What Next: The DEI Smear Against Kamala Harris

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

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Calling Kamala Harris a “DEI hire” is both sexist and racist, and despite the GOP leadership’s pleading, it has quickly emerged as a favored line of attack from the right. Guest: Dr. Brittney Cooper, professor of gender studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ever since President Biden dropped out of the race, there's been a particular attack
0:09.8	lobbed at Vice President Kamala Harris coming from the right.
0:13.4	They're in a box.
0:16.4	They're in a box where they've got to choose between a mentally incompetent president
0:19.8	and a DEI vice president.
0:22.1	It's Republican lawmakers. It's conservative
0:25.3	commentators on TV. I think she was a dei hire and I think that that's what
0:30.3	was. It's spoken like a refrain.
0:35.0	100% she was a DEI hire.
0:38.0	You hear it over and over again. Yeah, and then there's the DEI press secretary telling you that the DEI vice president is her whole history is
0:43.6	DEI diversity. The only reason Kamala is in the White House is because of the
0:49.7	D. E. I deal, Biden cut with Burry. She's a D.E. I hire, right?
0:54.1	She's a woman.
0:55.9	They chose her because of D.E.I.
0:58.7	And they're stuck with her.
1:02.2	It's not a secret what any of this is supposed to mean.
1:05.0	For a code word, this one is pretty thinly veiled.
1:09.0	We are starting to see the conservative arm of this race be incredibly racist and sexist towards her.
1:19.5	That is the terminology that the GOP is choosing to go back to in this moment and doing their very best to make it stick as a derisive term
1:28.4	Which is to say this language of diversity equity and inclusion
1:31.7	Dr Brittany Cooper is a professor of gender studies
1:35.1	and Africana studies at Rutgers University.
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