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Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff face online wave of sexist, racist attacks | Growing number of antisemitic, misogynistic posts reveal far right’s anxieties as Harris’s candidacy solidifies
Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff face online wave of sexist, racist attacks
Growing number of antisemitic, misogynistic posts reveal far right’s anxieties as Harris’s candidacy solidifies
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According to recent analysis published by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (Gpahe), between 19 and 21 July hateful and violent speech towards Harris rose 33% on Truth Social, 292% on Gab, 50% on Telegram and a whopping 525% on 4chan.
The Gpahe analysis made clear that this was a classic playbook from the far right and a revealing aspect of their gender ideology. In 2016, a grassroots and far-right “memetic warfare” movement was weaponized against then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in which gender as a common theme of attack.
Heidi Beirich, an expert on American far-right extremism and a co-founder of Gpahe, said: “Female politicians have been targeted with misogynistic language for years, and usually they are the recipients of far more hate and sexism than male candidates face.”
“Attacks on Harris for her racial background are skyrocketing online,” added Beirich, who gave testimony to the House select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. “As bad as the racism targeting her is, the misogyny seems worse.
“She’s being attacked for supposedly sleeping her way to the top and with horrible sexist slurs. Sadly, this is how it goes nowadays, with racism and hate so prevalent online.”
The Gpahe analysis also pointed out that JD Vance’s wife, Usha Chilukuri, who, like Harris, is of Indian ancestry, was also racially targeted for her ethnic background after giving a speech at the Republican national convention last week.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...avoid-racist-and-sexist-attacks-kamala-harris
Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst who tracks the global far right at the Counter Extremism Project, noticed the same racist anti-Indian content after surveying similar accounts across a broad spectrum of sites in the last week.
“It’s worth mentioning that extreme-right Telegram channels and users posted racist content after JD Vance was chosen to be Trump’s vice-presidential pick,” he said in an email. “The patterns are similar.”
Harris and speculation about her pick for running mate have also become a topic of conspiracy theory, with many on the far right predicting she intends to pick either Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro, or Illinois’s governor, J B Pritzker, who are both Jewish.
“Kamala’s Jewish VP candidate,” reposted one neo-Nazi-adjacent account on Telegram, showing an image of Shapiro, “the Indian-Jew axis is on the ballot.”
But with all of the hatred towards Harris, some on the far right are bemoaning the loss of Biden as an adversary, with one post on Telegram viewed over 11,000 times showing a video of Harris with the caption: “It’s just not the same. Comeback Joe Biden.”