Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Zhi Zhu 🕸️  ·  4 months ago
"You are going to see your candidate subjected to the most blistering, vile & specious personal attacks based on her #race & #gender. The effort, to be sure, is aimed at villainizing her with those who are undecided. But it’s also intended to tear her down in your eyes; to distract & demoralize you; to dampen the high spirits that are driving you toward the one goal that is above all this presidential #election year — winning — which depends on #voting"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/26/kamala-harris-trump-racism-history/

#KamalaHarris

Text from article: Why reprise the spirit of John Sharp Williams, why echo the malice of today’s political right? We elders have heard it all before. Some of us have also been on the receiving end. It’s not about us. This is a heads-up to the energized and enthusiastic young voters who are being drawn to the Harris campaign in huge numbers. You are going to see your candidate subjected to the most blistering, vile and specious personal attacks based on her race and gender. The effort, to be sure, is aimed at villainizing her with those who are undecided. But it’s also intended to tear her down in your eyes; to distract and demoralize you; to dampen the high spirits that are driving you toward the one goal that is above all this presidential election year — winning — which depends on voting. Let nothing stop you from getting to the polls. Because Election Day 2024 will decide who will govern and uphold democratic values.
Text from article: Why reprise the spirit of John Sharp Williams, why echo the malice of today’s political right? We elders have heard it all before. Some of us have also been on the receiving end. It’s not about us. This is a heads-up to the energized and enthusiastic young voters who are being drawn to the Harris campaign in huge numbers. You are going to see your candidate subjected to the most blistering, vile and specious personal attacks based on her race and gender. The effort, to be sure, is aimed at villainizing her with those who are undecided. But it’s also intended to tear her down in your eyes; to distract and demoralize you; to dampen the high spirits that are driving you toward the one goal that is above all this presidential election year — winning — which depends on voting. Let nothing stop you from getting to the polls. Because Election Day 2024 will decide who will govern and uphold democratic values.
Text from article: Why reprise the spirit of John Sharp Williams, why echo the malice of today’s political right? We elders have heard it all before. Some of us have also been on the receiving end. It’s not about us. This is a heads-up to the energized and enthusiastic young voters who are being drawn to the Harris campaign in huge numbers. You are going to see your candidate subjected to the most blistering, vile and specious personal attacks based on her race and gender. The effort, to be sure, is aimed at villainizing her with those who are undecided. But it’s also intended to tear her down in your eyes; to distract and demoralize you; to dampen the high spirits that are driving you toward the one goal that is above all this presidential election year — winning — which depends on voting. Let nothing stop you from getting to the polls. Because Election Day 2024 will decide who will govern and uphold democratic values.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Zhi Zhu 🕸️  ·  4 months ago
"To call a #Black woman a “Jezebel” hearkens back to America’s #racist & #misogynistic #history of casting Black women as insatiably sexual, which served to justify slaveholding men’s systematic sexual #assault of enslaved #women. But for right-wing white #Christians... to say a woman has a “Jezebel spirit” is also to say she is a danger to them, a barely human being hell-bent on seducing men to their destruction"
https://newrepublic.com/article/184213/jezebel-attacks-kamala-harris-christian

#KamalaHarris#Harris#Politics#USPol#USA #News

News headline and photo with caption. Headline: The Violent Implications of the “Jezebel” Attacks on Kamala Harris Calling Black women “Jezebel” has a long, racist history. But as a recent video shows, it also has a more modern meaning among Christian nationalists. Photo: Harris stands smiling in profile at a podium with supporters in the background. Caption: Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at West Allis Central High School in Wisconsin, on July 23. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images
News headline and photo with caption. Headline: The Violent Implications of the “Jezebel” Attacks on Kamala Harris Calling Black women “Jezebel” has a long, racist history. But as a recent video shows, it also has a more modern meaning among Christian nationalists. Photo: Harris stands smiling in profile at a podium with supporters in the background. Caption: Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at West Allis Central High School in Wisconsin, on July 23. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images
News headline and photo with caption. Headline: The Violent Implications of the “Jezebel” Attacks on Kamala Harris Calling Black women “Jezebel” has a long, racist history. But as a recent video shows, it also has a more modern meaning among Christian nationalists. Photo: Harris stands smiling in profile at a podium with supporters in the background. Caption: Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at West Allis Central High School in Wisconsin, on July 23. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Zhi Zhu 🕸️  ·  4 months ago
"When Wallnau calls #Harris a Jezebel, then, viewers should understand that he is nodding toward his own #dreams and #prophecies, his claims to have foretold her coming. Such claims are the currency of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR, a #Christian #religious and #political movement “driven by theocratic notions of total societal dominion, including the end of #democracy as we’ve known it”"
https://newrepublic.com/article/184213/jezebel-attacks-kamala-harris-christian

#Religion#Politics#GOP #fascism#USA #News

Text from article: When Wallnau calls Harris a Jezebel, then, viewers should understand that he is nodding toward his own dreams and prophecies, his claims to have foretold her coming. Such claims are the currency of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR, a Christian religious and political movement “driven by theocratic notions of total societal dominion, including the end of democracy as we’ve known it,” as leading NAR experts Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné have described it. As within the wider Christian nationalism movement, NAR prophets encourage followers to “think of themselves as soldiers in a cosmic conflict,” as religion scholar and former Christian evangelical pastor Bradley Onishi has said. The stakes here are higher than mere elections; it’s about who prevails in an apocalyptic battle. “When you explain it that way to folks,” Onishi recently told NBC News, “you’re able to prime them, not only for action, but I think for extreme measures.”
Text from article: When Wallnau calls Harris a Jezebel, then, viewers should understand that he is nodding toward his own dreams and prophecies, his claims to have foretold her coming. Such claims are the currency of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR, a Christian religious and political movement “driven by theocratic notions of total societal dominion, including the end of democracy as we’ve known it,” as leading NAR experts Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné have described it. As within the wider Christian nationalism movement, NAR prophets encourage followers to “think of themselves as soldiers in a cosmic conflict,” as religion scholar and former Christian evangelical pastor Bradley Onishi has said. The stakes here are higher than mere elections; it’s about who prevails in an apocalyptic battle. “When you explain it that way to folks,” Onishi recently told NBC News, “you’re able to prime them, not only for action, but I think for extreme measures.”
Text from article: When Wallnau calls Harris a Jezebel, then, viewers should understand that he is nodding toward his own dreams and prophecies, his claims to have foretold her coming. Such claims are the currency of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR, a Christian religious and political movement “driven by theocratic notions of total societal dominion, including the end of democracy as we’ve known it,” as leading NAR experts Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné have described it. As within the wider Christian nationalism movement, NAR prophets encourage followers to “think of themselves as soldiers in a cosmic conflict,” as religion scholar and former Christian evangelical pastor Bradley Onishi has said. The stakes here are higher than mere elections; it’s about who prevails in an apocalyptic battle. “When you explain it that way to folks,” Onishi recently told NBC News, “you’re able to prime them, not only for action, but I think for extreme measures.”
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Zhi Zhu 🕸️  ·  4 months ago
See also this Mastodon #thread:

https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112849263505540941

which looks at how certain #news orgs are already blaming #KamalaHarris for the "DEI culture war" (code for racist/sexist/bigoted ) attacks that #Trump and the #GOP are throwing at her.

#Journalism#Press#Media#Politics#US#USPol#USPolitics#USA#Harris#Harris2024

Screen shot of a Mastodon post with the text: "Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on #Harris as #racism, pure & simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton... termed them “racial attacks” & situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity & affirmative action programs.” The #headline on that story was another passive #horror, putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with #DEI, culture war attacks”. - @froomkin Image: Text from article: The Washington Post, meanwhile, is blaming the culture wars. Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on Harris as racism, pure and simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton on Monday termed them “racial attacks” and situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity and affirmative action programs.” For Felton, the story is not that the right wing is responding to Harris with grotesque racism, it’s that “America’s fraught racial politics are set to, once again, take center stage.” The headline on that story was another passive horror, almost putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with DEI, culture war attacks”. #Journalism #Politics #Media
Screen shot of a Mastodon post with the text: "Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on #Harris as #racism, pure & simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton... termed them “racial attacks” & situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity & affirmative action programs.” The #headline on that story was another passive #horror, putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with #DEI, culture war attacks”. - @froomkin Image: Text from article: The Washington Post, meanwhile, is blaming the culture wars. Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on Harris as racism, pure and simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton on Monday termed them “racial attacks” and situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity and affirmative action programs.” For Felton, the story is not that the right wing is responding to Harris with grotesque racism, it’s that “America’s fraught racial politics are set to, once again, take center stage.” The headline on that story was another passive horror, almost putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with DEI, culture war attacks”. #Journalism #Politics #Media
Screen shot of a Mastodon post with the text: "Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on #Harris as #racism, pure & simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton... termed them “racial attacks” & situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity & affirmative action programs.” The #headline on that story was another passive #horror, putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with #DEI, culture war attacks”. - @froomkin Image: Text from article: The Washington Post, meanwhile, is blaming the culture wars. Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on Harris as racism, pure and simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton on Monday termed them “racial attacks” and situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity and affirmative action programs.” For Felton, the story is not that the right wing is responding to Harris with grotesque racism, it’s that “America’s fraught racial politics are set to, once again, take center stage.” The headline on that story was another passive horror, almost putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with DEI, culture war attacks”. #Journalism #Politics #Media