It is outrageous that a newscaster, in this case Fox News’ Jesse Watters, would say this about anyone, let alone a Presidential candidate. Secondly, I am quite bothered that MSNBC host Katie Tur (in video below) would even suggest that in some other context what he said would be okay. In NO CONTEXT is what he said okay. Symone Sanders-Townsend schools her, see below:
I also want to update you on the JD Vance slur towards Kamala Harris and the Miss Teen USA contestant, Caitlyn Upton. First of all, the video of Ms. Upton is not new to social media, she has been ridiculed before and suffered depression and suicidal thoughts because of it. It’s very sad, and I hope she is okay now. As I said in my last newsletter, she is a victim of the patriarchy.
But did Vance apologize? Of course not. He has double-downed, and as I suspected he would, he claims it was a joke and “we should all be able to laugh at ourselves.”
I applaud CNN correspondant John Berman for this interview. Vance says “We have to laugh at ourselves….have some fun in politics…I will not apologize for posting a joke.” It reminds me of way back when, during the Second Wave of Feminism, when it was said that feminists had no sense of humor because they would not laugh at sexist jokes.
The sexism in this Presidential election is at a higher volume than I can recall, and it’s because they’re scared. It was bad when Hillary ran for President, and they were scared then, too— but this time it’s worse. Perhaps because Trump has had close to ten public years of practicing this horrible hate, and now he has the open support from misogynists like Vance and Watters (and his rally goers). They emboldened him, and he them. It’s always been under the surface, but now it’s out there. And, because Harris is a Black woman, it is even more frightening to them. Unlike Hillary, a white woman, she is an “unknown” (and they keep saying that). She is “other.”
I won’t let this go, we can’t let this stuff pass without outrage. Please share.
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