132

I wonder why he might be "estranged"? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

35 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago

I mean the dude's a very slightly left-leaning neoliberal economist at Princeton so let's not give him too much credit. He's mostly pissed at all the "Jamaicans like smoking weed" references his daughter keeps making.

[-] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's like Buttigieg's dad, people hear Marxist and think some sort of radical, instead of a boringly standard academic in history or economics.

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

He's mostly pissed at all the "Jamaicans like smoking weed" references his daughter keeps making.

Wild isn't it, imagine having a daughter who first gained notoriety for her brutal ""tough on crime"" policies which imprisoned people (predominantly black and other POC though that's obvious) for weed, and then made a 180° turn to becoming the most annoying "weed, bro" hunter stereotype panderer.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

It isn't the most infuriating thing that she's done, but it's up there.

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Looking it up if nothing else it had a hell of a payoff: https://web.archive.org/web/20190218061545/https://www.jamaicaglobalonline.com/donald-harris-slams-his-daughter-senator-kamala-harris-for-fraudulently-stereotyping-jamaicans-and-accusing-her-of-playing-identity-politics/

“My dear departed grandmothers(whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents , must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.”