‘A continuum of nasty’

Sååå, Trump behandler alle lige uanset race, køn eller homosexualitet. Det kunne man igen, igen, igen konstatere efter hans korte optræden hos National Assembly of Black Journalists. Venstrefløjen ved ikke om DEI godt eller skidt. På den ene side, er det et princip, der nidkært skal gennemtvinges ud i alle samfundets sprækker. På den anden side optræder det også som et skældsord, for ingen sort, homoseksuel eller inkompetent må betvivles på sine meritter. Hele ideen om identitet, er alt, hvad Demokraterne har tilbage, og med Harris, en sort-indisk-jamaikansk kvinde, står de stærkt overfor den gamle hvide patriark. 

Hele ideen med at konfrontere Trump med sorte og kun kvindelige journalister som spørgere, var at sætte ham i en penibel situation, så man ville have nogle korte klip at køre resten af valgkampen med. Men Trump er Trump og med et instinkt der får ham til at sige “Fight! Fight! Fight!” efter at være blevet skudt i hovedet, skal der mere end nogle selvretfærdige venstretosser uanset for sorte i huden de måtte være, bringes han ikke ud af fatning.

Fra første færd, var det ladede spørgsmål – spørgsmål, der består af flere mere eller mindre sammenhængende spørgsmål, man ikke meningsfyldt kan forsvare sig imod – som den måde Trump havde omtalt forskellige sorte på, uden hensyn til den måde han generelt omtaler sine modstandere, om de er hvide, mænd, kvinder, bøsser eller vat-arme. Men Trump skød igen med, hvad flere har betegnet som et større end “Only Rosie O’Donneil” øjeblik, at skose spørgeren for sin uopdragne opførsel, for at være forsinket med ½ time og for at arbejde på et skod-medie. Og så tilføjede han, at han havde været den bedste præsident for sorte siden Abraham Lincoln og beskyldte derpå værterne for at have inviteret ham på falske betingelser, siden Kamala Harris ikke var til stede som lovet.

Det var mageløst at opleve, hvor meget man har glemt, hvor god han egentlig er, om det er en vandflaske henover forsvaret af patrioterne til afmonteringen af modstanderens eneste eksistensberettigelse – BEHOLD…

Scott Adams var, med udgangspunkt i dette klip fra CNN, benovet over Trumps teknik, i at overbevise, persuade, sit publikum og beskrev på X, hvorledes man først skal acceptere en illusion for at nedbryde den

Trump ACCEPTED the Democrat worldview that identity is the key variable, then casually discussed the incongruity of Harris in terms of her identity. And he did it in front of an audience organized by their identity.

This particular persuasion will continue to sink in, to marinate, and to get more powerful over time.

The losing play in this situation would have been to argue against using identity to choose candidates. That would be a non-starter. Instead, he “entered their illusion” and left a huge turd in the middle of their living room.

(…)

Embrace and Amplify and Reductio ad absurdum are related but a little different from Entering Your Illusion.

Embrace and Amplify is usually just “following the rules” to prove they don’t work. The rule-makers in this case are just bad managers, not gaslighters.

Reductio ad absurdum is more of an argument than an action.

Entering Your Illusion is like entering a gaslight-inspired play as a character, and staying in character so you can ruin the illusion without criticizing it.

But they all involve some form of pretending to “accept the absurdity.”

Let the show begin!

MSNBCs Ari Melber mente at Trumps optræden var så forfærdeligt, at han ikke ville vise sine seere klip, men istedet forklarede dem selv. “Donald Trump falsely suggested Kamala Harris had misled voters about her race as the former president appeared before the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago Wednesday.” skrev Associated Press forskrækket. Axios faktatjekkede at “there are no Black jobs in the U.S., because there is not any kind of racial requirement for employment.” og konkluderede stik imod kravet om DEI

When it comes to Black employment, the presidential election seems to involve a choice between two opposing visions of what’s possible, with a Democratic candidate whose candidacy implicitly shows that Black people can do anything and an opponent telling a very different story.

For nogle år tilbage deltog Harris i et indslag “How Harris Indian Roots Shaped Her Political Views”. CNNs Don Lemon selv i tvivl om, hvorledes man kunne være ‘sort’ med Kamalas baggrund. Hun demonstrerede sine indiske kulinariske rødder, som gik i hånd med den ny-traditionelle fejring af Kwanzaa, som var den direkte følge af de borgerretsmarcher hun jævnligt deltog i, som hun råbte “Fweedom!” fra klapvognen. Ifølge Judge Joe Brown var Harris “a frat whore”, så hun er for alle, hvad hun tror de gerne vil have hun skal være.

En hvid CNN journalist iklædt en Air Jordan t-shirt(!), rapporterede fra en ‘sort’ frisørsalon, hvor stemningen var, at Kamala ikke var sort eller i hvert fald højest sort-asiatisk. Det kaldte på et modsvar hjemme i studiet, hvor værten kunne betro seerne, at de fleste selvidentificerende sorte han havde kontakt til via sit radioshow, betragtede Kamala som sort og alt andet var blot lav-informations-vælgere. De herrer, som CNN lige havde udspurgt på tv, blev straks kategoriseret som lav-informations vælgere – “a huge turd in the middle of their living room”!

Mens Trump altså stillede op til en ‘debat’ med foreningen for journalister, der er sorte og ingen andre hudfarver end sort, og blev beskyldt for racisme, holdt Kamalas tilhængere virtuelle valgmøder ligeledes opdelt efter hudfarven. Eller racetilhørsforholdet, om man vil. Først de hvide fyre for Kamala

White Dudes For Kamala Harris meeting starts off by attacking masculinity:

“The idea that men can gather to talk about how we feel” The Lord of the Rings actor Sean Astin supports “white dudes for Kamala Harris” because he wants men to talk to other men about their feelings.

NEW: Pete Buttigieg says politics is all about “vibes” and says the vibes on the White Dudes for Harris call is “incredible.” “So much politics is just vibes. Having said that, the vibes right now are incredible.” The former mayor later discussed about how important abortion is for men because it makes them “more free.”

White Debocrats realizing they can meet without admitting their racism…

Hollywood actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt calls Trump a ‘con man’ during ‘White Dudes for Harris’ event. “Let’s just say Donald Trump is a successful business man. I don’t think he is. Is it because he’s an honest businessman or is it because he’s a conman?”

.@Tim_Walz: “How often in 100 days do you get to change the trajectory of the world? And how often in the world do you make that bastard wake up afterwards and know that a Black woman kicked his ass and sent him on the road?”

Jeff Bridges has joined the “White Dudes for Kamala Harris.” My day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable.

Fordi det ikke skulle være kønsdiskriminerende, valgte man også at have et ‘hvide kvinder’ for Kamala, Eller ‘Karens for Kamala’, som ufølsomme X profiler døbte dem. Daily Mail beskrev det således

‘White Women for Harris’ attracted more than 164,000 participants — so many that the platform struggled to meet the demand. It was headlined by the likes of singer Pink and soccer star Megan Rapinoe

One of the lesser known speakers was social media influencer Arielle Fodor, who goes by the name ‘Mrs. Frazzled’ who some saw as asking white women to ‘bow down’ to people of color by supporting Harris.

‘Bipoc women have tapped us in as white women to step up, listen and get involved this election season, this is a really important time and we all need to use our voices and 

influence for the greater good.’ 

BIPOC is an acronym that stands for black, indigenous, and other people of color. 

Hov, hvorledes kom den grafik frem der? Anyways, lad os se på det

“Karens for Kamala. As white women, we have privileges bestowed on us by white male counterparts.” This is a modern struggle session:

This “Karens for Kamala” Zoom call is my nightmare fuel. Freddy Krueger can’t compete against Sharon from Human Resources trying to save America.

The “weird” white woman who went viral during a Women’s Kamala Zoom call is a teacher turned influencer whose TikTok account is even more cringe than her Zoom incident. “Mrs Frazzled” is known for talking to her TT audience as if she is speaking to 5-year-olds. She covers an array of topics in her “teacher voice” on TT where she boasts 1.3 million followers. So cringe.

This was a video from our favorite “White Women for Kamala” from August of 2021. Of course this was her take about forcing vaccines. What an awful person. (I had to record off another phone since she has taken down the ability to save her videos on her old Tik Toks.)

Som Adams påpeger er racismen i USA så massiv “…that a woman has to claim to be black just to run for president”.