Andr-Tech uk666 Posted July 24, 2024 Andr-Tech #1 Posted July 24, 2024 Right-Wing Media Target Kamala Harris Racist, misogynist online disinformation is already being used against Kamala Harris’ campaign. They’re not trolling her just to troll her. There’s a broader effort at play that is connected to undermining women’s participation in democracy and women holding office. The right-wing media machine is throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Kamala Harris. As she held a rally Tuesday for the first time as the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Fox News, talk radio, and the constellation of digital news websites and online personalities were busy blitzing her with a wide array of attacks, aiming to quickly villainize. Over the last 48 hours: She has been smeared as a “DEI” (diversity, equity, and inclusion) candidate. - In most of corporate America, calling someone a “DEI” candidate would be grounds for stiff disciplinary action, if not outright dismissal. She has been denigrated as a “mistress” for her previous relationship with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, even though it occurred after Brown was separated from his wife and was not a secret. She has been ridiculed for her laugh and described as unlikeable. She has been characterized as having been too tough on crime as a prosecutor, but also pro-illegal immigration. she has had her candidacy labeled a “coup”; and she has been subjected to commentators mocking even the pronunciation of her name, among other things. Suffice to say, it has been a lot. If elected, Harris would not only be the first woman president, but she is the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants. Her heritage and status as a powerful woman on the cusp of winning the Oval Office has, quite plainly, spurred the attacks drenched in racist and sexist vitriol. “Suddenly she’s the next messiah?” Fox News host Jesse Watters said Tuesday night as he railed against Harris. “The only reason she is in the White House is because of Biden” The salvo is a page out of the right’s playbook targeting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, a bogeyman it has used to blame for everything from airline safety issues to the Baltimore bridge collapse. But attributing the success of Harris to her race and sex has become standard fare among Donald Trump’s media allies, who conveniently ignore her wealth of experience in both law and government. (It is somewhat ironic, given that J.D. Vance, Trump’s running mate, has a somewhat thin resume.) Remember the ugly treatment that Barack Obama received from right-wing media more than a decade ago as he campaigned for president and served in office. Most prominently, Obama was targeted with the false and reprehensible conspiracy theory suggesting he was an illegitimate president because he supposedly wasn’t born in America. That’s how right-wing media confronted Obama in 2008. But notably, it did not prove to be a successful strategy, Barack Obama went on to become the 44th President of the United States. Now, with the sudden and last-minute switcheroo by the Democratic Party, Trump and his media allies are left searching for the most effective narrative to present to the public to damage Harris’ chances at denying them the White House. Those efforts will, surely, increase as new polling emerges showing Harris could seriously threaten Trump’s odds of winning in November.
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