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• SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s worse than that - it’s like how he and his cronies choose not to call her “Harris” like everyone else calls him “Trump” or the president “Biden.” No one says “Joe,” or “Donald,” or “Barack.” So to add insult to disrespectful injury, they refuse to actually say her name correctly. Hence the “Kamabla” shit he’s been doing too.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve noticed that too. It was the same with “Hillary.”

    Using the last name is a sign of respect that they don’t think women deserve.

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    • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I almost used her as an example but I didn’t want to deal with the inevitable “it’s so she isn’t confused with her husband.

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      • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was having this conversation the other day. Pelosi came up as a counterexample.

        Now I’m not sure where the line is between subtle disrespect and simply using the more distinctive part of a candidate’s name.

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  • Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Kamala” is hard to pronounce, yet they never had a problem with “Barack Hussein Obama pause for the scary middle-eastern/Islamic-sounding name to sink into racist audience”

    And I love when Palin got called out directly for that and she backpedaled so hard, trying to make it sound like they always do that with everyone and started rattling off republican full names like that made a single bit of difference…

    Can we get a truth-o-meter to scrutinize all candidates during debates like they do in futurama?

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    • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly! It’s not hard to pronounce, it’s just not intuitive. I used to say “Ka-MAH-luh” too. One correction and I stopped. “Kah-mah-la” is easy for native English speakers. They are perfectly capable of saying it they just don’t want to.

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The one thing I find difficult about it is that I’ve heard it mispronounced so many times, I have to consciously think about which version is correct. I blame right-wing assholes for that.

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  His handlers have just barely managed to stop him from cashing her “Kamablack”.

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