Annoyed and disgusted by the anti-Kamala racism, but it's all in one basket
..it's not as if this tactic is going to appeal to the voters the GOP needs to fill out their maga card beyond their party cultists.
It's not like a whispering campaign where it's easy to sidle up to someone using coded racism without any overt attacks; loaded terms like unqualified, street, DEI, and the rest are so old and tired that they immediately define the person baiting to most of us.
Republicans used to get mileage in the pre-Trump era with winks and nods, instead of the racist tropes that many in that party have become comfortable using outwardly and publicly in their political rhetoric.
Thing is, it's now clear that those despicable people are well anchored to the republican party. There's very little safe room today for anyone in our party to associate themselves with clearly derogatory language centered on the race of an individual or group in America like crime, poverty, and welfare were used as political cudgels against black Americans by members of both parties in my own past.
Racists are so republican these days. It's become their standard, primary, and open appeal to identify themselves apart from anything other than their whiteness, and to condemn all else as inferior to their own identity.
That's where racists reside. The republican party has become a haven for racists in this election, to the degree that none other will be able to identify with them, lest they taint themselves with maga vileness and pathetic displays of insecurity and self-loathing.
So I watched the reports about this, and right away put it all in one basket. There's no misunderstanding, or any common thread of opportunistically placed concern about the people maga hates on in almost every expression; their hatred amplified and targeted now toward the emerging Democratic nominee.
Kamala Harris' blackness is an exclusively republican concern in this election which is not shared at all by the vast majority of Democrats who see her ascension as an opportunity for all Americans to advance and succeed.
It is concerning that one entire party has degenerated even further below their previous low state, and has surrendered to the very worst of instincts and attitudes in our communities.
But the voters and others who are attracted to those despicable appeals to hatred aren't worth the worry in this campaign. It's a republican thing, not something Democrats tolerate in any way.
Racism is a dividing and limiting relic of the past, and our Democratic party and nominee is a harbinger of our nation's diverse and inclusive future. We are not bound as a nation by old, discredited attitudes and opinions.
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I thought repugnant racism was officially a good thing on Earth 2. ??? Like coups and insurrectionists and continuous lying and cheating and rigging everything in order to "win" and take all the money and power. I'm sure the lying, cheating, sexist, convicted felon Birther King approves of it all as the only true, holy way of life.
