Kamala Harris is about as Asian as Elizabeth Warren is Native.
The first ever racefluid Vice President.
Asia is a continent. In the US, “Asian” refers to people of East Asian descent, like Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese, Malay, Singaporean, Filipino. It does not refer to Central or South Asians like Afghans, Turkmen, Indians, Bangladeshis or Pakistanis.
You might be able to get away with describing her as an Asian in the UK, as the term refers mainly to South Asians there, but that too would be incorrect given that she’s the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants in America. She is American. She isn’t Asian-American.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
They killed the Cuomo nursing home scandal with a story about sexual harassment. It’s why he’ll probably step down and why no one will remember how Cuomo and several other governors signed on to the same plan to put Covid patients into nursing homes. He was not the only one.
It’s depopulation (in a sense) and a pragmatic policy to stop pension funds from running out of money. They saw how Japan’s aging population has become a drain on the economy. Trimming the 70s and up fixes that.
Plus, if you wanna go full Malthusian and speculate on the reasons for it, a lot of these people truly believe in climate change and changing our whole economies is the only way to deal with that. Hence the Great Reset. They’re pretty open about this.
It can be a challenge to fight preconceived notions developed by well-crafted narratives intent on manipulating your emotions and decision-making. You have to reject confirmation bias—it’s a lazy shortcut your brain performs to simplify your understanding of a complex problem.
Take Trump for example. The media tells us he’s a racist, a bigot, a misogynist. Every one of his actions shows that he is none of these things, and so the media highlights out-of-context instances where he behaves in context to their narrative—their “big lie,” as it were.
For one who lives on a diet of Netflix, cable news, and friends who regurgitate the “big lie” about Trump—and with the threat of cancellation looming over your head should you reject the narrative—removing yourself from the echo chamber is not only difficult, it’s dangerous.