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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.

This is overblown but what else is new in the Dems race obsessed call everyone a racist mindset. I have friends who are telling their kids to be extra careful around other children who are POC because they are white and they are concerned that a comment will be misinterpreted and their kid will be crucified. Is this really the society we want? I mean I’m sure this is impacting hiring managers as well.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

How did a sane person like you find your way into this thread? I have definitely done this, both in text and email. Embarrassing, but it happens.

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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.

DP. Spare us all. So it's "racist" to confuse two black women, but not at all "racist" to confuse two white people. Got it. See, this is why normal people tune you out.

Anonymous wrote:I don't see any rage in Sen. Lucas's tweet. She's correcting him very politely. After 4 years of rude Trump tweets, Sen. Lucas is the engraged one?

I'm Filipino and get mistaken for the Puerto Rican receptionist all the time (by both black and white people), even though she's shorter, older, larger, has opposite style in clothing, and has very short curly hair compare to my very long straight hair. When people come to me looking for her, I politely tell them she's around the corner. That isn't rage.

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Anonymous wrote: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

Um, this is not about Lucas. It is about a new governor who confused two black women. It’s bad enough he didn’t pay close enough attention (more likely an aide told him who made the speech). But the whole “all black people look alike” thing is at play here too. That’s why it’s bad optics and why Lucas was annoyed.

The only thing is as far as Youngkin’s many mistakes so far goes, this falls into the category of clumsy/casually racist rather than “bad faith policy/illegal/ignorant.” So it’s slightly less egregious but actually more embarrassing.

What a loser Youngkin is. I knew it would be bad but didn’t anticipate this level of incompetence.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a national audience on Youngkin, due to his aggressive change to Trump-like policies and behavior.

Lucas is getting a lot of attention for the VA Senate Democrats doing what they can to stop Youngkin.

We are turning into a joke like Florida.

Youngkin had right wing activists from all over the country showing up at school board meetings to threaten and harrass people...

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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.

You seem confused. She made this nothingburger public because she was enraged with him about something totally unrelated. She's not a nice person and knows nothing about "basic courtesy." Period.

np Again with the "angry Black women" tripe

Anonymous wrote:Maybe he did it on purpose to get under her skin and make her publicly lash out and seem petty. Ever think of that?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a national audience on Youngkin, due to his aggressive change to Trump-like policies and behavior.

Lucas is getting a lot of attention for the VA Senate Democrats doing what they can to stop Youngkin.

We are turning into a joke like Florida.

There is national audience in Youngkin for democrats IMO due to McAulliffe nationalizing the gubernatorial election which was a mistake and it cost him big. I have voted democratic all my life but I hated the way Terry ran his election and the push by Virginia democrats to attach Youngkin to Trump all day everyday. It's not swaying undecided voters; it's not changing people's minds. Lucas is basically gaining followers from her own echo chamber, people who already felt very strongly against anything, ANYTHING, remotely connected to Republicans and are avid watchers of MSNBC. I'm not debating the merits of MSNBC, but all she's doing is getting likeminded people to believe themselves and push away those who are moderate (which honestly covers a lot of Virginians, like me).

Politico did a podcast on this phenomenon, maybe it is worth a listen as I may not be explaining it well.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/05/youngkin-mcauliffe-politics-virginia-strategy-2021-upset-analysis-519622

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Dude, read the article. He intentionally texted Lucas because he thought she gave the speech (since he was distracted by other things and not really paying attention, by his own admission when he apologized). It was only when Lucas texted him back that it was Locke, and not herself, who gave the speech that he realized his error.

Anonymous wrote: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 wrote:Maybe he did it on purpose to get under her skin and make her publicly lash out and seem petty. Ever think of that?

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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.