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Republican leaders are warning party members against using overtly racist and sexist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, as they and former President Donald Trump ‘s campaign scramble to adjust to the reality of a new Democratic rival less than four months before Election Day.

At a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Richard Hudson, R-N.C., urged lawmakers to stick to criticizing Harris for her role in Biden-Harris administration policies.

“This election will be about policies and not personalities,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters after the meeting.

“This is not personal with regard to Kamala Harris,” he added, “and her ethnicity or her gender have nothing to do with this whatsoever.”

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[–] Intrama@lemmy.world 194 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yikes. The fact you gotta warn ppl is mind boggling.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 82 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, right? If you have to preemptively warn your elected party members to not do a racism or a sexism maybe you're the party of the racists and sexists.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 30 points 2 years ago

No no, the way it reads is not to do these things overtly.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

The coin has dropped that they'll have to go back to dropping hard Rs in private for a while if they want any chance at turning the country into a christofascist dictatorship.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 14 points 2 years ago

So is the fact that Trump won't be about to stop himself from doing it.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

AND it won’t work

[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 146 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hmm. Sounds woke. Republicans awaking to wokeness? Gotta try something when your base is infatuated with Old Sleepy Don, who can't stop defaming E. Jean Carroll and doesn't have anything bad to say about white supremacists.

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'd say that you and I should join some right-wing forums to make the point that this is "woke" and "anti-Republican", but I strongly suspect many of them are already saying it themselves.

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[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago

"Why am I being censored? Free speech under attack!"

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 99 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm afraid the archive link just keeps asking me if I'm a robot and won't let me in no matter how many times I check the box or tell them how many motorcycles I see.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This means that you're a bot now. I'm so sorry.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I’m afraid the archive link just keeps asking me if I’m a robot and won’t let me in no matter how many times I check the box or tell them how many motorcycles I see.

I agree with this person.

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[–] JesusSon@lemmy.world 76 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Hey listen guys just wait until we win and then we can say the N word whenever we want just like the good old days." - Mike "Hey son watch me jack it" Johnson

[–] HWK_290@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mike "my son controls my" Johnson

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago

The idea that men should never have to learn self control - instead relying on another man to do it for them - just shows how weak-kneed these dudes are.

Normal men - Be strong! Be brave!

Republicans - Not on my watch!

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Stop saying the quiet part out loud during campaign season. You can do it afterwards again"

From the party that has actively encouraged these white nationalists at every step

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Back to facial expressions it is!

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

She laughs! Womenfolk are not allowed to laugh.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

stop being sexist cries party that nominated a nineteen time serial sexual abuser of women.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago

And chldren.

[–] DeepThought42@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The party that has promoted a sexist and racist agenda for decades is surprised when its members publicly make sexist and racist comments about an opposing candidate? This very well could turn into a major leopard-ate-my-face moment and I'm ready for it with plenty of popcorn.

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Republican leaders urge hamburger club to steer clear of hamburgers

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[–] razorwiregoatlick@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The fact that they have to say that speaks volumes.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Steer clear, aka "stop making so many..."

Back in 2020, they found over 200000 bigoted comments or slanders against Harris alone.

They're ramping up now, of course: "Diversity hire", "escort", "slept her way to the top", doctored images of her and Epstein, etc:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sexist-falsehoods-target-kamala-harris-222921484.html

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[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

Both sides are the same? So far this is the only side whose leadership has to caution members to not be racist or sexist.

Now if they can get their followers on social media to do the same...

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah but then they don't have anything left

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 2 years ago

"We could run on our ideas..."

image of guy getting thrown out the boardroom window

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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Good luck with that.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

BREAKING NEWS: "Has the Republican party turned Woke?"

[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 years ago

Mission: Impossible

[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago

Can they warn party members to not incite another insurrection or civil war too?

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago
[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Pretty wild stuff, both sides are the same my ass. Could you imagine the Democrats having to tell their party members to not be bigots?

No you cannot and that is fucking incredible, The amount of cognitive dissonance you have to have to be a Republican is mind-boggling.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can shut it down on the outside but we all already know how deep inside them the racism dwells

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[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

But if they don't attack her on race and sex, how else are those inbred idiots gonna attack her? Because attacking is all they ever do.

Oh nvm they'll just make shit up like they normally do.

[–] Mikelius@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

They could focus on their wildly popular policies and ideas! Oh wait

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Republican leaders urge fish not to swim.

Trump made them think its fine to keep saying the quiet part out loud without realizing the majority hate the sexism and hopefully a majority also hate the racism. They don't know how to attack without dog whisteling and hopefully it continues to drive people away from them.

[–] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Narrator: “They didn’t.”

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 years ago

"Remember, the dog whistle is just as effective to rile up your base, so don't be afraid to use that instead"

[–] VanillaBean@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Guys guys, please wait until we win to unleash all that hate and racism"

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Time to secretly get some recordings of what they are really saying at their dinner party circles à la the recent recordings of Supreme Court justices discussing flags in their neighborhoods.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

May as well ask a horse to stop shitting in the street.

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