I know some people don’t realise this because they seem to believe the Labour disciplinary process only applies to antisemitism and literally nothing else therefore non Jews can’t weigh in on an opinion but this process is meant to deal with all racism and...well
Given the party clearly operates a hierarchy of bigotry if it’s not trusted for antisemitism then I see no reason why it would be trusted on anything else. For that reason the @MuslimCouncil and @RunnymedeTrust should submit a formal request to @EHRC to investigate the party
I have said all along that the party had failings on antisemitism. But it won’t be resolved by blaming it on Corbyn. If the established “leaders” of the Jewish community are telling people that then I’m sorry but they are point blank lying to you and you should be very angry.
When the leader of the opposition can so blatantly intervene in contravention of a report he claims to be wanting to uphold, you can’t blame that on Corbyn.
When the leader goes out of his way to personally respond on antisemitism but can not bring himself to personally address a report that states *actual*, not perceived, islamophobia is far more prevalent in the party, I don’t see how that’s not discriminatory towards Muslims.
When neither the leader nor the party seem to want to address anti blackness within the party and the entrenched bullying of the first black woman elected to Parliament from her own colleagues? This is not an anti-racist party.
None of this can be placed at the feet of Corbyn but rather at the absolute dogs ear political factionalism made of the ability to actually tackle racism in the party.

You can’t go around chucking lamps then say “he made me do it.”

He can make you *want* to but it’s still you.
The language of anti-racism has been co-opted by people whose entire careers have shown absolutely no interest in it. @OwenJones84 gets shut down on tv for making this point. It’s called “whataboutery”. It is no such thing. It’s eliminating people with unrelated motive.
There party cannot claim to be competently dealing with any of the following despite the loud protestations of the Leader:

Antisemitism (he’s fucked it)
Transphobia (ignoring it)
Antiblackness (huh what? not even recognised)
Islamophobia (nope)
Anti-Roma (not even acknowledged)
For every prioritising of punishing Corbyn over actually tackling antisemitism not only has the Leadership further entrenched antisemitism, it has also dismantled its own ability to deal with any other bigotry when it bothers to remember other ones exist.
It’s not Corbyn who said the EHRC was failing black brits - that was the House of Commons.
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