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Why is Kamala Harris disliked so much as VP? (www.axios.com)
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She has some criticisms for her past as an attorney, but I’m not sure why she’s so disliked now. What has she done to engender such distaste from the public?

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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

At some point you need to take a degree of personal responsibility and research things for yourself. This isn't a debate, you don't get the luxury of being spoon-fed everything.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Asking people to research things themselves is how you have genius' like op spreading fox news smears but from the left

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    But like this is all common knowledge if you want to have something of use to offer to this conversation. She was the California AG, literally the top policing position. Before that she was San Francisco's DA and ran on a platform of Tough On Crime. She's literally is cop and many would argue by extension, racist, as in systematic.

    As for her neoliberal status, I don't think that needs to be explained.

    I hate when people say "do your own research" as much as the next guy, but there is a certain degree of familiarity with the subject matter that should be expected to participate, even ACAB dude up there knows what he's talking about.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well, her being a cop is self-evident, but let's review the entire comment:

    She's a racist, classist noeliberal and a fucking cop (or close enough).

    Her political career has been chock-full of attacking public institutions like schools, protecting white-collar crime which destroyed countless lives, protecting child molesters in the church, implementing policy against the poor, and protecting prison slavery. I'm not sure where exactly the confusion lies.

    I would argue that, frankly, her being a neoliberal should be explained, for the sake of discussion, but her being racist and classist should be. The details of her career being "chock-full" of various acts should be coupled with specific citations to reporting of those acts. And so on.

    I don't like Harris, mind, but the comment being discussed could have established its evidence in a more convincing manner.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Excuse me, but at some point someone will have to do research themselves, otherwise there won't be any knowledge.

    Also, how do you know anything if you don't do any research yourself? Do you have someone else whisper in your ear to tell you things all the time?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I know things because people teach me. Just like other people know things because i teach them. I dont tell my math students to just read the damn book and figure it out themselves lol. Vast majority of people do not have the critical thinking or media literacy skills to properly research a topic let alone a plethora of them. If you dont wanna expend the energy to properly explain things thats fine, but telling people "just look it up yourself" helps no one

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    This is so lazy. The burden of proof is upon the claimant. Feel free to toss out wild claims without providing anything to support what you are saying, but then don't be surprised when no one believes you.

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