The sinister side of ‘whites for Kamala’
The sinister side of ‘whites for Kamala’
The Saturday Night Live skits practically write themselves. Over the past week, white supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign have gathered on whites-only virtual calls, barely distinguishable from parody, to self-flagellate and virtue-signal en masse.
First, there was the “White Women for Kamala” Zoom call with more than 200,000 attendees, including celebrities such as Megan Rapinoe and Pink. This featured plenty of hilarious moments, such as when one speaker told attendees they will “want to speak to a manager” while doing racial justice work but warned them that none exists, or when one TikToker told hundreds of thousands of adult white women to “put their listening ears on” and shut up when a “BIPOC” person (read: minority) is speaking. The Zoom call’s host summed up the event’s mood when she said, “I feel like we all just went to collective therapy together…”
So, on one hand, this new form of “woke” activism is genuinely hilarious. It offers enormous entertainment value if you can overcome the secondhand embarrassment. But there’s a sinister side to this new strain of Democratic white identity politics.