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ICYMI, Adam Serwer’s “The REAL DEI Candidates”
“…Many *#conservatives* have focused on #DEI not because of their moral & sometimes practical objections to #diversity efforts…but because it allows THEM to express underlying assumptions about the inherent inferiority of #Black people & #women implicitly, w/o sounding like THEY are making those assumptions themselves.“
#racism #CultureWars #BS
#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/real-dei-candidates/679880/
“This way they can argue that it is not that THEY think #Black people & #women are inferior; it is that #diversity initiatives inherently elevate people who are unqualified. For example, when #Harris announced that she & her running mate, MN Gov #TimWalz, would do the traditional postconvention interview w/both of them (as #Trump & his running mate, #JDVance, did), #conservatives suggested that she must be incapable of being interviewed alone.”
#racism #CultureWars #DEI
#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
“After #Harris’s performance on Tues, #conservatives tried to reconcile the difference between their perception of her as an idiot & the reality of what they saw onstage. #ConspiracyTheories abounded—#Trump insisted that she’d had the questions beforehand, while conservatives on social media speculated that she had speakers in her earrings that were telling her what to say.”
“I don’t want to overstate the importance of debating—being a good debater says little about whether you would be a good president—but the right’s assumptions about #Harris’s intellectual capacity were clearly invalidated by her performance.
“Now, it would be simpler for #conservatives who claimed Harris was an imbecile to admit that maybe the current VP & fmr senator, AG, & DA is just smarter than they were giving her credit for.“
“But that would require abandoning the assumptions about #Black people & #women that drove them to make their initial assessment. They cannot do that, because doing so would illustrate why #diversity efforts are necessary in the first place: that plainly competent people are often wrongly assumed to be stupid because they are not white men, & denied opportunities as a result.”
“…#Conservatives have taken to referring to #DEI as ‘didn’t earn it.’ But to the extent that the candidates are running on #unearned #advantages related to personal bio, this better describes #Trump & #JDVance than it does #Harris, who #worked her way up from local to state to federal office over the course of decades.
“Trump was born a #multimillionaire who drove one business after another into the ground, & his reputation as a brilliant businessman is largely due to him playing one on TV.
“#Trump’s term as president was mired by #incompetence & #corruption despite being relatively uneventful, & when faced w/a real #crisis—the #coronavirus #pandemic—he proceeded to #bungle it in a #catastrophic fashion that led to needless #deaths & economic #calamity.
“#JDVance has spent very little time in elected office, an office he won mostly on the success of his memoir & a Trump primary endorsement in a red state. He appears to have been selected as the VP nominee on the basis of his willingness to #debase himself on #Trump’s behalf. Neither of them has a compelling record of #PublicService.”
@Nonilex A Vance presidency will be so much more dangerous even than a tfg presidency. #Project2025
@Nonilex It’s probably too much to hope for, but it would be nice if the moderators of the Vice Presidential debate ask some questions that shine a light on the candidates’ knowledge of important issues, policies, factual information, etc.
@Nonilex oh, lots of these folks going mask off, very much including #richlowry
Is #classcarpetbagger a thing, 'cuz that's the #JDVance vibe
