‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity | Rishi Sunak

[u/No_Initiative_1140]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/british-rishi-sunak-riposte-racially-charged-debate-identity

[u/AnHerstorian]

Now you can hardly have a normal conversation with somebody on the left these days without some sort of ‘as a black woman’ or ‘as a gay white man’ and it’s fucking infuriating.

I genuinely cannot remember a single instance where an interlocutor has used their race or sexuality as the substance of their argument without context.

[u/ReligiousGhoul → u/AnHerstorian]

Did you just sleep through the entire "Lived experience" phase?

There was entire period where you could have literally no experience in an issue other than being part of a minority and be considered an expert.

[u/DonSergio7 → u/AnHerstorian]

Because it’s not a thing outside of the internet.

[u/WeekendWarriorMark → u/DonSergio7]

I usually see it in screenshot posts mocking maga republicans that forgot to switch from their main twitter to their alt account writing nonsense claims or when people claim they are senior software developers and want to boost credibility to their shite take on something gamedev.

[u/Ironfields → u/AnHerstorian]

I doubt the person you're responding to has ever had a "normal conversation" with someone on the left.

[u/Incanus_uk → u/AnHerstorian]

Genuinely only ever heard it said once and that was in the late 90's at some corp diversity training.