I can’t say we weren’t warned. In the final days of the presidential campaign, The New York Times is doing everything in its power to prevent President Donald Trump from making a second visit to the White House, just barely staving off a nervous breakdown. The Times’ strategy? Connecting Kamala Harris more closely than ever to identity politics.
The Sunday, Oct. 27, edition of the Times featured a front-page article about Harris’ years of “stock investing.” We’re assigned to the new vice president’s office, and she’s looking through intelligence reports just weeks after taking office. Is Ms. Harris moved by the terrifying complexity of world politics? Is it due to the Promethean capabilities of US espionage? Was it her own ignorance in the face of centuries of conflict and a geographically remote place she had never heard of? No, she was “shocked by the descriptions of the two foreign female leaders. The report used adjectives that, in her view, are rarely used to describe male leaders.” ”
When faced with what we don’t know, it’s natural to rely on what we know. But Harris’s reliance on gender theory when faced with the White House’s foreign policy responsibilities shows how insignificant her stock of ready-to-play concepts is. But Harris was so confident in her priorities and in her authority that in one of her first uses of vice presidential power, she ordered a gender-biased review of intelligence reports dating back years.
To rank high among U.S. foreign policy concerns, the alleged gender stereotyping of women leaders would have to be blinding. In fact, Harris’ study found no bias, despite occasional “questionable word choices,” as the Times put it. Nevertheless, the Times proudly reported that Harris had influence. Intelligence officials are now being trained to combat implicit bias against women leaders. Conference reports on foreign leaders are currently being reviewed for gender inequality. And Ms. Harris called for intelligence reports on how gender inequality in other countries undermines national security, an issue that appears far removed from U.S. national interests.
Even before Ms. Harris became foreign policy’s top gender critic, the deep state was rife with diversity doctrines, the effectiveness of which was arguably undermined by substandard diversity hiring. Ms. Harris made things worse, not just in the intelligence community but throughout the federal government.
The episode published in the Briefing Book turned out to foreshadow Harris’s reign. According to the Times, “the vice president has put issues of gender and race at the center of many policy discussions in his office.” According to a former aide, she was always “interested in race and gender.” “We all knew it was really important to her, so we decided to proactively add it to her briefing. She didn’t have to ask for it.”
Harris has probably never seen a racial disparity that isn’t caused by racism. If black women have higher pregnancy-related death rates than white women, it’s because of “systemic racial inequalities and implicit bias,” she says. Do they have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, smoking, and drug use? Are they less likely to attend prenatal and postnatal care and have lower compliance with medical instructions? These other possible factors in the differences in maternal mortality are never It may not be considered. The problem is white medical and political institutions. Harris convened the first-ever presidential cabinet to discuss racial disparities in maternal health and health care. The architects of the Constitution’s Balance of Power would have been dumbfounded by this theme. Citing these mortality disparities, Harris’ office pushed through billions of new Medicaid dollars for 12 months of postpartum care, regardless of whether the care is actually used.
Harris used the coronavirus pandemic as a vehicle to promote “health equity.” She committed $1.5 billion to creating a health care workforce that is, in her words, “more like America” (i.e., a health care system that prioritizes race over medical qualifications). Consistent with her advocacy for race-based medical practices, Harris cited the fact that three out of four COVID-19 vaccines administered at community health centers were given to “people of color.” praised.
Vice President Harris was involved in a multibillion-dollar push to remove lead pipes from black communities. It is doubtful whether the benefits of that effort will outweigh the costs. She directed billions more in funding to community banks, regardless of efficiency, because their customers are disproportionately black and Hispanic. In 2022, she called for hurricane relief to be provided “on the basis of equity,” meaning on the basis of race. And in a stunning constitutional violation, she promised this month to forgive 1 million loans of up to $20,000 each to Black business borrowers.
The Times published two more articles this week that focused voters’ attention on identity politics. Both are taken from the same source: Michelle Obama’s defiant speech in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday, October 26th. President Obama embodies what Ann Coulter calls an “angry black woman.” Here, Obama denounced in chilling detail men’s indifference to the fate of women’s “bodies.”
If your wife is shivering and bleeding on the operating table after a failed scheduled delivery, if your blood pressure is dropping due to increased blood loss, or if an unexpected infection develops and you’re not sure if your doctor can handle it. If not, this is what you will get. People praying that it won’t be too late. You will be begging someone to do something for you.
The former first lady offered a hilarious theory that women are afraid to talk about their bodies and their “reproductive health.” Some would argue that this is pretty much all we’ve been talking about this election season. According to President Obama, there needs to be more discussion about menstruation and menopause, and perhaps a discussion emanating from the White House. Unsurprisingly, she voiced the disturbing sentiment that women are dying prematurely due to men’s indifference. In fact, females live nearly six years longer than males. Men die from diabetes at a 60 percent higher rate than women. The cancer death rate for men is 189.5 per 100,000, compared to 135.7 per 100,000 for women. The federal government pours billions of taxpayer dollars into women’s health initiatives. Men have almost nothing coded into their gender. But surprisingly, according to President Obama’s address to chivalrous men, it is women who are underserved. You feel like the floor has fallen out from under you. . . And I don’t think any of us fully understand how vulnerable this makes us feel. ”
Obama’s speech was the gift that keeps on giving. Two days after the Times’ initial report, the paper produced another article based on it. The article focused on her claims that Harris faces a “double standard.” President Obama’s complaints stem from the outdated conceit that blacks must be significantly better than whites to be hired, promoted, or admitted. Today’s reality is the opposite. Black applicants are accepted into universities, law schools, medical schools, and business schools even with test scores that are much lower than the average for whites and Asians. This double standard favoring black people continues both during and during employment. Harris is Vice President today because she is a Black woman. She has many counterparts throughout the federal government and will likely have many such clones if she becomes president.
Michelle Obama was the perfect surrogate for Harris. The resentment, self-pity, anger, and paranoia contained in Obama’s speech may have been suppressed in Harris’ own rhetoric for now, but they will resurface in a more pernicious form if she becomes president. Probably. Racial and gender preferences will become more prevalent in federal policy. The provision of excellent talent and grants, regardless of colorblindness, often reflects bureaucratic oversight more than institutional values.
The New York Times is so caught up in its ideological bubble that it thinks highlighting Harris’ history of identity politics will help push her over the finish line. We are currently notifying you.
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