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

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Mistakes happen, he apologized, this makes the woke police look worst

I'm one of two Indian women in my office and get confused for the other one (15 years younger, and at least 50lbs heavier than me) ALL THE TIME. It makes me really, really angry. I bet that has never happened to you before.

+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.

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.

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.

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I wonder if stories like this, where the suggestion of racism is maybe plausible, but factually is certainly not an active act of racism, are playing in favor of the Rs going in to the midterms. They just don’t seem that concerned.

We're not. Because normal, moderate, *rational* people see this as a common mistake - people confuse people all the time, regardless of race. I'm white and was constantly confused with another girl in college. I know a few women who, to me, look exactly alike and I can never remember their names. They're all white. Does this make me a racist, or a normal person? This type of nonsense is going to backfire bigly on the Dems, as it should. LWNJ gotcha moments are not going to work in your favor.

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.

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?

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Anonymous wrote:Louise Lucas sounds like a real ahole. Between trolling Youngkin from the start on Twitter, and deciding to make this mistake public, it's clear she is not a nice person.

Youngkin apologized to her, yet she still felt the need to go public. Just like the OP, who felt the need to start a stupid thread on this nonsense. Grow up.

Yeah, doesn’t everyone know all Black people look the same?

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Anonymous wrote:So?

I wonder if stories like this, where the suggestion of racism is maybe plausible, but factually is certainly not an active act of racism, are playing in favor of the Rs going in to the midterms. They just don’t seem that concerned.

We're not. Because normal, moderate, *rational* people see this as a common mistake - people confuse people all the time, regardless of race. I'm white and was constantly confused with another girl in college. I know a few women who, to me, look exactly alike and I can never remember their names. They're all white. Does this make me a racist, or a normal person? This type of nonsense is going to backfire bigly on the Dems, as it should. LWNJ gotcha moments are not going to work in your favor.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:That woman has already started 2 scandals about Youngkin in this first month in office. This is the third. She hates him.

She was planning to keep it private until Youngkin decided to berate Democrats for not confirming Wheeler. Apparently they exist for the sole purpose of rubber stamping whatever Youngkin wants, and really need to know their place.

DP. Ah, so she's retaliating against him for something totally unrelated. She sure is a winner.

Keeping it private was a courtesy to Youngkin. It would have been nice if Youngkin could have shown basic courtesy back. But apparently you don’t hold white wen to the same standard of decorum as you do black women. Figures.

Exactly.

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.

Both their last names start with "L". Who the hell cares.

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Anonymous wrote:Mistakes happen, he apologized, this makes the woke police look worst

I'm one of two Indian women in my office and get confused for the other one (15 years younger, and at least 50lbs heavier than me) ALL THE TIME. It makes me really, really angry. I bet that has never happened to you before.

+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.

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.

Yep. My husband looks like all the other dads in the neighborhood, with their Covid beards.

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Anonymous wrote:Mistakes happen, he apologized, this makes the woke police look worst

I'm one of two Indian women in my office and get confused for the other one (15 years younger, and at least 50lbs heavier than me) ALL THE TIME. It makes me really, really angry. I bet that has never happened to you before.

+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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Mistakes happen, he apologized, this makes the woke police look worst

I'm one of two Indian women in my office and get confused for the other one (15 years younger, and at least 50lbs heavier than me) ALL THE TIME. It makes me really, really angry. I bet that has never happened to you before.

+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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Mistakes happen, he apologized, this makes the woke police look worst

I'm one of two Indian women in my office and get confused for the other one (15 years younger, and at least 50lbs heavier than me) ALL THE TIME. It makes me really, really angry. I bet that has never happened to you before.

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

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Anonymous wrote:Mistakes happen, he apologized, this makes the woke police look worst

I'm one of two Indian women in my office and get confused for the other one (15 years younger, and at least 50lbs heavier than me) ALL THE TIME. It makes me really, really angry. I bet that has never happened to you before.

+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.

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Anonymous wrote:That woman has already started 2 scandals about Youngkin in this first month in office. This is the third. She hates him.

Takes two to tango. Youngkin keeps screwing up and giving her ammunition. Maybe if Youngkin weren't such an a-hole he wouldn't have a problem.

I never said they were legitimate scandal. As I recall she screeched that Youngkin's AG fired his entire civil rights division on day one. Didn't happen. No apology from her though.

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.