Guardian opinion pieces.
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