'DEI,' 'Colored,' 'Jezebel': MAGA Attacks on Kamala Harris Are Getting Ugly

[Bundbuster]

The right can barely contain its racist, sexist contempt for Biden’s likely 2024 replacement.

In just the past day, Harris has been targeted by resurgent “birthers” who claim she’s not a natural born citizen and by Trumpy Bible-thumpers who claim she’s a biblical “Jezebel” — a reference to a temptress who misled the faithful into idolatry and sexual depravity. GOP Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said that “100 percent, she was a DEI hire” insisting of Biden’s choice of Harris: “When you go down that route, you get mediocrity.”

The attacks from the far right are as predictable as they are distasteful — reflecting a “based” far-right culture that sees unvarnished expressions of bigotry as a virtue. The attacks center on Harris’ race and gender, and frequently include the claim, as Burchett did, that she is a “DEI” candidate. While technically shorthand for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” DEI has taken on the function of a coded slur that right wingers can now hurl at minorities. (As the journalist Eric Kleefeld puts it: “DEI is pronounced with a hard-R sound.”) While primarily wielded against people of color, it’s also used to attack women and LGBTQ Americans.

Jackson Lahmeyer, the head of Pastors for Trump and a former GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Oklahoma posted on July 3 on X that “Both Joe + the Ho gotta go.” He responded to critics of his sexist attack with rejoinders like: “The biblical term is whore if you feel safer with that word,” adding that “harlot is also another option haha.”

Both Joe + the Ho gotta go! https://t.co/HQMRnQ52Fy

— Jackson Lahmeyer (@JacksonLahmeyer) July 4, 2024

The Murdoch-owned New York Post dressed up its DEI broadside at Harris in the form of a business column. The author of the book Go Woke, Go Broke, Charles Gasparinio,wrote under the screamer headline: “America may soon be subjected to the country’s first DEI president: Kamala Harris.” Gasparino, whose bio reportedly used to falsely claim that he was a Pulitzer nominee, also took aim at the VP’s intelligence. He called Harris — the Howard University and U.C. Hastings Law graduate, former San Francisco DA, former California attorney general, former U.S. senator, and current vice president — “the most irrepressibly fatuous politician in America,” and claimed her rise to the nomination would only come because the “Democratic Party is unable to break its DEI stranglehold.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maga-republicans-racist-sexist-attacks-kamala-harris-1235065295/

[wnylib]

1. So send them a pic of Vance's wife with a caption

about people in glass houses throwing stones.

[MaryMagdaline]

2. This is what pretty girls and women go through. She's dealt with this her whole life.

[whathehell]

13. YES..Misogyny at it's ugliest!

[Scrivener7]

3. Let them stew in it. It'll only help her win.

[malaise]

4. Eff them

Won’t even read their shit

[canetoad]

29. I second that eff nt

[malaise]

32. LOL

😀

[calguy]

5. The uglier they get

The more they'll bring the wrath of the youth vote and women's vote against them.
If Kamala's first speech is an indicator of the campaign she's about to prosecute, trump is already dead meat. He's going to prison after he's been beaten and humiliated in November. No republican will dare touch him after Kamala cuts him up for bait.

[Bundbuster]

14. THIS

Every subhuman Magat cry of poison bile should redouble the efforts of all people of conscience to crush the orange shitstain and his cult.

[Rubyshoo]

17. Iḿ Stealing That Toon !!!

Thanks

[Rubyshoo]

16. Yep... Letś Expose The Entire Heaping Pile Of Dung For All To See

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

(Somebody famous said that.)

[BOSSHOG]

6. When ya hire black folk, ya get Mediocrity

Said a red state philosopher touting his conservative values bonafides.

A Pastor for trump coined Joe and the Ho Gotta Go. Touting his Christian conservative values bonafides. And I hazard a guess, enjoying a tax exempt status.

DEI Stranglehold. Radical right wing Christian conservative nazi speak for equal employment opportunity.

[whathehell]

18. I think you mean Black folk and Women of All Colors.

...That "pastor" is disgraceful.

[Docreed2003]

7. Let them show their true colors

Fuck em and their racism that belongs in another century.

[alarimer]

8. Does it not occur to them that they need more than racists to win?

I mean, they are not the sharpest tools in the drawer, but still this is ...counterproductive.

Not that I am complaining that they are revealing their true selves.

[TwilightZone]

9. They've been ugly ever since Biden chose her for VP four years ago.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/15/902756963/trumps-attacks-on-harris-are-a-return-to-familiar-territory

[Wounded Bear]

19. They've been ugly since 1619...

[TwilightZone]

21. This would be true.

My post was specific to Kamala, since that's who the OP is about, but they do have a bit of a history before that.

I'm pretty sure she wasn't around in 1619. Unless she's a witch! Christine O'Donnell unavailable for comment.

[lpbk2713]

10. Tell me pastor ...

what do you think of a rethuglican US Congresswoman who gives
her companion a handjob on their first date in a movie theater?

[Pisces]

11. We play their game when we respond to this stupidity. Who cares what they say or do. We need to be focused

On what we want the message to be. They don’t set the conversation WE DO!! We own the narrative now we need to stay on point and not get distracted by their nonsense.

[B.See]

15. Exactly. Didn't even bother to READ any of it because

I know it's all hateful, racist, rabble rousing BULLSHIT Reich winged talking points... same as it EVER was.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. I was just told by a friend that Harris is less than 1% black

according to her "source". I told her I bet her source thought that Obama wasn't born in the US. I sent her a picture of Dr. Harris.

[SouthBayDem]

20. Yet they voted for the guy who cheated on his pregnant wife with a porn actress.

I'm not taking moral lectures from Mushroom supporters.

Besides, Harris was dating Willie Brown when Brown had been separated from his wife for over 10 years. There is NO evidence Harris has been a "homewrecker" in others' relationships.

[Wounded Bear]

22. IOKIYAR - it's OK if you're a republican...

[JustAnotherGen]

23. Don't engage with them online folks

Especially with the women on the right who say these things.

Look at a picture or two on their profile . . .you will quickly see where they are in life and the loser they got stuck with - and it will be apparent.

You see the same thing with the English prince that married an American.

[2naSalit]

24. And it's only the first day!

They're going to burst into flames if they keep that up.

[mopinko]

25. that's cuz it's all they've got.

they’re gonna have a helluva time finding ANYTHING that sticks.

[Bundbuster]

26. Every time these cretins open their foul mouths and minds

they put more votes in our column. They already had all the racist votes - now they are pushing Independents our way. They're just too stooopid to feel shooting themselves in the feet.

[Joinfortmill]

27. This ugliness will only serve to help her.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Sounds like they are underestimating Kamala.

A mistake on their part.

I am not sure anyone is going to buy the Jezebel storyline.

[Midnight Writer]

30. Like any cult, the GOP is pushing out anyone not in lockstep with their leader.

And their leader is a racist, a bigot, an abusive misogynist.

Fight darkness with light.

[LAS14]

31. What does DEI stand for?

Urban Dictionary was no help.

[Ocelot II]

33. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

It's an acronym that's been in use for awhile in corporate and academic circles for programs designed to hire/educate underrepresented populations.

[LAS14]

34. Ohhh!!! Right!!!! I knew that. How come urban dictionary didn't? nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

38. Because it is not urban slang. It is corporate terminology. . . . nt

[ecstatic]

35. And yet they are terrified of her in a hearing room. gtfoh

[valleyrogue]

36. You haven't seen anything yet.

I am not giving any money to anybody in the Democratic Party until Kamala has been officially nominated. I don't trust the PTB as far as I can throw them.

It is going to get extremely ugly this campaign.

[Quiet Em]

37. It's who they are and what they are

and they don't even try to hide it anymore.

Deplorable was too kind of a word to describe them.

[Dem4life1234]

39. That's what they do

She just dusts it off her shoulders because they are rabid gutter dwellers.

They can call her whatever they like but nothing tops a rapist treasonous felon jackass.