Youngkin steps in it again
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
Exactly. He graciously apologized as soon as he realized his mistake. Not her, though! Apparently, she doesn't have to apologize when she's wrong. Interesting. |
Anonymous
+1. Asian woman here. Meanwhile, my husband (white guy) had to stop and think about whether he had ever been mistaken for someone else and couldn’t think of more than one example. |
Anonymous
Oh, please. White people get mistaken for other white people ALL the time. I can't count the number of times I've addressed someone by the wrong name because I mistook them for someone else, or vice-versa. Why is that only "horribly racist" when the people in question are POC? 
DP |
Anonymous
On the flip side, all of us blond haired girls look alike And when 30yr old men were wearing skinny jeans, over sized glasses, and a beard - they all look alike to me. |
Anonymous
Maybe he's very unusual looking. Who knows. I *do* know that plenty of white people look alike and are hard to distinguish from one another. But that's ok I guess, as long as they're white. |
Anonymous
Yep. My husband looks like all the other dads in the neighborhood, with their Covid beards. |
Anonymous
| Both their last names start with "L". Who the hell cares. |
Anonymous
| Young kin supporters are hypocrites and idiots. According to them , it’s always a Democrats fault even if it’s a high school student . And Youngkin is held to such a low standard that we are never allowed to find fault in his actions and lame apologies. |
Anonymous
Exactly. |
Anonymous
I think if you are not a person of color you don’t really understand why this is pretty offensive. It’s one thing if there is an isolated incident of confusion or you look like someone else, it’s another if something official like the governor (or probably a secretary or intern) confuses you on a professional level like this. I have a friend who is Cuban and was trying to get in a sorority in college with another friend, who was also Cuban. One of them was red headed and extremely fair, the other olive skinned with black hair. People in the sorority confused them all the time. My friend eventually got fed up and declined to join. I have another POC friend who is a professor at a well regarded university and was confused with her Puerto Rican colleague all the time, despite looking totally different, one being maybe 7 inches taller than the other, and being different ethnicities altogether. There is something really offensive about being mistaken for someone else *just because* you are both an “other,” not because you look alike or are otherwise alike. It’s dehumanizing and makes you feel invisible. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
It’s painfully amusing to realize that the very person who campaigned against what he decided to call “Critical Race Theory” apparently the critical skills to be able to tell two very different Black women apart. Perhaps remedial CRT training could help with that? |
Anonymous
These two women are ten years apart in age, have different hair colors and styles, different skin tones and different facial features. One wears glasses and the other doesn’t. Literally the only the they have in common appearance-wide is that they are both some shade of Black. To liken them two blonde women, or two men of same age in the same clothes with the same style glasses and facial hair is pretty racist. |
Anonymous
|
Considering that the last names are so similar I just assumed that his phone (it’s a text, right?) when he (or whoever on his team sends the texts) started typing the last name it pops up a suggestion and he kept going.
Hasn’t anyone started typing an email or text and if the last name is close to another one and the autocorrect or whatever assumes the wrong name and you accidentally email or text the wrong person? Yes, it happens to me every now and then (including yesterday). My first thought wasn’t he just think every black woman looks a like. I assumed it was a typo glitch that when they pressed send it was too late to fix. The deep dive into this seems like immediate overkill. |
Anonymous
|
Lucas has actively been trying to increase her twitter following since Youngkin got elected to get a national audience. She was recently heavily criticized for tweeting unprofessionally harsh statements against the press and in her defense of such actions in an interview admitted she has paid NOVA consultants that tweet from her account on her behalf, which is unheard of for a Virginia state Senator.
Basically in between sessions in the hallways of the Virginia Capitol Square a reporter was asking her questions (which is considered completely normal course of legislative business) and and she didn’t want to answer. So she tweeted that this particular reporter rudely harassed her, followed her outside and that if the reporter needs to head to a higher standard if he wants to maintain any credibility with legislatures. Several press groups came to the journalist’s defense and criticized Lucas for overstepping and villainizing the press in its normal course of business and its normal course of conduct. Basically there was no reason to criticize the journalist just because Lucas didn’t feel like answering or didn’t like the questions. In fact Lucas admitted to being angry that any story came out about the incident even though she tweeted about it. The journalist was behaving professionally and has a stellar reputation. Lucas has not apologized. I cannot take anything from that point going forward with any sincerity of motive. She’s paying people (or the consultants admit they do her favors, which is walking a very fine line of accepting a gift) to write and send tweets with a national focus. So then this happens with Youngkin and she decides to blow it up most likely because it can get national attention for her and increase her recognition. Politics as usual. She’s no saint. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/richmond-times-dispatch/20220202/281633898637381 |