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Why is Kamala Harris disliked so much as VP? (www.axios.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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She has some criticisms for her past as an attorney, but I’m not sure why she’s so disliked now. What has she done to engender such distaste from the public?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, her being a cop is self-evident, but let's review the entire comment:

She's a racist, classist noeliberal and a fucking cop (or close enough).

Her political career has been chock-full of attacking public institutions like schools, protecting white-collar crime which destroyed countless lives, protecting child molesters in the church, implementing policy against the poor, and protecting prison slavery. I'm not sure where exactly the confusion lies.

I would argue that, frankly, her being a neoliberal should be explained, for the sake of discussion, but her being racist and classist should be. The details of her career being "chock-full" of various acts should be coupled with specific citations to reporting of those acts. And so on.

I don't like Harris, mind, but the comment being discussed could have established its evidence in a more convincing manner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is Amy Goodman enough for you?

https://truthout.org/video/kamala-harris-says-she-was-a-progressive-prosecutor-her-record-says-otherwise/