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Trump thinks mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name is a good attack route.

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[–] [email protected] 158 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yea so... making fun of someone's name is sophomoric. I'm sure some Trump folks love it but actual adults really don't give a shit. I was even kind of annoyed years back when people were attacking Trump because of the Drumpf surname - as if half of America didn't have their name butchered by Ellis Island.

The asshole doesn't have any actual criticisms that will stick so he's resorting to school yard bullying.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not just sophomoric, as the article points out. Plain old bigoted.

"It's one thing to mispronounce someone's name on the first try, right? But to do it repeatedly and deliberately, it feels purposeful. It's certainly done to make a point. It is othering, a way of saying you don't belong here," said Jean Sinzdak, the associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

"I would describe it as a racist and sexist attack on her because she's been the vice president for three and a half years," Sinzdak said. "It's not hard to say her name. It's not complicated."

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It’s a lot simpler than that for psychopaths like Trump: it’s a simple cut that’s dehumanizing. It’s an easy way to say, “You mean nothing to me, and I know this hurts you, so I will keep on hurting you as much as possible whenever I can because I can, and that gratifies me.”

It’s one of the most effective trolling behaviors there is, because, no matter how big a person you are, it will always cut a little. And it is also one of the most obvious signs that someone is a psychopath. Because they hurt someone just because they can.

You see it all the time from trolls on the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have a very common American name, but with a very European spelling. I’m 41 fucking years old. It gets under my skin at least a little bit when I see it misspelled, regardless of how understandable it is…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is it something with like an "ou" instead of just "o"?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

His name is Michael but it’s spelled Mouchel

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I once met an American whose name was pronounced "Keevan". His written name was Kevin...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

American Football player Brett Favre pronounces his last name "farv" and I wish I knew why.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

actual adults don’t really give a shit

From my experience most of Trump’s camp act like middle schoolers, so you’d be right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, also, I know Germany is like the one "okay" group to rag on in the US because of historical reasons, but like, what's wrong with having a German last name?

It's not like you get to choose your ancestry.

You do, however, get to choose whether you try to be a dictator.