She's a woman of color.
So what?
"The contrast between Vice President #KamalaHarris and convicted felon Donald Trump could not be more clear, and that contrast should benefit Harris in every conceivable way.
I don’t know, or care, if America is “ready” to have a Black woman president right now, because America has more than enough time to get itself ready.
This is what we’re doing now. Harris is how we beat that guy."
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/america-is-ready-for-first-black-woman-president/
Listen up, this is important, it tells you how to help out #KamalaHarris as the frightwing, who are scared of a powerful woman of color, unleashes an all-out attack on her womanness and coloredness.
"Three female PhDs say their research demonstrates that practically any characteristic can be proclaimed problematic to question a woman’s competence and suitability for leadership."
And they have advice on how to counter that.
At every level, women are attacked for being a woman. We don't have to accept it.
FLIP IT TO TEST IT is a "simple, yet effective, tool to reduce such bias-laden criticisms."
"George Washington doesn't have kids how can he be a good president."
When you make people laugh, you win!
PLUS: you don't have to be the one attacked: anyone can be an ally.
Be that ally: at the workplace, among family and friends, at school. Extra points for being a white male ally!
EVERYBODY Dem needs to be an ally now:
"Democrats — elected officials, campaign strategists, donors and voters — have entered a binding you-broke-it-you-bought-it pact with Harris: They must recognize that she’s on a “glass cliff,” [where] a woman is elevated to the top only in a time of crisis. And all Democrats must recognize that by pushing Biden out of the race, they’re now responsible for Harris’s success."
(Yes, NYT
Make an exception for Charles M Blow).
Watch out for propaganda being parroted by the mainstream media:
"USA Today, for one, brought helpful context in a piece headlined: “DEI candidate: what’s behind the GOP attacks on Kamala Harris.” It did a good job of explaining that this phrase is all part of the right’s anti-“woke” culture wars."
Be like the USA Today, media.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/26/kamala-harris-media
And don't believe - and share - everything you see. First apply the "Flip It To Test It" method, above in this thread.
Carole Cadwalladr, who has also been called a childless cat lady:
"But there are things that only veterans of the childless cat lady wars can know. They used to call us witches because we knew shit. We still do. That’s what makes us so powerful. And dangerous. That’s what JD Vance understands: our cat lady energy. We’ve lived through culture wars before they even had that name, before they invented memes and when they just burned us at the stake."
"In 2016, Russia attacked Clinton in exactly the same way that Trumpworld attacked Clinton, in exactly the same way that they are attacking Kamala.
We now know how the Kremlin paid in roubles for Facebook to pump those messages out across US social media. We now know that Cambridge Analytica, on behalf of the Trump campaign, created an anonymous Crooked Hillary campaign that it fed into the “bloodstream of the internet”.
Neither invented misogyny. They just used it."
Watch out for red herrings
"As a philosophy professor, this is how I explain the [red herring] fallacy to my students: If the argument is not going your opponent's way, a common strategy — though a fallacious and dishonorable one — is to divert attention from the real issue by raising an issue that is only tangentially related to the first."
https://www.salon.com/2023/05/13/how-big-oil-is-manipulating-the-way-you-think-about-climate-change/
Think "DEI hire", "childless cat lady".
There will be more of that, a lot more.
Don't fall for it.
Beware of Twitter's misinformation machine.
"Stop using Twitter for news. Do this in preparation for the tsunami of disinformation coming in October. The site cannot be trusted and will harm your brain this fall."
https://www.theframelab.org/beware-trumps-secret-weapon-elon-musks-x-twitter/
This is powerful,
thanks to @ryanrandall for the link.
"So far, Harris and Walz are campaigning as though the nation’s limited imagination about what power looks like could be malleable. Against so many expectations, Harris looks and sounds like a president, even though no other president has ever looked like her.
That is why the Harris campaign has managed to wrest the media narrative from the G.O.P.
In many ways, only a Black woman could have done that.
I'm not into fearmongering but we need to know about this: Seems the social media channels, where millions of people get their news, are now much more vulnerable to disinfomation:
"Twitter, now X, has sacked at least half its trust and safety team. But then so has every tech company we know about. Thousands of workers previously employed to sniff out misinformation have been laid off by Meta, TikTok, Snap and Discord."
But AI can do a better job,
NOT
I think evidence has proven otherwise, AI of course does not sue for damages due to the trauma of some of the online content out there.
I think Meta got sued recently over this.
