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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) acknowledged — but did not condemn — white supremacist attacks aimed at his wife, Usha Vance, over her Indian descent on Friday.

“Look, I love my wife so much. I love her because she’s who she is,” former President Donald Trump’s running mate told Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM show.

He continued, “Obviously, she’s not a white person and we’ve been accused — attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha. She’s such a good mom, she’s such a brilliant lawyer and I’m so proud of her.”

Trump’s vice presidential pick, who has faced backlash for going after “childless” Democrats in 2021 with a comment he recently called “sarcastic,” added that his wife’s experience has helped give him the perspective that it’s “very hard” for working families in America.

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[-] odium@programming.dev 190 points 4 months ago

added that his wife’s experience has helped give him the perspective that it’s “very hard” for working families in America.

She's a lawyer who went to Yale. Her father was a mechanical engineer and her mother was a molecular biologist. They are a working family, but not the type of working family that should give you a new perspective on how hard it is for working families in America. This is the opposite of a working family that struggles for financial security.

[-] Kiernian@lemmy.world 84 points 4 months ago

Yes, but they have to keep associating "person of color" with "poor" and therefore "crime". If they don't keep lumping all non-white people in with other "undesirable" things, some of their followers might look around and realize that non-white people can achieve things on their own too, and that makes non-white folks start to resemble actual human beings a bit too much for their liking. If she was single, he wouldn't be lauding any of her achievements. The unspoken belief is that women are as incapable as non-whites when there's no husband involved. The dehumanizing and belittling narrative has to be constant with them or some of their followers might start thinking for themselves.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

We interrupt this thread to point out that Peter Thiel is an Enormous Bag of Shit

[-] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 months ago

Especially for someone whose whole identity is based on growing up as a good ol' Appalachian boy, it's pretty weird to say he's learned much of anything about the struggles of working families from his wife's experiences. Unless --gasp-- perhaps he's exaggerated the experiences of his childhood?

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

If he can find difficulty in his upper-class life, why did he join the party that wants to crush people orders of magnitude poorer than him?

Answer: He's a malicious sociopath and in it entirely for his own enrichment.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Her father was a mechanical engineer and her mother was a molecular biologist.

what, like howard and bernadette?!

[-] Doxatek@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

Mechanical engineer is surely some good money. But from experience there's a big spectrum of pay depending on what her mother specifically did as a molecular biologist. Sounds really intense but biology pays pretty shit sometimes haha. I know molecular biologists with PhDs working for 16 an hour at a nonprofit near me.

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