It’s not a “between”
Of course David Tennant’s pious wish for Kemi Badenoch to stop existing is being framed as “a row” between the two of them as opposed to a white man publicly wishing for a black woman to stop existing.
Rishi Sunak has intervened in a row between Kemi Badenoch and actor David Tennant, saying the Doctor Who star is “the problem”.
But it’s not “a row between” Badenoch and Tennant. It’s Tennant publicly wishing non-existence on Badenoch – publicly as in: in a public speech at a sleb event.
Tennant suggested at the British LGBT Awards last week that he wanted a world where the equalities minister “doesn’t exist any more”, and said she should “shut up”.
No he didn’t “suggest” that. He said it. They just can’t help themselves, can they. There is footage of him saying it, which we can all see, so there can’t be any legal motive for avoiding saying he said it. He can’t sue them for saying he said it, but they use the weaker verb anyway. Crap dishonest cowardly journalism.
Did he wish that a specific person not exist, or was he saying that the position of “Equalities Minister” shouldn’t exist, presumably because society had progressed to the stage where it is no longer needed? I assumed it was an aspirational statement of the second kind.
Yes, he said a world where Kemi Badenoch did not exist, specifically. Then the crowd cheered and he had a few seconds to realize how awful that sounded so he tried to modify it to just shutting up.
So Tennant was debating Kemi Badenoch’s right to exist? Wishing her into the cornfield? Funny how their side gets to say the same things out in the open that trans activists accuse our side of burying in dog-whistles and secret codes.
Yes, he decided to back off wishing her to not exist and decided that he would be OK with the black woman existing as long as she only existed as a silent slave who knows her place. Funny how Laurence Fox got well-deserved grief for saying he would not shag some woman in media, but lefty Tennant is applauded for telling a woman to keep silent and obey her masters.