This is just spectacular. I’m not sure whether I love it or whether I hate it. So there’s a BuzzFeed reporter, her name is Katherine Miller, and she was tweeting about the 2020 Democratic presidential debate. She tweeted out, quote:
MILLER: Hard to know if last night harmed or helped Warren, but I think we can all come together and agree a debate highlight was Warren telling Kamala Harris no about banning Trump from Twitter and then continuing with her point in the manner of shrugging off a Greenpeace clipboard person.
So that is what Miller tweeted – and by the way, she’s right. It was hilarious. Kamala Harris was so desperate for attention, I mean that the entire debate she was just like, “Love me! Why won’t you pay attention to me!? Twitter!”
[The fact that] she thought that her best hit on Elizabeth Warren was not, “You called yourself a Native American for 30 years on official forums.” Her best attack, instead, was, “Why won’t you ban Trump from Twitter, man?” Kamala Harris is very bad.
So Kamala Harris’s [campaign aide then sends this insane note to] … Ben Smith, I guess, the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed.
AIDE: Hey, I have talked to her directly a few times when she’s tweeted out stuff like this and I told her I was glad she deleted it…
So [Miller] deleted the tweet. There’s nothing inappropriate about the tweet.
AIDE: But this kind of stuff is just really a horrible look for you guys. Frankly, it’s whiteness manifest.
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