I'm tired. Maybe the fact that Canada is burning and in the air again has to do with this, or maybe it is the eternal wishful stupidity of the right. Could be either or.
Unfortunately this means I have a fever, which lately happens when I'm having an auto-immune outbreak.
For those of you who are new here, when I get a fever it's like when other people are on prednisone. I lose what little governor I have. Also, because my head hurts, I become very short on patience.
What does this mean? Well-- The old hands will tell you.
It means I roll up my sleeves, turn the Heinlein picture to the wall and speak without prettifying it for the sensitive souls. I'm sorry. But in case I haven't mentioned it, I'm tired.
On facebook, someone took offense at my "Getting it out of the way" post. First at my saying that Kamala probably has less recent African ancestry than I do -- and mine isn't that recent. It's someone who comments here, but he primly informed me that a little research would have prevented my embarrassing faux pas, since her father is of Jamaican ancestry so, obviously she has recent African ancestry.
Head>desk, repeat with gusto. He then insisted the "cast of her father's features" meant he was black. I know that what y'all are conditioned to think of as "black" reads as "What?" to me, but seriously, the man looks Mediterranean with some English and I checked with people born here. Also, I'm not going to post my own family photos, but the side that so far as we know (unless that's the tiny amount of Nigerian in my 23 and me. Yes, that's right. I'm a princess!) has no African blood looks more African than Kamala's father. Because, well... Portugal is a very mixed place, but also because what American's consider "black" is not.
But even so, my contention in making that statement was not to dispute one-drop rules, because frankly who cares, but to argue that Kamala is no more black than I am: She's not black American by culture or ancestry. Meaning that as far as there is a common (and there is) experience among Americans of (some) African ancestry whose ancestors were brought here as slaves, she ain't got it. She got made "black" because Joe wanted a "black woman" vice president and it was her or the "real governor of Georgia." That was it. Which is disingenuous.
For some reason this gentleman decided what I was REALLY saying was that Kamala and her family didn't experience discrimination. (Pfui.) He then went on to lecture me about how if we say she isn't black we're making it so that black people rally around her. (This takes a level of double reverse leap and mental gymnastics that, given the fact I don't have brakes right now, meant I was better off absenting myself from the discussion.)
Look, she isn't black. Black people know she isn't black. They were willing to fall for Barrack Obama who at least looks like an American black, but if you think they weren't bit by that and aren't wary of him, you'd be silly.
Now, am I saying she didn't suffer discrimination?
Wait a moment. If I bang my head on the desk some more, with force, maybe it will stop hurting so badly at the arrant stupidity of this idea.
Yeah, she suffered discrimination. I have very bad news for you who are a little older than I: The conditions the democrats and their race obsession have set up in America, largely by poisoning kids' minds in elementary schools, there is NO ONE that has lived in the US for the last 50 years who HASN'T experienced discrimination based on the way they look, or some perceived racial group. (Other reasons too.) Significant, marked discrimination that often affects their financial or physical well being. White men have suffered significant continual discrimination. So has everyone else. And it's been much, much worse in the last 30 years. Largely because the left has succeeded in its endeavor of having everyone's hands against everyone else.
Sure, people who tan have been discriminated against. I happen to know a highly educated Indian (dot) young man whose white wife had nasty things said to her in a diner while he was in the restroom, because she was a you know what "lover". I also know that mixed race families can be extremely sensitive on that stuff, sometimes unwarrantedly. A couple of our friends, way back when used to get upset at people "staring at our kids". The truth is both their kids were stunningly beautiful. So, yeah, people stared. Now, some might have been racist, but I suspect most were like me, awestruck at the kids' beauty. Still, yeah, there are still racists out there, though most of it isn't the "white supremacy" of the left's obsession but "He/she ain't one of us." And all of us, everyone alive right now, has been a victim of it.
It might be that a realtor didn't take you seriously, because you were "Mexican" and "poor" -- waves hand in the air, though honestly most of it was, PROBABLY that we went to see the house dressed like college students. It was Saturday, we had a small child. We were tired -- or it might be you were passed up for promotion because you're a male of pallor (there's a vast group of these, and frankly their wives are salty too.) Or it could be the teacher who treated your kid as mentally slow because he was "mixed race" even though being Portuguese you weren't aware you were of a different race than your Scotts/Irish/German/Amerindian husband. Or-- Never mind.
Yes, it has affected me, hence the examples, but heck, I've had friends discriminated against for being Mormon, which as we all know is a legion of pale.
And part of this is that people are trying to read "a certain cast" of features which can be interpreted various ways. I can post pictures here of my mom that will have you certain she's Philippine. That I know of we have absolutely NO Asian blood other than some Indian (dot.) But between hairstyle, makeup and the peculiar artifacts of photos in the 40s, you'd swear to it.
And the problem is Americans read these tea leaves all the time, and do things like "see" some race or subrace in someone. Because they've become conditioned to do so. And then they make assumptions -- I want you to admire what it would take to look at me and see "Mexican" because it really is astonishing. But then imagine the triple leap of the people who decided DAN was also Mexican, because.... I don't know. He has black hair? And the truly gifted people who out of nowhere decided we were BOTH Russian and spoke Russian at home (this was after years of trying to put our kids in bilingual, Spanish education, but new principal. And this is what she attributed younger son's deafness-driven speech issues) -- and treat people a certain way. Those people get very upset and treat other people in retaliation. My younger DIL who is one of the whitest women I know has been screamed at and attacked for being "white" which is racism, exactly like attacking someone for being black.
Racism is not skin color plus power or lack thereof, for one because power is not a Marxist thing where groups have power and others don't. A young white woman who works entry level employment for a living has far less power than a black woman with an ivy league education. To pretend otherwise requires the invention of phantoms like "Structural racism" which is invisible and undefinable bur pervades everything, supposedly, and that leads you down the rabbit hole where you start claiming holocaust survivors have "privilege." The backlash from that kind of stupidity is going to be epic and leave scorched cities in its wake. And it's already started.
Which brings us to the next part of this. Apparently we're not supposed to make fun of Kamala, or refer to the fact her greatest accomplishment and so far as we can tell the only thing she was competent at was servicing a powerful man in exchange for advancement. And we're not supposed to make fun of her cackle. And we're not supposed to point out her stunningly bizarre lack of competence. (She's not really any more competent than her zombie boss.)
Why not? Because you don't hit a girl. Particularly you don't hit a female "of color."
This is the part I roll up sleeves.
Oh, you sweet summer child.
Apparently attacking a woman will backfire "with the American people." As Sarah Palin can attest right? The woman who was dragged up one side the street and down the other, and called everything but a child of G-d for the offense of running for VP as GOP and being one of best governors Alaska has had? Yeah, granted, she wasn't a "woman of color" being about one jot lighter than Kamala.
Are we for real now? I don't know where you people are coming from, but you must have grown up in 1940s movies, where offending "a lady" was a problem.
Nowadays women will be offended if you call them ladies. No, I don't get it either, but it's what it is, right?
Nowadays 90 lbs women will challenge 200 lbs guys for a fist fight, because they've seen it in movies and it must be real. It speaks to the essential goodness of American males that fewer of them are killed than you'd expect. Nowadays there's not a single man OF ANY COLOR alive who hasn't been screamed at by a woman in a rage for the crime of... being nice to her? There isn't a man alive who hasn't seen a woman promoted over him because "has vagina." There isn't a man alive who hasn't been told he's a horrible person for having a penis. (This last includes boys.) There isn't a man alive who hasn't been accused of something imaginary by a woman and had a hell of a time extricating himself. And if there is one or two, maybe, he probably has close friends or relatives who have suffered through this.
The chivalry and "you don't hit a girl" and "let the woman have her turn" of the American people have been stretched to the breaking point.
Now, do all women behave badly? No we don't. Do all women get undeserved promotions/grades/benefits? No, we don't. Just like not all minorities advanced are undeserving.
And frankly, the Didn't Earn It advancement of the undeserving pisses off women and minorities who actually work for it and earned it MORE than it does the white people bypassed in favor of the incompetents. Because our hard earned success gets ascribed to the same kind of preference. And NOTHING, nothing burns more than that.
There is a meme going around about how you shouldn't say Kamala advanced on her knees, because would you want your sisters/daughters/wives to hear that.
My response to that is, yes, when I say TRUE THINGS about how a woman in power got that power, I WANT my child to hear it. I want her to hear that sleeping with a man for power is NOT the way to achieve it, that it makes people question your competence. I want them to see strong, powerful women who achieved power on their own merit.
I mean, I may disagree with political positions held by Nikki Haley and Tulsi Gabbard (two OTHER Indian-American women), but neither of them can credibly be accused of selling themselves for power. At least not sexually.
Kamala Harris is a horror. The horror starts with her having slept her way into power she was quite incompetent to hold. It goes on through her being a convinced Marxist which at this point after all the discomfirmation of the philosophy is the refuge of the idiots who rely on discrimination to advance.
And it continues to an utter and complete lack of empathy or even understanding others are human beings. Her "I was that girl" at Joe in the primary debates -- whatever you think of Joe -- was her slipping a shiv in the back of a man who had materially helped her. His look was one most men will recognize. Go and look at that debate. There are recordings, I'm sure. In my opinion that was responsible for how badly she did in the primaries. Wounded men recognized the behavior. They'd suffered it before. So do the women who love them and saw them be treated that way by women they helped before.
And while on that, her complete lack of empathy is expressed in her support for Hamas and hatred of Jews AFTER THE EVENTS OF 10/7. Oh, and her help to release BLM burners and looters to burn and loot some more. All of which is her using humans as chess pieces, not really humans.
If you can look at that creature, and NOT hit her with everything you have, including that she's pretending to be something -- American black, descended from slaves -- which she's not, that she's a woman who advanced in the oldest and most corrupt way possible, that her very utterances show either lack of brain or heavy drug use, and that she's to all accounts an ideological monster and a horrible human being, that doesn't make you "good", it makes you willing to trade the future of the nation for your own self image as superior and standing above it all.
More importantly, if you're clinging to "Gentlemen don't hit girls, because if they do everyone will turn against them and defend the girl", you're a patsy. You are specifically a patsy of the leftists, and believe what they want you to believe.
They certainly hit women on our side with everything for the slightest step our of line. If you have time, I'll show you the scars, some day. Or maybe they're displayed well enough on this post. Also, I recommend you ask Sarah Palin about it. They destroyed her on every level.
More importantly, we DO know the culture has turned, even if the left refuses to believe it. I call to witness EVERY movie with girlbosses or even super-tan girlbosses, and their failure at the box office.
Yes, in most cases it is because those movies are horrible. But in a couple of cases, because younger son told me the movie was actually "okay" -- not wonderful, but okay -- and had been lumped in with the horrible ones because of the girlbosses, I watched them. And he was right. The movies were okay. But people couldn't take another girlboss, another reboot with "girlboss of color".
The left still thinks casting that way is infallible, because no one would dare hit the movies. They'll get called racist! Sexist! (Which probably explains their choosing Kamala.)
They don't get those words have lost all power. I do.
Since if I have grandkids they're likely to tan (notwithstanding the pallor of one DIL. The other tans darker than my son despite being blond.) and since I have friends with beautiful, bright young daughters who are far darker and more "black" than Kamala, since I am a woman even if an atypical one, I beg you to stop your ridiculous chivalry to people like Kamala.
She doesn't deserve any forbearance or respect accorded to her for characteristics of birth. And the more you give to people like her, the more you setup the rest of us for the backlash.
If you insist on behaving like patsies and let that creature be "elected" (mostly fraud, but if you shut up you let it sound plausible) you'll probably be setting up such a backlash to the horrors she'll put us through that you'll set the condition of women and people who tan back to the EARLY twentieth century.
Do you want that on your conscience? I hope you do, because if you allow that to happen most of us will never, ever forgive you.
Now lecture me once more about being nice. Tell me again that I must fight with my legs in a sack. Tell me I can't call her Kamala when most of us called George W. Bush Dubya. Tell me I can't say chick who looks like light skinned Indian (dot) isn't black. Tell me I can't refer to her as being a slept-into-power woman when I said the same about Hilary.
Go ahead. Lecture me. It will be amusing. I have a fever and time to burn.
And I'm fighting for the future of women, particularly those who tan. And for that matter the future of men, particularly those who tan.
And frankly, your delicate, lilac scented feelings aren't even in the picture as far as my concerns.
So, do go ahead. Make my day.
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