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Opinion: Calling Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire’ is what bigotry looks like (www.cnn.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/poc

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[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Calling elected officials "DEI hires" is generally pretty stupid when they're directly elected . This is the one case where it's sort of true - the demographic of the VP matters since you're generally trying to court voters that the President is weak with. The thing that makes these comments racist is that they only noticed once the VP was non-white. This is literally no different than a presidential candidate from the north-east putting a VP candidate from the south on the ticket to court southern voters, something that has happened dozens of times. The VP has been diversity hire since forever. Mike Pence , an evangelical nutjob, was literally on the ticket to strengthen Trump's appeal with other evangelicals. He is literally a DEI hire.

The people making these comments are just using it to express their racism and nothing more.