Posted on 08/05/2018 2:25:15 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris blasted critics of "identity politics," saying that those who use the phrase are attempting to "marginalize issues that impact all of us." Speaking Friday at the Netroots Nation event in New Orleans, Harris implored her supporters to instead fully address the issues of race and gender.
"Let’s be clear," Harris told the crowd. "When people say [identity politics], it’s a pejorative. That phrase is used to divide, and it is used to distract. Its purpose is to minimize and marginalize issues that impact all of us. It is used to try and shut us up.”
She further galvanized the audience, saying that Democrats won't be silenced about immigrant rights and women's reproductive rights.
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Most of the time, they're telling us not to "be judgmental." Then they start acting like they're the arbiters of all that's right, just and holy.
Honestly, they're all poster children for the Dunning-Kruger effect, and for what happens when no one pushes back against your raging narcissism.
I’m an American/American, not a Indian/Jamaican/American like her.
Darned right it’s a pejorative. The purpose of identity politics is to divide people and make them feel like victims thus making them easily exploitable by the Democrat Party.
#walkaway
So practicing ID politics isn't used to divide, but calling out that practice for what it is ..is.
“That phrase is used to divide, and it is used to distract.”
Just more libs trying to control the language, vocabulary, and thoughts in the debate. Petty tyrants.
This evil woman is even worse than Hussein and should always be regarded as an enemy of all Americans; not just right wing Americans. There’s absolutely nothing good about her. Nothing.
You can see it in her eyes and the way she slides around the truth.
And yet it is apparently not pejorative when Trump supporters are described by Democrats and celebrities and the media as deplorable and racists and nazis. That’s okay /s
Nutroots
How dare they try to intervene when we are dividing by race, since she is in new Orleans will she follow rat criminal mayor nagan in declaring new Orleans a chocolate new Orleans? Crap has another name
She and her money men have certainly studied Obama, whose method was to knock over all the hurdles in his own lane before the gun then sprint to the finish and claim a hard fought victory.
By daring observers and opponents to accurately describe andmoppose her shopworn political strategy, she hopes to silence them. But even if there is silence she is selling 2008’s ideas (such as they are) 10 years too late.
She is an appalling intellectual lightweight.
andmoppose -> and oppose
“Honestly, they’re all poster children for the Dunning-Kruger effect”
+1
I have used that very same analogy when referring to the behavior of the progressive left.
No, that phrase is used to describe; it's the practice that is used to divide.
Those people are very retarded.
Is harris even an american?
Were her parents US citizens when she was born?
If not her allegiance is to her fathers country
Illegal aliens have the right to be deported. Unborn babies have the right not to be slaughtered.
That's silly. She's an adult; her allegiance is decided by her, not by the accidents of her birth.
From her actions, it's clear that her allegiance is to international communist revolution.
You're damned right 'identity politics' is a pejorative, as it should be, for a collection of scams on the USA designed to establish and maintain a victim status for folks who do not deserve victim status. And all the ______ studies programs in colleges are a major part of the scams.
And, of course, the ancestors of those seeking victim status were from failed cultures and failed nations and their descendants in the USA are among the most fortunate people on earth to have escaped the failed cultures of their ancestors. They do not deserve any sort of victim status and should stop complaining and work to take advantage of the opportunities available to them in the USA.
Q. So why do the migrants willingly hyphenate their ethnicities?
A. To set themselves apart from Americans.
Airheaded Kamala needs to look that up......that means the hyphenates themselves are dividing us.
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the inability of low-ability people to recognize their lack of ability; without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.
I had to look it up.
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