Kemi Badenoch has blasted the National Trust for using the term “Global Majority” to describe non-white people, labelling it as anti-white and divisive. The Telegraph has more.
The trust is among several British institutions now using the phrase “Global Majority”, which Ms. Badenoch, who is Minister for Women and Equalities and a member of the Cabinet, warned has “political implications”.
The phrase is a collective term for non-white people, who make up about 85% of the world’s population and is sometimes used instead of “ethnic minority” or “Bame” – terms that some people believe to be outdated.
Ms. Badenoch’s comments come after the National Trust faced a backlash following an announcement that it would be “training 100 new walk leaders from global majority communities” and that “people from the global majority are widely under-represented in the outdoors”.
Ms. Badenoch said: “Many organisations adopt phrases like ‘global majority’ innocently without understanding the political implications. Often they feel compelled to use them by following guidance from bodies who claim to be anti-racist but are actually just anti-white. …
“At the end of the day, the National Trust is a national organisation, not a global one. They should apply the principle of equality under the law and focus on delivering for everybody, regardless of their background or whether they are a minority or majority.”
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Very well said, Ms Badenoch!
‘Global majority’ is a meaningless term.
We are all part of the ‘global majority’.
‘Global Ethnic Majority’ also makes no sense, but does rather give the game away……
No doubt that is why ‘Global majority’ is the term given currency….a bit like ‘Climate change’ replacing the term ‘Global warming’
Glib and mendacious nonsense, the lot of it.
It means something now – non white people. It’s war.
I live in Kemi Badenochs constituency and despite and despite being about the only semi conservative she is on course to be ousted by a 21 year old labour candidate at the election when it comes!
Good! Let all those who wear the fake Tory rosette be cast asunder.
I continue to insist that I’m German and not ‘white’.
Indeed I upset the apple cart when I was a school governor- we were discussing the “ethnic group” composition of the governing body and for some reason we were referring to some stats collected anonymously rather than simply looking round the room. They were puzzled as to who had ticked “other” – I was happy to own up to having written English/German in the box. I think we should stop gathering this information.
I’m just me.
Sleight-of-hand.
You mean your NATIONALITY is German, and your Ethnicity is Third World.
Did somebody ever tell you that you’re a complete imbecile? Because if not, it’s really about time. One of my grandfathers was a professional soldier in the Wehrmacht and the other some civil servant in the Königsberg administration who vanished when the Russians conquered the town (ie, his wife and two children who had fled earlier¸ never saw him again). That’s ethnically about as German as it can get.
I’m also, as far as I can tell, the rightful heir of this nice ring which is the seal of some minor Prussian noble-house called von Ziegler und Klipphausen (probably Silesian branch, but I don’t really know the details).
Sounds like Bridgerton.
Ethnic Germans are Ethnic Europeans = white people.
To deny this fact is to advocate genocide against the World’s Smallest Ethnic Group.
What’s the actual message here – that people who don’t share the same melanin quotient as indigenous countryside dwellers in a northern latitude temperate country should take on the historical habits of equally shaded indigenous groups? I used to work for someone who considered residing outside the M25 akin to living in the far reaches of Outer Mongolia, and ‘a walk in the country’ a high risk extreme sport. Why should that person be ‘nudged’ to take countryside walks when they patently need to be surrounded by glass and concrete? I feel a parsing of the term ‘racist colonialism’ coming on….
If the usual plan is being put into practice which is very likely, a cover story is needed to plunder National Trust funds supposed to be used for its actual purpose – conservation of national heritage – and channel it into some people’s preferred political projects and to themselves. It must be something about badism because then, people opposed to this asset raid can be accused of being badists which will deter some and hopefully tie everyone up in the usual, useless discussion for first principles while the money is being carried away through the backdoor.
These people aren’t exactly creative. They’re always using the same excuses to accomplish the same end, be it plundering ther NHS budget or deestablishing the CoE while retaining its assets or robbing the National Trust. We’ve already heard that the royal family would be ‘terribly white’ as that’s another well-funded British insitution which is sooner or later to be tapped into somehow, details to be determined.
You have it in one. The move is to gradually push out the volunteers and public in order to rent out the Buildings and land at a more lucrative rate under the guise of a Charity.
It may be advisable to cease donating monies/legacies to the NT and don’t visit their premises – that is my rule nowadays. The same goes for RNLI too.
Off-T
Kathy Gyngell’s review of the week which is a cracking read. Understandably she sings the praises of TCW but no mention of DS. Is there some animosity here? In fairness to DS we give plenty of shout outs to TCW. What’s going on?
And Kathy your ‘new’ site layout is still a damned mess.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/kathys-tcw-week-in-review-23/
Perhaps she’s annoyed that the Daily Sceptic actually does “Defend Freedom”, unlike her own TCW website which claims to do so, but quietly blocks and bans any criticism of Mariolatry.
TCW should be renamed TCCW: The Conservative Catholic Woman.
Who did thecredisign, it’s terrible..
God knows but it is crap.
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
I joined to vote for Sumption but he lost. Hope he stands again next year.
Yet another hypocritical statement from the Nigerian, who previously said:
Kemi Badenoch, the equalities minister, said: “I strongly believe that Britain is the fairest and most open-minded country in the world, but there is more we can do to foster inclusion and enable everyone to reach their full potential.”
“The causes behind racial disparities are complex and often misunderstood. Our new strategy is about action, not rhetoric, and will help create a country where a person’s race, social or ethnic background is no barrier to achieving their ambitions.”
UK government to scrap ‘BAME’ in response to race inquiry | Race | The Guardian
We don’t need Africans & Communists giving us “a new strategy” to “help create” our country the way they want it. We don’t need an equalities minister lecturing and admonishing all resisters to The Great Replacement.
The message of the West should be:
Dear Third World, we owe you NOTHING.
Stop whining and get over it!
My gut feel is that Badenoch doesn’t believe those things but feels she needs to say them for political reasons, or to please her family, friends, whatever.
Didn’t I read a piece only a few days ago about left wingers criticising the same use of the term global majority as racist towards minorities?
The world is really losing it’s freaking mind
Yes there was a lady who was mad at them for lumping all non whites together as she rightly observed someone from Africa, won’t be the same as someone from Asia or from the Caribbean.
When you take each race as a stand alone I’d imagine that we’re all approximately the same in number? (I don’t know that, I’m guessing).
That’s why I dumped my membership. I don’t want to be lectured by numpties at the NT and English Heritage about how unscrupulous white people used what were standard practices for the times,built a stately home. These numpties wouldn’t have a Trust or a job if they hadn’t.
So if the indigenous white population in the U.K. are part of a global minority we should be the ones accorded victim status and special privileges, not to mention reparations for having been mercilessly marginalised in our own land.