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Ocelot II

(130,568 posts)
3. He's being an asshole, as usual; he knows how to pronounce it.
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 12:16 PM
Oct 2024

Mispronouncing someone's name is a petty way of disrespecting them.

Walleye

(44,862 posts)
4. They all know how to pronounce it, just like they all known the name of our party is the Democratic Party.
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 12:16 PM
Oct 2024

I just wish the TV news would call them on it. One of these reporters who loves the gotcha questions so much. Ask one of your Republican guests if they can pronounce her name or if they are capable of saying the Democratic Party. I think our TV news people need to study the British a little more. Making fun of someone’s name. It’s just pure childishness and apparently, it appeals to their young (male) fans. You know how it is when a teenage boy starts with his harangue. There’s no point in continuing the conversation.

FarPoint

(14,777 posts)
5. This is a MAGA intentional slurring of anything Democratic...
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 12:16 PM
Oct 2024

Just like Limbaugh coined their term " democrat party" as a negative slur... Tom Hartman spoke about this this week on his show.... We all need to correct them when it happens and call out the slur...

Aristus

(72,202 posts)
6. Oh, he does, stupid as he is.
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 12:18 PM
Oct 2024

It’s a way of trying to provoke her and get under her skin.

Kind of the way every republican since Newt Gingrich has called us the ‘Democrat Party’. They know the name of our party, minus the brain-dead rednecks who are simply thrown off by that last syllable.

It’s a childish effort to demean and diminish. A stratagem one adopts when one has nothing substantive to offer to anyone.

woodsprite

(12,582 posts)
8. He mispronounces it as a sign of disrespect.
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 12:20 PM
Oct 2024

Same thing with using “Democrat” vs “Democratic”.

Moosepoop

(2,075 posts)
10. He knows, and he's just an asshole.
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 12:20 PM
Oct 2024

Quite often, he'll pause for a second before saying her name. I think he has to constantly mentally remind himself of how to pronounce it incorrectly, so as not to accidentally say it the correct way in public.

He's an asshole, but in a strange way he's now actually having to work at it a bit.

Gaytano70

(1,234 posts)
14. He knows how to say COMMA la, and I have heard him say it right.
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 12:27 PM
Oct 2024

He's a racist pos, just like everyone else who purposely says it wrong. Saying it wrong disrespects, denigrates, and others her

malaise

(296,197 posts)
15. Don't you know that white racists believe they can call non-whites
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 12:29 PM
Oct 2024

anything they want

Docreed2003

(18,714 posts)
16. He's an asshole...pure and simple
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 01:28 PM
Oct 2024

He intentionally mispronounces her name to not-so subtly denigrate her

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