Not commenting on the Beckett thing, but generally: I notice a lot of commentary on how Patel can be so anti-immigration given her heritage. It's very widespread, including among people I admire. And it's actually a bit messed up.
I get it emotionally. There are members of my Latino family in the US who voted Trump, which made me furious at the time with the lack of solidarity.
But people are not defined by their ethnicity. Acting like Asians are betraying their heritage because they have right-wing views, or take anti-immigration positions, basically robs them of the freedom of political conscience which white people enjoy.
Saying this stuff applies a kind of uniformity to ethnic minorities, a set of restraints in their freedom of thought which are not applied to others. And you can cut that whichever way you like, but it's not OK.
In short, everyone has the capacity - and the freedom - to be catastrophically wrong. Judge people on what they do, rather than their heritage.
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