Should I Feel Guilty About Judging Kamala Harris?
Voters must undergo the messy, piecemeal process of trying to hold her accountable without being unfair.
by Kate Manne
Aug 19, 2020
4 minutes
America is seeing only the beginning of the attacks that Kamala Harris will face. Voters will expect her to be supportive of Joe Biden, of course, but they will inevitably find her insufficiently loyal and deferential. They will dismiss her as, cold, and schoolmarmish. They will hear her voice as. They will call her inauthentic, a liar, and a phony. Many people will want too much, and too much of the wrong things, from Harris, and will hold her to an unattainable standard because of her gender and race. Given her identity, her talents, and the barriers she is breaking, she will be subject to an ugly morass of biases—an embarrassment of misogyny and
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