Trevor Noah has been accused of inventing a large-scale ‘racist backlash’ against Rishi Sunak, who became Britain’s first non-white Prime Minister this week. The Mail has more.
The U.S. TV host, 38, sparked fury among his British fans on Twitter after uploading a clip from the Daily Show, entitled: “Unpacking the Backlash to Rishi Sunak.”
In the three-minute video, which now has nearly a million views on Twitter, Noah claimed there were “people saying that Indians are going to take over Great Britain” as a response to Mr Sunak’s rise to the top job.
Mr Sunak is also the U.K.’s first ever Hindu Prime Minister. His grandparents migrated to the U.K. in the 1960s and they are all from India, bar his maternal grandmother, who was born in Africa, making him of British-Asian heritage.
Noah, a South African native, said “seeing the backlash” over Mr Sunak’s promotion “was one of the more telling things about how people view the role that they or their people have played in history”.
In a “Between the Scenes” segment – his interactions with the audience during the advert breaks – he then launched into a missive about postcolonial power structures and the suppression of black people and women in powerful positions.
It comes after it was revealed last month that Noah will be leaving the Daily Show after viewing figures plummeted by up to 75% following his takeover from American host Jon Stewart in 2013.
Analysts partly blamed this on the shift to online streaming but also on the programme’s perceived “political bias” and penchant for peddling “woke” ideology.
In his monologue on Mr. Sunak, Noah said: “You hear a lot of people saying: ‘Oh they’re taking over, Indians are going to take over Great Britain and what’s next?’ and I’ve always found myself going: ‘So what?… What are you afraid of?'”
“You see people in the U.K., you see people like Tucker Carlson [an American Fox News host] all the time saying: ‘You know what they’re trying to do… they won’t stop until black people and women are in positions of power’… So what?”
He added: “Why are you so afraid? I think it’s because the quiet part a lot of people don’t realise they are saying is: ‘We don’t want these people who were previously oppressed to get into power because then they may do to us what we did to them.'”
His analysis was blasted by British political commentators, who accused Noah of “projecting” America’s race problem onto Britain.
Piers Morgan fumed on Twitter: “There’s been no such backlash against Sunak, you race-baiting twerps. Why does U.S. media keep falsely portraying Britain as a racist country?'”
GB News Political commentator Tom Harwood added: “What backlash? Where? You’re making things up.”
Meanwhile, Talk TV’s Mike Graham was more blunt, writing: You do wonder if Americans are the thickest people on the planet.”
Viewers of the show were also unimpressed, as one tweeted: “There’s been virtually no backlash to the appointment of an Indian man as PM in Britain (other than the fact the process was an undemocratic joke). But his race hasn’t been brought up in the negative by anyone. American TV and American audiences do an awful lot of projecting.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Downing Street has responded to the story, saying Rishi Sunak “does not think Britain is a racist country”.
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He’s also making up lies about Tucker Carlson. These far-left media types are such extreme post-modernists that they make up any rubbish they like and consider it ‘their truth!!’
They are getting desperate. This tosser says we’re worried about Indians taking over, some other tosser says Sunak is not a proper Indian.
Rishi Sunak is more traditionally and respectably British than the Wayne and Waynetta Slob that live just down my street!
I suspect some Muslims may be against Rishi Sunak (and maybe more by the next election).
Like lockdown fanatics with Sweden, the race hustlers are terrified of counterexamples so they misrepresent them.
In truth there are a few people who are unhappy about Indians etc taking over – I know, I’ve seen the posts – but I suspect most of them would not be posting that stuff if Sunak was an actual conservative and not a WF stooge.
If Sunak was an English guy from Yorkshire, some people would complain that the crazy Northerners are taking over and if he was from Wales, they’d write the same about Welsh sheep-shaggers. While neither of both would be very useful for Noah’s canned postcolonial diatribe, they’re all qualitatively identical (putting someone down because he belongs to the wrong group of people). But then, the guy doesn’t really want to say something, he’s just kicking an ant hill in the hope to start some sort of heated race discussion where there was none so far.
With all these PM changes in recent years, not once did the Tories think of appointing a Smith – shocking, in my view!
What the American commentators don’t understand, is that while the USA has been layered in segregationist law all its life, the UK does not and never has had a single law that applies differently to one race vs another. They think, like many people here now do, that because we share a similar language, we share a similar history, and outlook, and that just isn’t the case. The UK has always found a way of incorporating people from other nations, although we are being sorely tested by the volume of what arrives at our door today.
My guess would be that they simply don’t care. To the wokist, the world began in 1492 and anything outside of the US of A is just different geographical backdrop for their drama.
I heard a story relating to WW2 the other day. As the troops were amassing in Britain for the D-Day landings the Americans were all for segregating their black troops, but the locals would not do it and welcomed Black and White troops into the same pubs and other public places all together.
I have no confidence that the Embassy in Washington will be on this case.
Which case, seriously? Random US duckhead holds the same speech again? With The Speech really being nothing but a random sequence of well-known terms combined with ad hoc chosen filler words? This guy doesn’t mean to say anything. He’s just trolling for page hits by using words known to annoy people. He’d probably be hard-pressed if he was asked to explain what he actually intended to express in plain English.
Meanwhile, Talk TV’s Mike Graham was more blunt, writing: You do wonder if Americans are the thickest people on the planet.”
With the greatest respect to Mr. Graham, wondering doesn’t come into it.
Cause and effect. Does being on the Left cause mental illness, or is it the result of mental illness?
Never heard of the feller. Does he matter? I assume not…
Was there the same outcry when the US voted in a man of colour as their president a few years ago? Or recently for their vice president, who is not only non-white but also a woman.
Mike Graham, yes Americans are the thickest people on the planet. I am one and thank you for making such a broad sweeping statement which shows you must be one of the smartest men in the world. We all know how clever…..no, I won’t go there. Isn’t necessary.