I know. He's South African. But he's aiming his narrative at an American audience. And it's entirely imaginary and maliciously divisive. I haven't seen a single commentator express concern about Rishi being of Indian descent. No one here cares. There is no backlash. The opposite is true.
"Trevor Noah, 38, sparked fury among his British fans on Twitter after uploading a 'Between The Scenes' segment from his programme The Daily Show, entitled: 'Unpacking the Backlash to Rishi Sunak.' In the three-minute clip, which has more than 350,000 views, Noah claimed there were 'people saying that Indians are going to takeover Great Britain' as a response to Mr Sunak's rise to the top job. He said 'seeing the backlash was one of the more telling things about how people view the role that they or their people have played in history.' He then launched into a missive about post-colonial power structures and the suppression of black people and women in powerful positions. He 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 UK, 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 some Twitter users in the UK, who accused Noah of 'projecting' America's race problem onto Britain. One fumed: '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.'"
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