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You couldn’t mention her name around here without a bandwagon of “She’s the literal genocide queen and a vote for her is a vote to murder Palestinian children.”
I mean, she did support the genocide. Which murdered tens of thousands of Palestinian children. What is your point?
Thank you for illustrating my point. And I’m sure you feel like Trump is doing a fantastic job with human rights, at home and abroad (when he comes up for air while gargling Bibi’s balls, of course).
Why don't you just go have a nice tea party with the little strawman you've created?
The only thing Trump is doing a great job at is destroying the US. Whether that's good or not, debatable.
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"
Yes! Thank you. This is exactly my point. You’ve illustrated it perfectly 😘
Since you mentioned the name, I did notice quite obviously the disrespect everyone had toward Kamala Harris in the news and online comments simply due what they called her.
Almost everywhere, it was quite common for people to refer to her as Kamala and not Harris.
I suspect it was either due to her being a woman, or due to her being Indian (Kamala sounds a lot more foreign than Harris).
It was always "Kamala vs Trump" never Harris vs Trump or Kamala vs Donald.
I usually use Harris, but I'm not gonna lie, her first name is cool and it's fun to say so sometimes I'd use it instead
Because that's the more unique and thus memorable part of her name. Just like "Bernie" is more memorable than "Sanders".
It wasn't a sign of disrespect, sexism, or othering to call Bernie by his first name, and it wasn't in the case of Kamala Harris either.
Anyone who says otherwise is likely grasping at straws to explain away the fact that it was mostly her policy positions and allegiance to Biden, corporations, and Israel over the people she was SUPPOSED to represent that lost her the election rather than bigotry.
I assumed it was the woman aspect, hadn’t even considered the foreign aspect.
https://news.asu.edu/20170721-solutions-asu-mayo-study-how-female-doctors-introduced
I have a really hard time remembering how to pronounce her first name because I know someone with the same spelling but different pronunciation, (and I read the news, don’t watch it) so to avoid saying it wrong I only ever said Harris.
That sounds exactly like something those Sandersbros would do, they're basically indistinguishable from r/TheTrump.
You mean like calling Sanders "Bernie"? Funny how you changed it to Sandersbros so you could defame people without immediately looking like an idiot
Satire is well and truly dead.
I guess r/TheDonald has been gone too long for people to get that reference.
Point being, politicians are frequently referred to by their first names by supporters and detractors alike.
But "around here" is representative of what? 5% of voters? 16% of democratic voters max? Let's not pretend Lemmy users represent a sizable number of democratic voters.
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