Kamala and the white ladies
Kamala is 100 percent a liberal white girl fantasy: a girl boss president defeats the scary Orange Man, gives everyone a free abortion, then heads out for cocktails with the girlies.
Well, well, well. Only a week into the phenomenon that is candidate Kamala Harris, and we are already knee-deep in the desperate, people-pleasing, liberal, white lady schtick.
First, a caveat. If you are a liberal white lady who is also a personal friend of mine and by some unfortunate sequence of events happen to read this, please don’t take this as directed at you. I still think you are cool. But on a macro level, the liberal white women of America are on the brink of taking the United States into some very dangerous waters. The establishment blob is so desperate to avoid a Trump presidency that they are willing to support a woman who is so flippant and unserious that she would embrace a youth culture trend of "brat." Which means being “just that girl who is a little messy and maybe says dumb things sometimes, who feels herself but then also maybe has a breakdown but parties through it. It is honest, blunt, and a little bit volatile.” Those words are from the singer, Charli XCX, whose album brat is taking the summer by storm, and who this week crowned (Kween-d?) Kamala as “brat.” So relatable.
In other words, Kamala is 100 percent a liberal white girl fantasy. The kind of fantasy in which a girl boss president defeats the scary Orange Man, gives everyone a free abortion, then heads out for cocktails with the girlies. Cuz girls can do anything, we’re badasses!
I’m probably being a bit too hard on the white ladies. Kamala’s coronation by the Dem puppeteers is also obviously a very cringe ploy to win back African-Americans, by assuming they have not figured out yet that Harris is actually Jamaican-Indian. I guess to white liberals all those melanated folks are interchangeable!
But Kamala’s ascension has definitely re-energised a very vocal and influential cultural force, the guilt-ridden, trying-very-hard, desperate-for-validation, liberal, white woman. They have gleefully left old man Biden in the dust, and are now organising a concerted campaign to prove to black people that they are the number one best ally.
I think I found the apex of this type of woman, on X. This is her actual profile photo.
She might as well be wearing a cape with gold lettering on the back that reads: “ATTENTION BLACK PEOPLE: I AM HERE TO SAVE YOU.”
In a series of posts in support of Kamala — who again, and I cannot stress this enough, is NOT African-American — she really goes to town on the guilt-tripping of her fellow white ladies.
“Fellow white women: I've spent the last decade organizing you and I know firsthand the impact you can have when you use your economic and political power for good. This MUST be the election when a majority of us help elect the first woman, a Black woman, President.”
She drags out all the stock phrases that for the last ten or so years have been used to brow-beat well-off white women into supporting the destruction of education and policing, and to keep them mired in a toxic stew of worshipping the perceived superiority of people of colour while violently loathing everything about “whiteness.”
“Use your privilege for good.”
“Do the work.”
“Think about all the ways you can use your access.”
I feel compelled to repeat that these phrases are in no way organic, normal, words strung together to communicate a thought. They are mantras, taken directly from the worst race-charlatans of our time, and repeated over and over and over again. They worked very effectively in the past, especially during the first Trump administration, which is when I first started to notice them. And they have been deployed once again to steal back the attention of a nation that was looking the other way — at inflation, crime, unchecked immigration, the obvious derangement of the elites, the attempted assassination of Trump, etc., etc. We’ll have to wait and see if the ploy works this time as well.
Of course, one of the chief white girls for Kamala is Ella Emhoff, her step-daughter. Ella is very on trend, in that she’s benefiting from the new thing where young women — even models, which Ella apparently is — can be kind of ugly. Gone are the bouncy ’80’s hot bods and the beautiful ‘90’s waifs. In 2024, plain, awkward, bad skin, slightly crossed-eyed, hairy — that’s the ticket. God forbid any liberal girl be so bold as to show beauty privilege. So Ella is leaning in to that, and why not. Smoke em if you got em, amirite?
Ella is also in tune with her fellow Gen Z’ers by having both a twee, old-timey hobby — knitting — and loving Hamas. Once again, wealthy American liberals show themselves to be unmoored from cold, hard reality in ways that are both silly and ridiculous, and nightmarish and murderous — at the same time!
Only time will tell if this oestrogen-driven Kamala frenzy has any electoral heft. I’m inclined to see it more as a feedback loop of engaging social media posts and traditional media click-bait. But I do not underestimate the power of combining craven white lady guilt with the nefarious plotting of Democratic deep-state interests. It has moved nations before. And always in a very bad direction.
