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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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  - SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Valid
    
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