The home secretary’s assertion that multiculturalism has ‘failed’ crosses the line, says the Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
"Multiculturalism has failed" said the daughter of Indian immigrants who came here from Mauritius and Kenya, who is married to a Jewish guy, and whose boss is the country's first Hindu Prime Minister.
She's so pigshit-thick that it's actually insulting to think that she has access to the highest levels of power.
She isn't thick. This is purely ideology in nature.
Yeah, you're probably right. I kinda prefer to think she's thick though, because the alternative is that she's just callously evil.
It's both. You can't not be thick to hold an ideology like hers.
There's an implicit "for the poor" that needs to be appended to these things when they come from Tories. Even then there's no reason to think it's true, but the point being that they don't see themselves as part of the groups they're talking about.