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You seem pretty confused to me. What the hell are you on about? You're allowed to think Abbott is up to the job and needs calling out, nothing wrong with that. What's wrong is using blackface to do that, given the history of blackface being used to mock black people.

I don't think the intentions of the person matter in this case. It's uncomfortably close to the truth of what used to regularly happen to black people (blackface being used to mock a black person). Not that long ago either - there's still black people alive today who will remember how blackface...

I am surprised by some of the responses in this thread. This is clearly unacceptable. Blackface has a historical context of being used to mock black people and their cultures (and has many other racist connotations too). Here, we see blackface being used to mock Dianne Abbot. If you know just...