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They've watered it down to the point of meaninglessness. She's not a hire. She's elected. You can't even call it DEI unless you poll every American about why they voted for her.
Spoiler: because she was attached to the ticket.
DEI is just a slur now. It’s their new broad-stroke insult for anyone who isn’t a straight cis white man.
Consider the people who, after the ship hit the bridge, referred to “Baltimore’s DEI mayor.”
Yup, they latch onto concepts that they don't really understand but know are opposed to white superiority: woke, DEI, CRT. Then they use them as a catch all for "bad thing."
She's not a hire.
She was chosen by Joe Biden to be his running mate, after Biden had already cinched the Democrat nomination.
Thank you for elaborating without contradicting.
I mean, it's a pretty key difference that she was only elected in that she was attached to the ticket that people were actually voting for.
she was only elected in that she was attached to the ticket that people were actually voting for.
¿¡ they came as a pair. if either one were so completely distasteful, neither one would have elected. the "ticket" included everyone on it.
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Who is the VP for that other guy? No one knows yet...
I mean, that just kinda proves the point further?
Anybody that's gonna vote for Trump is gonna vote for him regardless of who his VP is. The VP is only TeChNiCaLlY an elected office, because 99.99% of people are voting for the president and not the VP.
At this point, we should be voting on who is chosen as VP. It's almost certain either one will be the 49th. (That is, if we don't go full monarchy and get some Drumpf spawn as 49th "president")
At this point, I think the best thing would be for Biden to run, get re-elected, and then die early in his term to make Kamala Harris the President. I'm not super thrilled about her but I think she's better than just about any other option we've got at the moment.
I just don't trust this fucking electorate to vote for a Black, Indian, Woman for president.
President and Vice President are elected as a team. I'm sorry that you see that as her "not getting elected" because you are wrong.
She was elected Vice President. She is first in line to be President.
Ask Sarah Palin if the VP name on the ticket matters.
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Gorka is a fucking Nazi whose words don't belong in anyone's ears.
I hope she gets the candidacy, not because I'm particularly enthusiastic about her politics (beggers can't be choosers these days), but if for no other reason than to watch the right's wall-eyed, impotent rage.
We got a small taste of that during the Obama years… just imagine what happens when you multiply African-American with South Asian and female! I think we’ll see those whose masks have been slowly cracking through the ‘45’ years go absolutely balls-to-the-wall mask off. It will be an interesting four years to say the least!
Honestly, a part of me wants the Dump to be completely disqualified from running; Biden to step aside; and Nikki Haley to come back from the grave so that there’s a contest between two South Asian women for president. The voting public’s mind would EXPLODE.
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Not a good reason. I'm of the opinion that half the reason we got Trump in 2016 was because the right's wall-eyed rage against Hillary turned out to be not so impotent after all. Everyone thought Trump would lose, but the right hated Hillary so much, it gave even those who were unmotivated by Trump a reason to go out just to vote against her. Anything that motivates the right to get up and go vote is a bad thing.
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Meanwhile a British Hungarian Nazi grifter is essentially a diversity hire for the GOP.
What kind of non-Aryan name is Gorka? I don't think that this guy is white enough in name, and certainly not in looks, to start popping off on ethnicity and race.
It's Polish. So definitely white, but not one of the good white places (to them).
He may be wrong in his motives and his word choice but he's right that the fact that she's black and a woman was just as important as her credentials when she was picked as the VP candidate in 2020. If you don't believe that just go read the post primary articles from that year talking about how Biden needed to pick someone not white as his running mate to pull in minority votes. Obviously this doesn't mean she isn't also qualified but you're kidding yourself if you don't acknowledge the reality that her skin color and gender were both primary factors in her selection. I'm not sure why that's so difficult for people to say out loud.
Because without context it comes across as racist.
Which is exactly what these people are being when they are saying that she is a diversity hire. Basically that she was only hired because she is black/indian, and a woman, not because she is qualified.
He's definitely saying it for racist reasons it just seems odd to me that people usually push back on that by saying race had nothing to do with it. It obviously did it's just not the only factor like he's saying it is.
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Republicans worship the concept of meritocracy as long as the discussion is only about white people and not about billionaires or minorities...
“Colored” fkn lol. Big Kramer energy.
We're supposed to give a shit what racist Count Olaf from Lemony Snicket's thinks!?
You ever seen someone who just wants to scream the N word? I can feel the n word circling his body like it's a pee just pushing at the ancient prostate you know?
Colored
And somehow I’m not surprised that a crusty old racist just straight up used a Jim Crow era descriptor to refer to the VPOTUS..
Fuck racists.
Biden himself gives the impression that Harris is a diversity hire when he repeatedly sidelines her and refuses to step aside and let her take over.
Wow, it's like an NYT Pitchbot headline: "Trump supporters are unapologetic, mask-off bigots. Here's why that reflects poorly on Biden."
My point is, are the Republicans wrong? Is she not a diversity hire? Biden chose her, and he certainly acts like she’s a diversity hire.
If Biden didn’t pick her as a diversity hire, he should act like it.
Edit: Also, the fact that Democrats aren’t all rallying around Harris suggests that Democrats see her as a diversity hire.
They want Buttigieg. They want Newsome. They want Whitmer. They want everyone but Harris.
?? Because he won't step down, the VP is a DEI hire?!
So if the VP was an old white man, and Biden wouldn't step down, still a DEI hire? Ok.
Wouldn't be a DEI hire because he would be white. The commentor you're replying to is just showing his racism.
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This guy has a radio show that I found while searching for a station in the rural south. It is oddly fascinating (and enraging) to listen to on long drives.
The people calling in are especially... Enlightening? It's particularly interesting how many easily disprovable outright falsehoods that people fervently believe and want to call in to talk about.
Gorka much prefers nepotistic hires, like the kind you find in the governments of China, Russia and Trump's cabinet.
Considering nobody likes her I don't think he's wrong. She's like Biden only even more right wing and pro-police.
Still better than Trump.
Obviously but I don't believe in whataboutism and I don't see what this has to do with Trump.
I hate that lemmy has become reddit. Downvoted for stating facts. You can easily Google "Kamala Harris favorability" and her political positions.
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Yet under that logic, he's one of those born outside the US poisoning the country.
Despite my general pacifism, I think this sort of person is best judged by the theoretical punch-ability of their face. Gorka is "I'm gonna need a baseball bat" level.
The good news is that not even the Trumpkins like him.
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