I am not ready for four years of hearing about how the president of the United States is oppressed. But that's exactly what we're in for if Kamala Harris wins the White House. She was the DEI pick for VP, if she wins, she'll be the DEI installed president, and one thing we know for sure is that any criticism leveled at Kamala, her policies, her campaign or her potential administration will be called racist and sexist. The idea of this latest round of rhetoric is to prevent people who disagree with the left from being able to question the left's practices by saying that the questioning itself, the use of the terms they use, in negative ways, is racist.
It's already happening. We're already seeing it. Morning Joe has claimed that mispronouncing Kamala's name is racist. Dem Rep. Maxwell Frost said calling Kamala a DEI hire is akin to calling her the n-word. "These are racist dog whistles," he said, "whenever you hear DEI I want you to think about the n-word. I want you to think about racial slurs, that's what they mean." He said it's racist whether "people know it's racist or not." Yeah, they're back with that again.
Yet Joe Biden even said he brought Kamala aboard because of her race, and he's super proud of it, too. He said it before he brought her on, he said it throughout his presidency, and he said it in May. "To me, the values of diversity, equality, inclusion are literally — and this is not kidding — the core strengths of America," Biden said in remarks. "That’s why I’m proud to have the most diverse administration in history that taps into the full talents of our country. And it starts at the top with the Vice President."
Former White House advisor Susan Rice said it was "incredibly insulting" to say that Kamala's race and gender were at the top of the reasons for her being named VP. "That's extremely offensive and dehumanizing," she said. Rice said that when DEI is used as a qualifier, "what they’re saying with this DEI thing is that if you’re somebody who is not a white Christian man, then you didn’t get where you got because you deserved it." Biden can say it, but you can't. Just remember that.
It's okay to mention someone's race and sex when you think that makes them qualified, but it's not okay to mention it when you don't think that plays a role in their qualifications for a position. If you are on board with Kamala, sing the praises to her race and sex all day, but if you don't like her, it's racist to mention those things at all.
Joe Biden liked DEI so much that, when he was running for president back in 2020, he promised voters that he would select a black woman to be his running mate and that if elected, he would appoint a black woman as a Supreme Court Justice. He went so far as to pen an executive order demanding racial equity in hiring at all federal agencies. He and his Dems have made sweeping pronouncements about how important it is that the employees at federal agencies "look like" America, even if ideologically they are all cut from the same cloth.
Biden made good on both of those promises, first in bringing then-Senator Kamala Harris, who is black and Indian American, as his running mate, and then by appointing Ketanji Brown Jackson as Supreme Court Justice. He was super proud of these accomplishments and indeed, Democrats have been praising these choices since he made them. That praise has been primarily over these women's status as black and female. But when anyone else mentions that Harris was a "diversity hire," or that race and sex had any role to play in her being selected as VP, Democrats get all pissy about it.
Dems are going all in on their latest candidate for president in 2024, praising her inherent identity factors like her race and sex, claiming that she was brought up through grassroots support despite her having received absolutely zero votes. She wasn't, and we all know that. But the Dems are going to lean into the tried and true tactic of calling anyone who criticizes Kamala racist and or sexist. Don't fall for it.
Diversity, equity and inclusion has been pushed on the American people in the workplace, in schools, in academia, by Hollywood, by progressive pundits, and of course by Democrats. They've told us that race and gender are perfectly reasonable metrics to use in hiring, or admissions, or anything else. The party that tells us DEI is great now tells us that pointing out that someone benefited from DEI is racist. How can it be racist to say someone was a DEI hire if DEI is the best thing ever? It's because they know DEI is not based on merit, it's just racist.
