Claiming every disagreement is founded in racism, however, is merely a poor debate tactic designed to hide the reality that the complainer has nothing substantive on which to stand.
Absolutely true. But of course that is not at all what Kamala Harris argues, or represents.
This thread is not about harris as a person, or even harris as a vp choice, but whether the reaction to her is fueled primarily by wacism, as per the op.
the argument made in the op and though out the thread, from your side, is that it is.
and biden, was clear, he went looking not for the best choice for vp, but for a woman, ,and really almost certainly a woman of color.
that was not us bringing up race, but biden doing so.
I am not a supporter of the DNC or the Democratic Party generally, but it is clear to me — and I think also to any fair minded person — that while Harris is a Democratic Party politician she is no fire-breathing radical, no racial panderer. Instead she is a rather centrist Democrat who embraces in her personal and political life a perfectly inclusive view of what America is and ought to be — a “melting pot” of people with a uniquely democratic culture.
That is a good presentation of your position. I would argue that the mainstream democratic party is all about racial pandering, as demonstrated by the way she was picked. and again, this thread is not about her, but whether the reaction to her is based on wacism. so, when we conservatives respond to that accusation we are completely on topic.
Harris is obviously a formidable candidate, far sharper and competent than the aging Biden. She would, unlike Biden, prove a powerful opponent to the demagogic Trump in any head-to-head debate.
I appreciate that she would do better than an aging and tired biden. it is interesting that she lost to him in the dem primaries. badly. Trump will not be debating harris. Pence will.
in both cases, i feel fine about the republicans chances.
She embodies a modern sensibility and practical savvy as a party politician claiming to represent “the people.” She is however also a woman, daughter of immigrants, went to Howard University, was in the largest black woman’s sorority in America, as a child was “bused” to an integrated school, and had a brief affair 25 years ago with the famous Willie Brown.
I agree she embodies the modern sensibility of the conventional wisdom. The way she demanded to be above the rules of the presidential debate and lectured biden, a man old enough to be her father, like he was a dim witted child, is just what I see as the current status quo and what I am done with. no more.
Of course her politics also have won the enthusiast support of many billionaires.
Seriously, do you really consider this a point in her favor, and if so, why?
All the above makes her to some just “a half-black, white marrying whore” — and it is this above all that constitutes the special “Harris Dilemma.” Her selection as a candidate, as in the case of Obama, makes her a target and celebrity both — inevitably part of the ongoing American racial conversation / “dilemma.”
that you point to your position views on her, as what causes the negative reaction to her, from her political enemies,
is not fair or reasonable.
You say she is mainstream and not radical. but you don't back that up, with policy positions or actions on her part, to support it. you just say it. and then imply that her going to a black school is what is motivating the ideological and partisan opposition to her.
you don't explain how or why, it is just asserted....
and you wonder why i call wacism, wacism.