Nate Silver is, frankly, disgusting. He’s got a bachelor’s degree in economics . He learned enough from his undergraduate study of economics about statistics to get into statistics as a profession. That’s admirable and he’s had success with that. He’s not qualified to lecture marginalized communities and women from his white tech bro privilege about how to navigate bigotry while in politics. His nominal goal is to praise Vice President Kamala Harris, but he goes about this by trashing realistic explanations of the discrimination that women and people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community face. It is so fucking cringe. It made me want to vomit. He describes Former Secretary of State thusly:
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And attempting to come across as cool and collected, but maybe coming across as cold and entitled instead.
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When a man has appropriate experience and points to it while in pursuit of higher office, it’s fine, but when a woman does it because qualified women are attacked as unqualified , then they’re entitled. When he says, “Gender is not his beat”, then he is admitting that he knows he should stay in his lane. He refers to realistic references of the obstacles that political candidates from marginalized communities have to face as
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than the nails-on-a-chalkboard tones of what I call “Social Justice Leftism”
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He claims that addressing white privilege is about “dividing us into identity groups” as if those divisions weren’t already there and as if members of marginalized communities were treated as well as straight white tech bros. He talks about the triangulation and shows he thinks that she poll-tested everything before saying or doing it a single moment’s consideration of the several decades of sexist attacks she endured. It was so bad that there were multiple books on the topic. Amy Chozick wrote a book entitled, ‘Chasing Hillary’ about ’30 years of sexist attacks’ and Michael D’Antonio wrote a book entitled, ‘The Hunting of Hillary, the forty year campaign to destroy Hillary Clinton’. When your every move is analyzed in ways men’s moves aren’t, then, guess what? You’re going to end up poll-testing everything.
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When a member of a marginalized community breaks through some barrier and gets the door open, then they want to be polite and hold the door open for other qualified people who were dismissed because of their identity. Don’t try to use Vice President Kamala Harris to try to make an argument that we and especially those seeking elected office should never address the obstacles that they had to overcome realistically.
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