And Harris is an Indian American. She offhand refers to her as a DEI hire, even though she was a top prosecutor, the former AG of California (the most powerful state in the union) and the VP.
One can't be be smart, a good person and a fascist at the same time.
If you are a good person and a fascist you are not smart.
if you are smart and a fascist you are not a good person,
If you are smart and a good person you are not a fascist.
I'm pretty sure this lady is neither smart nor a good person if she truly thinks that the racist, fascist, legacy billionaire (?) was the meritocratic, competent choice.
How much of it is a meritocracy when many South Asians are here on H1B visas, get paid less than their white counterparts, and can have their visa yanked and be sent back to Asia? They don’t get that they got the job because they are paid less and don’t need to be promised pay raises or long term benefits.
I’ve worked for more than 30 years with hundreds of engineers, many of them PhDs . Some of the smartest motherfuckers I know are also some of the dumbest motherfuckers I know.
Ikr? Competence and even brilliance in one area is no guarantee of overall good sense. I once worked in a company where there was a programmer so talented that the boss paid him more than he paid himself. But this guy couldn’t figure out the copier.
I worked as a graphic designer at a business school. One of the worst professors to deal with was the head of the marketing department. She had a PhD but never actually worked in marketing. She only did research. So she had no idea how to work with a designer, knew nothing about print production, and had terrible branding. And yet she was an "expert."
I’ve worked with so many surgeons who couldn’t work out a simple fax machine/printer. One ran a letter through my machine when it was still wet with white-out. Empty-headed mfer.
Some people have "book smarts" and that's it. Knowing how to ace a test and be a productive worker for your employer. Not necessarily being smart or intelligent. Not wise, for sure. Kind of fitting that she keeps mentioning meritocracy.
They have the uncanny ability to watch a person in a specific situation have a predictable outcome, and then see that they themselves will be in the same situation but somehow decide the outcome will be different (better) for them, just because they want it to be.
“Everyone else who touched the stove got burned, but if I touch the stove I’m sure I’ll be fine…”
I always have this in the back of my mind. I’m a half brown, first gen Latina with a very Latino last name. I have an Ivy degree, and many, many people smirk when they hear of it. I tell them straight away, I checked ALL the boxes. Female, Brown, good grades. I’ve known I was the diversity hire, when I was the ONLY POC on staff. Then they ask me what I am, and I say half Colombian, they ask if my father is a drug dealer. I answer affirmative, and that usually shuts them up. No brownie points for THAT.
I worked with a black boss one time. (Honestly there aren’t that many black executives). The guy was brilliant, he absolutely was 10x better than anyone else. Basically you have to be that much better as a person of color leader in America. The whole DEI hire notion is just so absurd.
Which is dumb, especially considering her name. I remember hearing her name for the first time and wondering why a black woman had an obviously Indian name. Found out about her heritage - to her credit, she did try to get Indian Americans to support her, but wouldn't be surprised if the numbers showed low support.
Exactly! And they are even whiter than other castes, right? They see themselves as Oh So White and privileged that they forget they're still not white enough for the WASPs.
Sure. It's a situation that would be somewhat funny in a rom-com if it wasn't my real life.
My husband's parents were deeply upset that he was dating a Black lady as opposed to a nice Indian American girl from somewhere on the east coast of the US.
They was so upset that they confronted him when he started dating me.
Their feelings continued when they refuse to meet me for nearly 2 years into our relationship.
After many years of fights and tears, my husband decided to propose to me. My in-laws confronted him again with help of a family friend.
When we decide to move in together while planning the wedding, my husband had to essentially run away from home. He was partially disowned.
The wedding sabotage begins.
They deliberately delayed getting an auspicious date for the wedding, which made booking a venue very difficult.
My mother-in-law stole my wedding sari and only gave it back a month before the wedding.
They threatened to wear white to the wedding, a color of mourning.
They insisted on another reception where an uncle followed me around trying to touch me an entire evening without any help from my in-laws. My husband was very helpful but the uncle leveraged being from the community and used other attendees to keep trying to touch me, ultimately it was a miserable time.
After being married, various attempts to treat me like a servant and attempts at disrespect.
When we had kids, disparagement of Black people and wanting to straighten my kids hair.
Whee. If my spouse wasn't amazing, I would not be as calm about this.
Wow, dear fellow Redditor. I can't believe that in this day and age there are people so unreasonably and consistently bigoted. I'm sorry you had to go through so much.
And yes, that makes your husband all the more of a great husband. I wish your family so many years of happiness! Many blessings from my belief; I am sure they will apply regardless of the recipient's faith.
Thank you so much for sharing your story! I can feel it was painful. But I'm also confident that this hard path will be eventually made up to you. Many hugs!
95% of the people using the term "DEI hire" have no fucking clue what it even is or how it works. The same as people who used the term "Affirmative Action hire". DEI and AA don't give you a high GPA or put you in elected office that requires a popular election.
The irony is that the main beneficiary of both AA and DEI is white women since white women are the largest minority in the US/Western world. The destruction of those programs will negatively improve white women the most.
To some maga Indian voters Harris is considered black because she isn’t full blooded Indian. To some maga african American voters she isn’t black because she is half Indian. It’s why trumps is she or isn’t she was attempted (but largely failed because it has no broad appeal).
She was actually a DEI hire though. Biden promised to hire a black female VP. If Kamala Harris was white, Biden would've picked someone else.
And the main reason she was picked to run for office after Biden dropped out was so they could continue using the campaign money Biden raised.
And if Joe Biden were black, Obama wouldn't have picked him to appeal to white moderates. It turns out that most politicians get elected based on the demographics they appeal to.
And also only Democrats do this sort of thing. Republicans just select the best candidates. Trump didn't select Vance because of his race, and in 2028, when Vance or Ramaswamy wins the primary, it will be because of their policies and intellect and not because of their race.
Uh... bruh, do you not remember Sarah Palin? Hell, even Pence was chosen to appeal to evangelical Christians who were initially put off by Trump. Neither of them were the "best candidate." They were chosen to shore up a demographic that the lead candidate wasn't reaching - literally diversity hires. Even back in the old days when everybody was a 50-something-year-old white dude, vice presidential candidates were usually chosen to appeal to a different demographic or a different part of the country than the presidential candidate. For instance, Nixon chose Agnew (despite his mediocre experience of being a county executive and governor for two years) because it was thought that he would appeal to southerners.
Trump has fully solidified Republican support so he doesn't have to bother with any of that. Instead, Peter Thiel chose someone he thought had enough star power to be a potential Trump successor. If Vance hadn't written a book/movie, he never would have been on the ticket.
I'm not sure how you do political analysis but I can tell you the result is... poor. They went with Kamala because they ignored the red flags about Biden's health due to the incumbent advantage. When that disappeared last minute there was no time do a proper primary so you had to go with "Most Name Recognition Dem" which was the VP.
Not sure why you feel compelled to repeat the same nonsense over and over again despite being proven wrong before even saying it the first time, but you do you my little mouthbreathing boo.
It’s also important to note that less visible =/= “less qualified”. That’s a very misguided and bigoted understanding of the purpose of DEI. I’m not sure why that’s so hard to understand.
It's not racist and misogynistic to say that Biden only hired her because she was black when Biden explicitly said that he would only consider black women when deciding who to hire, and therefore he wouldn't have hired her if she was white.
Democrats are the real racists for trying to pander to minorities by putting them in positions of power, as if they're homogenous groups who all want the same stuff.
As a white person, I would prefer Vivek Ramaswamy for President rather than Bernie Sanders because I prefer Ramaswamy's policies. And yet Democrats think other races don't vote based on policies but rather the race of the candidates.
Like I said, you really don't get why what you said was racist.
Also, yeah, the Democrats pander to minorities but so did Trump. He pondered out one side of his mouth to minorities and out the other to his racist base. Then again, the Democrats, as shitty as they are, have to appeal to a broad range of demographic groups with distinct and unique challenges. It's a distinguished pandering as opposed to Trump's vulgar othering of anyone who doesn't fit the proper profile.
How does that differ from wanting a white dude from the mid-west to “round out the ticket” and appeal to voters? You go with the running mate that you think will get you the most votes.
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u/Loggerdon 2d ago edited 2d ago
And Harris is an Indian American. She offhand refers to her as a DEI hire, even though she was a top prosecutor, the former AG of California (the most powerful state in the union) and the VP.
Edit: And a US Senator