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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is probably the best breakdown of public perceptions of her record:

A close examination of Harris’s record shows it’s filled with contradictions. She pushed for programs that helped people find jobs instead of putting them in prison, but also fought to keep people in prison even after they were proved innocent. She refused to pursue the death penalty against a man who killed a police officer, but also defended California’s death penalty system in court. She implemented training programs to address police officers’ racial biases, but also resisted calls to get her office to investigate certain police shootings.

But what seem like contradictions may reflect a balancing act. Harris’s parents worked on civil rights causes, and she came from a background well aware of the excesses of the criminal justice system — but in office, she played the role of a prosecutor and California’s lawyer. She started in an era when “tough on crime” politics were popular across party lines — but she rose to national prominence as criminal justice reform started to take off nationally. She had an eye on higher political office as support for criminal justice reform became de rigueur for Democrats — but she still had to work as California’s top law enforcement official.

Her race and gender likely made this balancing act even tougher. In the US, studies have found that more than 90 percent of elected prosecutors are white and more than 80 percent are male. As a Black and Indian American woman, Harris stood out — inviting scrutiny and skepticism, especially by people who may hold racist stereotypes about how Black people view law enforcement or sexist views about whether women are “tough” enough for the job.

Still, the result is the same: As she became more nationally visible, Harris was less known as a progressive prosecutor, as she’d been earlier in her career, and more a reform-lite or even anti-reform attorney general. Now critics have labeled her a “cop” — a sellout for a broken criminal justice system.

Sauce is Vox

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Her last name literally means "horrible" in Finnish and from what I've heard that's somewhat accurate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I like her well enough. Would love another love affair like the obamas but that might be once in a lifetime kind of thing.

[–] HobbitFoot 3 points 1 year ago

The last four Vice Presidents have been strong enough to be seen as decent contributors to their administrations; Cheney and Biden have both been at the forefront in representing the Executive Branch in sensitive negotiations.

Harris hasn't seemed to be tapped by this administration to perform the same role. Worse, it feels like this administration has intentionally pulled Harris back while putting Buttigieg in roles that would otherwise go to Harris.

Her position will get her attacked, but it feels like she isn't being defended by the Biden Administration for reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'm not American but I get the impression the left hates her because she's a fairly right wing neoliberal?

When Biden was first elected, I saw one of those "what you order from Wish vs what you get" memes about this.

Had Bernie Sanders & AOC on the "expectation" side and Biden & Harris on the "reality" side.

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

It's crazy how the right screams that Biden is extremely left while he's center at BEST. Just shows how far they continue to shift right. I mean hell, some of them stopped watching Fox "news" because it became too "liberal" for their taste. That should tell you a whole lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s not crazy at all. They want the social expectation of what “far left” is to get established at Biden as a baseline. So they’re going to tie that label as much as they can so that when actual progressives put out a platform they’re seen as completely insane and non-viable despite the rest of the developed world doing it for decades.

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

Doesn't help that she was a prosecutor in California during three strikes. She's basically a cop.

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

I'm more on the opinion that any VP that bleeds will be hated.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kept an innocent man on death row

Supported civil asset forfeiture

Arrested the mother of a disabled girl

And more I’m sure but she was off my list of potential candidates based on any of these alone

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

She is a strong black woman. That is reason enough for people. They will come up with other reasons, just like Hillary. You will hear a lot of “I will vote for a woman. Just not that woman.” Or, “I just don’t like her.” It’s all bullshit. They don’t want to promote a woman.

For those of you who will inevitably downvote me, just ask yourself, do you hate/distrust/dislike Kamala just like you hate/distrust/dislike Hillary? Hmmmmm

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

Yep, they’re here in the comments calling her a cop and a neoliberal. The bar a woman has to clear (and a Black woman at that) to be taken seriously is insane.

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

“I would vote for a woman. Just not that woman.”

I've been hearing that song for decades now. By a sheer coincidence, that woman somehow always happens to be the woman with the best shot of running for president on a Democratic ticket.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

She does not have a shot at running for president lmao.

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

Fine with me. Her favorabity is higher then Trump or Biden. So I think your asking a loaded question.

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

For me, it's this:

[Harris] fought for this law, which raised the financial penalty and made it a criminal misdemeanor for parents, up to a year in jail, when their children missed at least 10 percent of school time.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/10/17/924766186/the-story-behind-kamala-harriss-truancy-program

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I dont like her because she is a fucking cop.

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