The choice of Kamala Harris and the “segregationist” drift of identity politics
Poor Kamala Harris. Selected as a candidate for vice president of the United States for the mere fact of being the most expendable among the non-white women of the small lot, she finds herself having to carry a bottle-holder to a character that so far she herself has branded as nothing short of lacking on the issues race and gender. Of course, the doctor didn't order it, certainly not Dr. Martin Luther King, but that's the way things are, in the tragicomic short-circuit of an identity politics that denies its own presuppositions for mere electoral and careerist gain.
"It's personal," Harris snarled during a debate at the dawn of the Democratic primary, just before attacking Biden because he expressed appreciation for segregationist senators and for the policies to that effect he has directly carried out over the years. All trace of Kamala's personality had been lost, after the thin figure remedied in the race for the party nomination, from which she had withdrawn in the preliminary stages precisely because of the difficulty in distinguishing herself and being recognized by the voters. Among the few highlights of his national limelight, in addition to the attack on the aging front runner on the issue of race, the solidarity and praise expressed towards women who had accused Biden of sexually inappropriate behavior: "I believe those women – he said the California senator – and I respect them for telling their story and for having the courage to do so ”. Certainly more courage than that (not) shown by Harris, who – despite in the meantime the accusations against Biden have escalated, and despite in the recent past for much less Kamala has beaten hard against Judge Brett Kavanaugh during the confirmation hearing of his appointment to the Supreme Court – it's safe to bet he'll never say a word on the matter again, certainly not before taking Biden's place in the Oval Office. For personal reasons, this could be the plan, in the presence of which every coherence and every breath of dignity can be serenely eclipsed: if Paris was worth a mass well, the White House is certainly worth a mass at the expense of its own possible principles. Much more useful to the cause, as promptly executed, picking on Trump, who is a "predator", and the senator knows this because she understands him ("I recognize a predator when I see him", she tweeted, without specifying who reported and lending the side to a series of caustic comments on his ticket companion). According to Harris, in compliance with the doctrine of the MeToo , all women must be believed, but evidently one must no longer believe those who accuse the one who could ferry her up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and up to the inclusion of her name in all future books. of text.
Mind you: the candidate vice president certainly knows her stuff and should not be underestimated. Even if at the first official release it did nothing but arouse yawns and sighs among those capable of understanding and wanting, speaking, as already well-known script, of the virus of systemic racism, a somewhat distracted virus, considering for example that recently a black has led for all the mandates constitutionally at his disposal the greatest world power and that soon a certain Kamala could imitate him. Twice the almost 56-year-old Californian has been elected attorney general of California, the most populous state in the US, and has brought with her at least a certain inquisitive attitude to the Senate. But that's not what it was chosen for. Unfortunately, she was chosen only as a black woman figurine. No one knows his beliefs, no one knows his proposals, no one knows his hypothetical specific qualities: at the democratic convention Barack Obama about Harris limited himself to talking about a "story that will inspire", his wife Michelle said that finally the girls as she was once they will be able to see someone on TV who looks the same as themselves, while Biden argued that perhaps now black girls (Biden, a man of many ages ago, often also adds "and the brown ones") will be able to see each other for the first time in a new way. Stories, girls, appearance … And we who believed that politics was something for adults and that what counted were the ideas and the concreteness of legislative and administrative action.
The big, sad teaching that oozes from all of this is that it doesn't matter what your values are, it doesn't matter what your abilities are, it only matters what your outward appearance is, it only matters whether your profile fits into a narrative or not. exploitable. It is not a question of merit, no matter the substance: positive or negative, for the mainstream only accidental elements such as skin pigmentation or sexual connotation count. Harris herself had been criticized by "progressive" circles for simply identifying herself as "a proud American" (in English there is not even a gender, "a proud american" can be either male or female or anything else). Oh no, Kamala, so break the game. Get back to your seat. Return to occupy your box. Identify yourself. You are a woman and you are an African-Asian-American woman. You are none other than that.
This is the drift of identity politics fomented by the now dominant "culture" at almost all latitudes and longitudes, a policy that has taken hostage the American Democratic Party and its counterparts in the rest of the world. A drift that buries the individual and individuality, which separates people into factions by pitting them against each other, which does not integrate but disintegrates, which advocates confrontation, which exalts diversity not as a richness and physiological part of normality but as trench in which to lock oneself up to start blind and indiscriminate attacks. A doctrine, this yes, segregationist. The dear old man divides and conquers .
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