To worry for Kamala Harris - woman, half black, half Asian, married to a Jewish man

[Whenwillitgetwarm]

I really really hope her and her family have the strongest mental resilience for the racism, misogyny and anti-semitism which will come towards her and them, just for the crime of running for president.

Yes she’s been a bit of a wallflower and we haven’t seen much of her whilst VP but maybe that will change now she’s out on her own. She’s had a successful career as a lawyer and seems nice.

Personally I’m going to avoid listening/watching American politics in the run up to the election as I think I’d be too anxious. Many people seem to treat politics like a football rivalry these days. But if she were to win, it would be so inspiring for so many girls around the world.

Oh and,
She's Not As Good As (looks around for another black female comparison, doesn't matter that they are not a politician and not running for the nomination ) Michelle Obama.

She is not a wall flower she is currently vice president and whilst I’m sure she has at some point had to endure some racism and sexism in her world I bet she does not let it define her. If you do that you fold in on yourself and become a victim and not a survivor. I’m mixed race and it’s a mentality that is to be avoided. I also find white people seem to do a lot of hand wringing about this, just stop with white guilt it’s actually unhelpful and creates division in a different way to racists but it’s still there.

Just seen her speech yesterday, wow! she came out swinging. About time.

Love how she brought out her experiences as a prosecutor and how she's dealt with sexual abusers and fraudsters before. That she knows exactly Donald Trump's type as she's dealt with his kind before.

I think she's going to be just fine 🙂

History is being made people, sit back and enjoy the moment.

YANBU I worry now too, especially with how women are treated in America. Well not just America, but world-wide, although America seems particularly virently misogynist. Btw she is half black and half Indian. 0 Asian in her.

In answer to the OP- yes she is going to to get a brutal amount of hatred thrown at her if she gets the top job. I watched a News Agents podcast and they said Barack Obama used to get 30 death threats / day. Expect double this plus all the torture rape- death threats which pretty much every woman on telly from Mary Beard to Holly Willoughby to Saffie Osborne gets.
She'll probably get even more than Diane Abbott gets. They'll have to have extra office space at the White House for everyone sifting though the shit.

With the people who are already fanatical about him maybe, but they are going to turn out and vote for him anyway.

I think the focus of the Democrats' campaign should be to get people who think it doesn't matter, or who have become resigned, or disillusioned to get behind them and show up to vote. A big target for them is the women's rights vote.

You left out "and she's faced no misogyny at all"

I agree. Trump supporters will always vote for Trump, that's a given and largely irrelevant because that's not her target audience.

She needs to go after independent swing voters, moderate Republicans and the female vote. This is where the election will be decided.

Prosecutor Vs Convicted Felon, love how they're now framing that.

To add, as a former prosecutor she will have faced many very credible death threats just trying to do her job. I think she's no stranger to what's ahead.

"she's in the grip of the panglobal secret alien paedo lizard people who are conspiring to subjugate the world"

Well that just goes with being a Democrat anyway. Proof: support from Clintons. Check her cellar! Does she like pizza?

(Yeah um, I am joking actually. You have to spell it out these days because it's not as obvious as you might hope.)

In the UK, "Asian" refers to people from the Indian subcontinent i.e. of Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi/Sri Lankan heritage.

Appalonia · Yesterday 13:06
Have you actually listened to any of her speeches? Woman is practically incoherent at times. I think she would be a disaster!
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Oh well, watching her and Trump debate each other will be entertaining.”

Nonsense. Her speech last night was erudite, witty and sharp. She will wipe the floor with Trump. I very much doubt he’ll agree to debate because now, he’s the old man who goes off at a tangent.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1815114243265708128.html

This thread ticks a lot of boxes

It was reported yesterday in a Telegraph article posted on another thread that Trump is refusing to debate Harris. I think we all know why.

Nevertheless some of the misogyny on this thread has shocked me

Again, Kamala Harris’ roles as both the San Fransisco DA and California Attorney General were won by city wide and state wide popular vote, respectively. Then of course she was elected to the Senate

The only major office to which she was in some sense appointed is VP

That's strange. They're Middle Eastern or Arabic everywhere else. It would be like calling a Swedish person an African, that's how much sense calling Middle Easterners Asian makes. What would you call actual Asians - ie Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean etc, then?

. Well not just America, but world-wide, although America seems particularly virently misogynist.
What an ignorant post.
Have you been to the USA? Or anywhere outside of Europe?

And it's virulently. HTH

She doesn't seem able to explain anything beyond the way you would communicate to an over excited toddler with little understanding of the world - I don't care what her ethnicity or colour she is a complete moron.

Ahem. The Indian subcontinent is pretty firmly located in Asia!! "Asian" was historically shorthand for Indian/Pakistani people in the UK, as they are by far the UK's largest non European immigrant population, although nowadays "South Asian" is used too. The blanket term in the UK for Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese etc people would be "East Asian".

The Middle East to me would be anywhere from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Arabian peninsula to Iran/Iraq to some of the southern ex Soviet States, although that's off the top of my head.

@crackofdoom yes, where I live in the US, people of Indian or Pakistani descent generally refer to themselves as South Asian. Presumably because those countries are in South Asia, which is pretty vast. 🤷

People from the Indian subcontinent are not in any sense "Middle Eastern or Arabic" - what an utterly bizarre statement - literally no-one thinks this, let alone "everywhere else." In fact in the Middle East (and in Africa), the usage of "Asian" is the same as the British usage.

What you refer to as "actual Asians" would generally be termed "East Asian" in the UK, although many people would still use the somewhat outdated term "oriental".

You might want to take a look at a map at some point to find out what Asia actually is - it's a much bigger part of the world than you appear to think it is.

You may or may not care for KH. That’s fine. But she has been elected District Attorney of San Fransisco and Attorney General of CA (which would be in the G7 ranking ahead of Britain economically if it were a country) then Senator whilst riding on no one’s coat tails.

Many people obviously like her communications style and the work she has done in those jobs. Perhaps she is not a moron after all.

@ThatMauveSnake exactly

She is batshit 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Such literacy. Why do you say this?