Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) acknowledged — but did not condemn — white supremacist attacks aimed at his wife, Usha Vance, over her Indian descent on Friday.

“Look, I love my wife so much. I love her because she’s who she is,” former President Donald Trump’s running mate told Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM show.

He continued, “Obviously, she’s not a white person and we’ve been accused — attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha. She’s such a good mom, she’s such a brilliant lawyer and I’m so proud of her.”

Trump’s vice presidential pick, who has faced backlash for going after “childless” Democrats in 2021 with a comment he recently called “sarcastic,” added that his wife’s experience has helped give him the perspective that it’s “very hard” for working families in America.

  • @inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    Man, to be that into the whole “If I just act whiter, I’ll be accepted” that she must go through in her head every, single, day of her life just to be white adjacent is just mind blowing to me.

    She’s so emotionally damaged from believing in the whole model minority myth that she’s okay with being shit on by her husband and his party every single day of her life just makes me so utterly sad that she’s so broken that way.

    • tiredofsametab
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      My guess would be something like ‘of being a race traitor’ based on the language I’ve heard that crowd use previously.

  • Nougat
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    See, he can’t actually go after these attacks for being the racist epithets that they are, because that would offend the Republican base. He’s got to thread that needle of “defending his wife” and “still being racist.”

  • This guy is really banking on the fact that cult45 is incredibly stupid. He’s said a bunch of shit the cult won’t appreciate. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.

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    attacked by some white supremacists over that

    That sort of implies that there are other white supremacists he doesn’t have a problem with, right?

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      There is some variability to white supremacists. My cousins (lifelong Floridians, naturally) are white supremacists despite being half-Thai. They probably don’t have any problem with Usha - for them, white supremacy is about hating people of African descent specifically.

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      and he said like her skin color was an affliction that they would cure if they were able to

      and talked about her like a male porn performer talks to a female performer “He is so proud of her and her performance.”

  • @thedridge@lemmy.world
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    It’s telling that he jumped to defend how much he loves her, and in a way that seemed to be saying “It’s okay, she’s one of the GOOD ones!”, rather than condemning or decrying the racist, hateful acts themselves.

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    added that his wife’s experience has helped give him the perspective that it’s “very hard” for working families in America.

    She’s a lawyer who went to Yale. Her father was a mechanical engineer and her mother was a molecular biologist. They are a working family, but not the type of working family that should give you a new perspective on how hard it is for working families in America. This is the opposite of a working family that struggles for financial security.

    • @Kiernian@lemmy.world
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      Yes, but they have to keep associating “person of color” with “poor” and therefore “crime”. If they don’t keep lumping all non-white people in with other “undesirable” things, some of their followers might look around and realize that non-white people can achieve things on their own too, and that makes non-white folks start to resemble actual human beings a bit too much for their liking. If she was single, he wouldn’t be lauding any of her achievements. The unspoken belief is that women are as incapable as non-whites when there’s no husband involved. The dehumanizing and belittling narrative has to be constant with them or some of their followers might start thinking for themselves.

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        229 months ago

        We interrupt this thread to point out that Peter Thiel is an Enormous Bag of Shit

    • Todd Bonzalez
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      If he can find difficulty in his upper-class life, why did he join the party that wants to crush people orders of magnitude poorer than him?

      Answer: He’s a malicious sociopath and in it entirely for his own enrichment.

    • @Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca
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      Especially for someone whose whole identity is based on growing up as a good ol’ Appalachian boy, it’s pretty weird to say he’s learned much of anything about the struggles of working families from his wife’s experiences. Unless --gasp-- perhaps he’s exaggerated the experiences of his childhood?

    • @Doxatek@mander.xyz
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      Mechanical engineer is surely some good money. But from experience there’s a big spectrum of pay depending on what her mother specifically did as a molecular biologist. Sounds really intense but biology pays pretty shit sometimes haha. I know molecular biologists with PhDs working for 16 an hour at a nonprofit near me.

  • @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    1149 months ago

    LOL the article mentions nick fuentes, whose name i’ve seen, but don’t know much about, so i looked him up. my favorite:

    He has described himself as the “straightest guy” and attempted to defend himself as an incel by claiming that “the only really straight heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel”, as “having sex with women is gay … What’s gayer than being like, ‘I need cuddles. I need kisses … I need to spend time with a woman.’”[30][31][32]

    LOL what the chicken fried fuck

  • jprice
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    JD Vance is a bitchass cunt and won’t defend anyone because of that fact.