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The latest Badenoch-ism

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Part of Kemi Badenoch’s justification for the Tories’ suggested £36 billion welfare cuts is:

millions of people can and do contribute to our economy to their families to their communities even when they face serious challenges. Double amputees run marathons. People who are housebound do wonderful creative work from home. People with autism run some of the biggest tech companies in the world. [Emphasis mine]

. . . and people with half a brain cell run major political parties.

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  • Badenoch is deliberately generalising because she hopes her words will make the public associate autistic people with the highest earners (tech company owners), thereby enabling her to cut welfare without pushback.

    Following the US elections, the British public are more aware of who individual tech owners are in the US, and of one of the reasons (concern about development of AI/tech owners’ massive profits) the American public turned against Trump. I think Badenoch could be using this to indirectly manipulate British public perception of autism.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    They’re losing massively to Reform, so they are trying to go as right-wing as possible. This is legit how facisim arises. 

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