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→ Kamala Harris tests out new accent
Kamala Harris, perhaps in response to Trump’s suggestion that she’s not actually black, has been testing out a new accent.
KAMALA HARRIS (with the accent):
“Hard work is good work…! We have fun doin’ hard work!” pic.twitter.com/mo5L18QgY0
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 8, 2024
“We have fun doin’ hard work,” she told a crowd this week in a new southern accent. Last week she broke into a similar accent for a crowd in Atlanta, telling the audience, “You all helped us in 2020 and we gon’ do it again in 2024,” using a soft “r” in the final word. And in a June ad filmed for the Black Entertainment Television Awards, she said “Girl, I’m out here in these streets,” and, when describing conservatives, said, “They not like us.”
It’s only natural to revert to one’s childhood accent when in familiar company. But Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, grew up in a predominantly white community in Southern California. If Hillary Clinton could do it, Harris can too.
→ Britain’s Big Brother Summer
The government-driven censorship machine is whirring into action. Earlier today, the Crown Prosecution Service warned that posting content which “incites violence or hatred” online will be punished. A flashing video warns X users to “think before you post”. It also says posters can be prosecuted for sharing such content, not even creating it.
Think before you post! ✋ Content that incites violence or hatred isn’t just harmful – it can be illegal.
The CPS takes online violence seriously and will prosecute when the legal test is met. Remind those close to you to share responsibly or face the consequences. pic.twitter.com/5gxnUH02yw
— Crown Prosecution Service (@CPSUK) August 7, 2024
One rather funny comment read: “I was gonna try to ratio you but decided not to because it might be illegal and I don’t wanna get in trouble”. At least this country has its priorities in order.
→ Iran’s new antisemitic Olympics ad
Iran debuted an ad this week depicting an Israeli Olympic athlete with literal blood on his hands. Friendly athletes from other nations take turns shaking the Israeli’s hand and, in doing so, get blood on their own hands, before joining forces against him in an ominous locker-room confrontation in which they take turns wiping blood on the lone Israeli.
Iran drops a powerful ad depicting an Israeli Olympian with blood on his hands. pic.twitter.com/ijUAnJtM2t
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) August 9, 2024
In case the message was too subtle, the Israeli athlete has an enormous tattoo of a menorah on his neck. Back in Paris, Israeli athletes do indeed worry about confrontations, and are followed around by armed security. Various international venues have previously removed Israelis from competition over security concerns, and in the 1972 Olympics, 11 Israelis were killed by terrorists. Read the room.
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SubscribeNever mind the fake accent the content of the VP’s speech is vapid and accompanied by sycophantic enthusiasm from the onlookers.
It will be interesting to see what punishment is visited on the the Labour councillor (who has been disavowed by Labour) for suggesting the rioters should have their throats slit and be got rid of.
The Labour PR department clearly saw it was unacceptable but the enthusiasm for what he said evinced by those about him showed that he was not a single bad apple and it seems unlikely that those vocally though less articulately endorsing his suggestion will face any punishment. Are they not like those clicking the like button?
Advocating violence of course is, or should be, in a different class to expressing hatred. If you punish the latter you get the absurd position that has occurred in Germany of a woman expressing hatred of a convicted but unpunished rapist who received a prison sentence while the rapist did not. I have no objection to anyone expressing hatred for me as long as they don’t initiate any action against me.
Leftists testing out new accents…clown freak show levels of bizarre.
She is so cringe. I saw a meme about “Oh, Republicans say she never gave birth, why is that relevant, duh?” The ultimate straw man argument
It is indeed hilarious to hear Kamala Harris switch back and forth between her normal speech and the faux southern accent. She seems to be doing it more and more, out of her conscious control.
But fact check: Kamala Harris grew up in northern California (and Canada), not southern California. And for many of those years, she lived in Oakland, California in a mostly minority community, though she was bused to a mostly white school in a desegregation program.
She lived in Berkeley, because her parents were professors there. She was bussed to the Berkeley Flats as part of a voluntary program. The Flats were mainly black and poor, but their schools were excellent. Her parents wanted her to mix with kids who looked like her. (Back then Berkeley was lily white, and I’m pretty sure it still is.)
You got some of Kamala Harris’s background wrong but so did I. My main point was that she grew up in northern California, not southern California as the article says. NoCal, not SoCal, as some say here.
I might add that she spent as many of her growing-up years in Quebec as the Bay Area. Her parents separated in 1970 when she was six and divorced in 1972. When she was 12 she moved to Canada when her mother became a researcher at McGill, though she did visit the Bay Area where her father ended up as a Stanford professor.
I grew up in Berkeley. She grew up in the flats of Berkeley in a mixed neighborhood. The flats were working class at that time. Her parents were not professors, they were graduate students. Berkeley was never and is not now lily white, but the racial mix has changed as Bay Area real estate prices have skyrocketed and immigration has increased. There are fewer white and black people, and more Asians and Latinos.
White guilt fades into utter insignificance next to the guilt of wealthy blacks. Imagine the sheer terror of it – the lingering question: ‘how did you get to be so privileged in a racist society?’. No wonder they are all so desperate to talk about anything except money.
Harris didn’t grow up in Southern California. She grew in Berkeley, which is Northern California, and Quebec, which is even farther north. Fact check. This is the third time I’ve had to correct geographical problems concerning the United States.
Berkeley is significantly closer to the Oregon border than it is to Mexico so, in that way, it’s northern CA. Population wise it is definitely northern CA.
However probably most accurate to say it is West-central California.
Berkeley is in the Bay Area, the largest urban area of coastal Northern California. When people say Central California, they mean the inland Central Valley, a largely agricultural area.
Harris’s lapse into the black “accent “ is hardly something new. Black politicians will do it when their audience is mainly black. Obama did. Oprah does it. It’s pretty normal. Senator John Kennedy uses a thick Southern accent when speaking publicly, especially to his constituents in Louisiana. In private he has no accent. He went to an Ivy League college and Oxford. And like my brother-in- law, his accent went away. Not really news.
‘How black is Kamala/’. That’s the most urgent question facing the world, isn’t it? No, it’s not. The real question is: ‘how significant is insignificance going to be after Nov 5th?’
It’s going to be interesting to see how racist some of Unherd’s authors are going to get in this US election season.
What the hell is Iran doing at the Olympics? Why is a terrorist state part of it?
So is China and N Korea