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When Harris had to pick a VP, all media kinda agreed it should be a white male, to balance the fact that she is black and a woman. So Walz is the DEI hire. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you ask me, I'm upset no one picked up that this consideration was sexist and racist, although it is indeed the best choice for her to win, which reflects how bad US can't get over race and gender.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It’s worse than that - it’s like how he and his cronies choose not to call her “Harris” like everyone else calls him “Trump” or the president “Biden.” No one says “Joe,” or “Donald,” or “Barack.” So to add insult to disrespectful injury, they refuse to actually say her name correctly. Hence the “Kamabla” shit he’s been doing too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've noticed that too. It was the same with "Hillary."

Using the last name is a sign of respect that they don't think women deserve.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I almost used her as an example but I didn’t want to deal with the inevitable “it’s so she isn’t confused with her husband.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was having this conversation the other day. Pelosi came up as a counterexample.

Now I'm not sure where the line is between subtle disrespect and simply using the more distinctive part of a candidate's name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do see a lot of republicans just call her “Nancy” but she definitely gets more references to her last name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Huh, I haven't really heard people call her "Nancy". Last time I recall her coming up amongst Republicans, it was "Pelosi" with a reference to the attack on her husband.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump called her Nancy a lot IIRC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I could never bear to watch any of his speeches. Too cringe painful.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Kamala" is hard to pronounce, yet they never had a problem with "Barack Hussein Obama pause for the scary middle-eastern/Islamic-sounding name to sink into racist audience"

And I love when Palin got called out directly for that and she backpedaled so hard, trying to make it sound like they always do that with everyone and started rattling off republican full names like that made a single bit of difference...

Can we get a truth-o-meter to scrutinize all candidates during debates like they do in futurama?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly! It’s not hard to pronounce, it’s just not intuitive. I used to say “Kuh-MAH-luh” too. One correction and I stopped. “Kah-mah-la” is easy for native English speakers. They are perfectly capable of saying it they just don’t want to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The one thing I find difficult about it is that I've heard it mispronounced so many times, I have to consciously think about which version is correct. I blame right-wing assholes for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Valid