Itâs possible that all the complaints about Ms. Harrisâs speaking style are just another bit of trumped-up outrage, anything to get people fired up for a moment. But my less generous interpretation is that conservatives find her accent infuriating for one very specific reason: because they buy the negative stereotypes. They associate Southern accents with less educated, working-class people who, if theyâre white, might be racist â and thatâs a demographic that conservatives cynically regard as their property.
When Mr. Trump does photo ops in a big rig and says, âI love the uneducated,â heâs not so much code-switching as code-hitching, adopting signifiers that he â a billionaire with inherited wealth and an Ivy League degree â has no authentic claim to understanding, but which he thinks will appeal to his base. This is the same reason the private school alum and two-time Ivy League graduate Ted Cruz elongates his drawl while declaring that liberals can âkiss my ass.â Because he and Mr. Trump think itâs useful.
Perhaps the most enduring fiction that Republicans have sold to the electorate is that despite significantly shifting the tax burden onto working people, enacting explicitly antilabor policies, trying to gut public education and attenuate what little social safety net this country still offers, Republicans are somehow supposedly the better party for the working class.
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I find it fascinating that this is even a 'thing.' I think Republicans are misconstruing the word 'Accents' with the word 'Action.'
Itâs possible that all the complaints about Ms. Harrisâs speaking style are just another bit of trumped-up outrage, anything to get people fired up for a moment. But my less generous interpretation is that conservatives find her accent infuriating for one very specific reason: because they buy the negative stereotypes. They associate Southern accents with less educated, working-class people who, if theyâre white, might be racist â and thatâs a demographic that conservatives cynically regard as their property.
When Mr. Trump does photo ops in a big rig and says, âI love the uneducated,â heâs not so much code-switching as code-hitching, adopting signifiers that he â a billionaire with inherited wealth and an Ivy League degree â has no authentic claim to understanding, but which he thinks will appeal to his base. This is the same reason the private school alum and two-time Ivy League graduate Ted Cruz elongates his drawl while declaring that liberals can âkiss my ass.â Because he and Mr. Trump think itâs useful.
Perhaps the most enduring fiction that Republicans have sold to the electorate is that despite significantly shifting the tax burden onto working people, enacting explicitly antilabor policies, trying to gut public education and attenuate what little social safety net this country still offers, Republicans are somehow supposedly the better party for the working class.
it's gotten to the point where Vance is pretty much saying "The idiots that support us will believe whatever we say, so long as we say it about people they hate".
I bit on that one...and all I came up with was a tweet about supporting a bail fund charity in the early days of the george floyd protests.
hardly the equivalent...or even a bad suggestion.
Like jd vance, if he has to create a story to support his narrative he has no problem with it not being based in reality.
Well in all fairness, she did openly support the insurrectionists in Minneapolis by raising bail money for them. You know, where they seized a government building, a police station and burned it to the ground in open defiance of the government.
I bit on that one...and all I came up with was a tweet about supporting a bail fund charity in the early days of the george floyd protests.
hardly the equivalent...or even a bad suggestion.
Well she does change the accent she speaks with depending who she is speaking to. Just like Hillary did / still does.
Just like I still do. To make the people I speak with comfortable with what I say. And I change the number of syllables in the words, to make sure that my message is received.
I can use big words, and you can too, but you really don't spend your time discussing diopters and focal length using those exact words.
And, when in southern Louisiana, my drawl shows up. But not in Ohio.
There's nothing evil about that; it's communication skills.
This is what's worrisome:
Because, of course, she'd be taken to task for "flip flopping" or some such inanity otherwise.
Plus, she's not a dancing monkey. Just because someone wishes she say something different doesn't mean she has to. Sheesh.
It would be the ultimate irony if laws governing women's reproduction facilitated the election of our first female president. Red states are freaking over dramatic increases in voter registration.
"She knew the questions in advance!!!"
We ALL knew the questions in advance. That's why she was prepared and he wasn't.
Economy, immigration, health care, dog eating, Russia/Ukraine. This wasn't that hard to study for.
Even more amazing is her being all things California which is the only place in the country where you can be arrested and locked up for, wait for it ... watering your lawn.
Give it a rest stu. She could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and still be the better candidate. Do check back when she istigates an insurection though.
Well in all fairness, she did openly support the insurrectionists in Minneapolis by raising bail money for them. You know, where they seized a government building, a police station and burned it to the ground in open defiance of the government.
I find it fascinating that this is even a 'thing.' I think Republicans are misconstruing the word 'Accents' with the word 'Action.' 
Red states are freaking over dramatic increases in voter registration.