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Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader of the opposition in the UK, revealed at the Cliveden Literary Festival that she witnessed two instances of people being lynched as a child in Nigeria during the 1980s and 1990s. She compared these experiences to modern online cancel culture, emphasizing the importance of standing up against mob mentality both on social media and in real life. Badenoch also discussed her children's identity and ethnicity, asserting that ancestry is a spectrum rather than binary categories like sex and gender.
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Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader of the opposition, revealed at the Cliveden Literary Festival over the weekend that she witnessed two instances of lynching as a child in Nigeria during the 1980s and 1990s. She saw one victim committing a crime before being beaten to death and another who was killed without provocation. Badenoch, who was born in the UK but spent her childhood in Nigeria, drew parallels between these historical events and modern-day online cancel culture, emphasizing the importance of standing up against mob tactics both on social media and in real life. She stressed that witnessing such violent acts early in life taught her to be wary of how fear-driven mobs can silence dissenting voices.
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Kemi Badenoch has revealed she witnessed at least two people being lynched while living in Nigeria as a child.
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The Conservative leader of the opposition said she saw one victim committing the crime before being beaten to death and the other person 'just being killed'.
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Speaking at the Cliveden Literary Festival over the weekend, Ms Badenoch said the formative experiences had taught her the importance of standing up to online cancel culture.
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She said: 'I don’t think people understand just how much my childhood impacts the way that I think.
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I saw real lynch mobs.
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I saw people killed.
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Two, at least, certainly come to mind.
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One where I actually saw the crime, and the person beaten to death, and the other one where I just saw the lynching.'
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Ms Badenoch was born in the UK but spent most of her childhood in Nigeria in the 1980s and 1990s.
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The 46-year-old made comparisons between the lynching prolific in the country at the time and online cancel culture.
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She said: 'It’s a group activity, the hive mind takes over, and it’s fear of the mob.
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What has happened is that when new ideas come in, where you have militant people behind them who are very happy to use mob tactics - whether it’s on social media or in real life - many people are afraid and they don’t want to speak up.
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Kemi Badenoch is seen here at the Cliveden Literary Festival where she shared the childhood anecdotes with the audience
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Badenoch revealed she witnessed at least two people being lynched while living in Nigeria as a child.
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She is pictured here at the Conservative Party Conference
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Ms Badenoch is pictured with her husband, Hamish.
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She spoke about her children's identity and ethnicity at the conference
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Ms Badenoch made the comments during a discussion about 'ideological capture' in British institutions.
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She praised Harry Potter author JK Rowling – a vocal critic of trans rights activists – as well as Britain's 'strictest headmistress' Katharine Birbalsingh.
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'You need people like that who will use all of the tools that are available in our law.
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'It’s why I love people like JK Rowling, who know they cannot be cancelled and they use their status and their power to protect other people,' she said.
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Ms Badenoch also expanded on her Conservative party conference speech in which she had spoken about her children's identity and ethnicity – who she shares with Hamish Badenoch.
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She said: 'What I think is dangerous is when people start telling others what their identity is.
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