Shadowy Man
Contributor
Of course not.This board does not speak with a single voice.
They are not the same people, and I am not setting up a strawman because I have been pretty explicit that I am not conflating the two.I am not convinced that it necessarily the same folks who are using nicknames against republicans who are calling out the racist, sexist attacks against Harris. You’re setting up a strawman.
I believe you are conflating the two when you call it a “double standard”. It must mean something different to you I guess because I don’t use that term when two different groups use two different standards. To me, it means when the same group uses two different standards; I.e., a form of hypocrisy.
My point was that those like Toni who call out any mocking of Democrats (and call it "racist" and/or "sexist" if it involves somebody non-white or female) are not reacting in a similar way to mocking of Republicans.
I haven’t followed Toni’s posts closely enough to specifically comment on that.
That’s not necessarily true. For example, men don’t “sleep their way to the top”, so using a pejorative like “heels up Harris” to imply she would not have achieved her success without sleeping with a man is actually sexist. Calling her “dopey” is not, despite being lame.And again, just because Kamala Harris is the target of ridicule does not make it "racist" or "sexist". If similar stuff were written about a white male politician, nobody would bat an eye.