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Kamala’s Scripted Moment: What’s Missing
So I watched Vice President* Harris’s little scripted moment intended to make her look like a human celebrate World Space Week. I didn’t find her performance as cringe-inducing as a lot of people, but that may be simply because my expectations are so low: she’s as charming as Hillary and as phony as a trillion-dollar bill, after all. It was about what I’d expect.
What I found odd about the whole thing, what seemed left out, had to do with the demographics of her little handpicked group of child actors and actresses. Something isn’t quite right.
Consider: her five guests included a black boy, a black girl, a somewhat androgynous Asian boy, an Asian girl, and a very blonde white girl.
Okay, I watch the commercials during football games. I know that this lineup pretty much represents America, with no significant demographic left out. Everyone who matters is represented (even if it’s a little heavy on Asians, but, hey, we’re talking about a science-y kind of thing, after all).
But here’s the thing. I have no idea, because Kamala didn’t tell us, which of these children are in same-sex relationships. I know from the television ads that about one in three Americans are gay, so I figure two of these kids experience strong same-sex attraction. It just seems a little disrespectful to the alphabet people (as that comedian calls them) that it wasn’t spelled out for us.
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Well, it’s a center left country and I think most conservatives don’t object while most Libs give it kudos.
As long as their profits suffer as a result, I guess it’s okay. Heck maybe they’ll even go out of business.
To deter the peaceful protesters from looting and burning down their brick and mortar and killing whoever is convenient while the police stand by to protect their free speech rights.
Miscegeny recapitulates ideology.
Those poor mix-raced kids. Their black half has to hate their white half, their white half has to hate itself, and both halves have to hate their white parent.
May as well round it up to 49%.
I noticed how closed up her body language was. Arms crossed, forearms over groin, legs crossed, leaning forward in nearly a fetal position. somebody was very uncomfortable, and it wasn’t the paid child actors.
Maybe Rob Long can offer an insight or two on this.
I saw one the other day with a black woman/white guy. My only reaction was how could she be with that schlub?
Just like in real life. A black man is more masculine, so the oppressor white woman gets to enjoy his love.
Well, that went a bit off the rails….
Honestly, I think most of the unrepresentative representation in television ads is the result of ad buyers being convinced — because they’re as misinformed as everyone else — that America is really concerned about a lack of diversity, and they’ll get virtue points for signaling that they’re entirely on board with whatever the enlightened people think is social justice, etc.
For most of them, I think it’s that simple: they’re chasing what they think will be the approval of consumers.
Perhaps. I think the primary motivation is insulating themselves against criticism. The secondary motivation is telling themselves they’re doing the Right Thing. The tertiary motivation is instructional, to tell the Morlocks how it should be.
Hot.
With regard to interracial mating patterns, asian females and black males seem to be valued more than others. I think multiracial couples should genetically engineer their children accordingly
So much is cultural though.
This has been studied and is due to cultural perceptions. Black males are seen as most masculine (Asian males as least) and Asian females are seen as most feminine (Black females as least). Whites fall in the middle on both perceptual scales. I guess that’s white privilege…comparative mediocrity. Of course, this doesn’t break down perceptions within “Whites” based on cultural nationality, but we can probably make some guesses based on stereotypes, as this was.
Genetic engineering isn’t going to make a difference. It’s a cultural perception and will go away as the culture changes.
How can you be sure that it isn’t genetic? The human preference for hourglass figure ladies. Seems to be genetic and pretty much universal across time and locations.
Then shouldn’t black women have evolved to be more hourglass over time? And Asian women not quite so… “slender?”
Hourglass women still have advantages when selecting for mates but about a million things could kill you back in the day. A great figure didn’t guarantee your survival as much a resistances to disease.
Sure, but why didn’t the hourglass women who are more resistant to disease, come out ahead?
Would you claim that something about hourglass figure, in and of itself, is less disease-resistant?
Or maybe only hourglass black women are less disease-resistant?
Standards of beauty have changed radically over history and across cultures. Put that stuff in a movie and nobody would get it. I don’t recall a novel where they tried very hard to convey it, either, but this is Ricochet so I expect a few examples will be brought forward.
I’m not seeing what the * was for.
There are many different things that nature selects for.
This man of “science” spoke for over eight minutes, of many, many conclusive studies and brilliant researchers, without actually citing any studies or naming any researchers. Pathetic.
Genetic-heritage “X” women whose faces are considered relatively attractive, on average, to heritage “X” men are also found attractive to heritage “Y” men, no matter what X and Y are.
Thus: A “black African” woman whose face is “beautiful” in black Africa is also beautiful in China, Western Europe, Anglo America, etc.
Source: I read it on the Internet.
(My Internet source made no mention of the perceived attractiveness of other female body parts. I’m pretty sure that that is more culture-driven, based on what studies show. Mostly the study of what my best friend, who reached puberty in French Canada, considered the perfect female thorax versus what I, a Native American, think, as expressed in terms of various types of wine glass.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7670065/
Her. Are these enough studies for you?
Who is less effective Border Czar Harris or Transpo Secretary Buttigieg?
Effective at what?
I think one of the Asians identified as Hispanic . . .