The former Trump official joins a group of Republicans who have referred to the vice president as a diversity hire

Newsmax personality and former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka described Vice President Kamala Harris a “DEI hire” and “colored” in an interview on Tuesday.

In the segment, Gorka, himself accused of inflating his credentials as a terrorism expert, predicted that Biden will be forced to withdraw from the presidential race if major Democratic donors “pull the plug.”

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    Is this the same Seb Gorka who called himself “Doctor” and the magabrained never said anything, then went on to have fainting spells when Jill Biden was called “Doctor”?

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    You ever seen someone who just wants to scream the N word? I can feel the n word circling his body like it’s a pee just pushing at the ancient prostate you know?

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      I’ve never seen cishet written before and I’m here trying to pronounce it… Maybe it’s pronounced “cishay” like French? I figured it out in the end.

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      As long as DEI, Affirmative Action, positive discrimination, w/e state encouraged discrimination is called nowadays exists, people will always question whether someone is there on merit or if they’re here to fill a quota.

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              Bigots will use it, sure. Other people too.

              Simply put DEI is racism and nothing good ever comes out of racism. It’s a piss poor solution. A band aid on a cancer tumor.

              Equality begins at birth. Education, healthcare, welfare, etc. should all be free and available to everyone. This is how you beat discrimination.

              When you’re a diversity hire, your talents and work will always be scrutinized harder than anyone else’s. Are you here because of your skills, or because you have the proper skin color and gender to fill the quota? It’s a struggle you will always deal with whether you like it or not.

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                I think provisional measures (“bandaid” solutions) should always come with an “until ____ is passed”. Because yes, it shouldn’t be how we have to do things. But while there isn’t the political will to do/get the thing that would actually help the situation, something needs to be done to mitigate the harm that already exists. For example, I don’t want to have to drink water from a dirty stream. That shouldn’t be the standard. But if I find myself in a situation where it’s that or to die of dehydration… restricting/denying the Band-Aid is essentially condemning them to the original harm

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                  The problem with band aid solutions is that the actual necessary measures never happen because “well we put a band aid on it so it’s ok.”

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                Equality begins at birth. Education, healthcare, welfare, etc. should all be free and available to everyone. This is how you beat discrimination.

                You should have probably lead with that. You got downvoted because you sounded like another right-wing dei basher imo.

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    Despite my general pacifism, I think this sort of person is best judged by the theoretical punch-ability of their face. Gorka is “I’m gonna need a baseball bat” level.

    The good news is that not even the Trumpkins like him.

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    We’re supposed to give a shit what racist Count Olaf from Lemony Snicket’s thinks!?

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    He may be wrong in his motives and his word choice but he’s right that the fact that she’s black and a woman was just as important as her credentials when she was picked as the VP candidate in 2020. If you don’t believe that just go read the post primary articles from that year talking about how Biden needed to pick someone not white as his running mate to pull in minority votes. Obviously this doesn’t mean she isn’t also qualified but you’re kidding yourself if you don’t acknowledge the reality that her skin color and gender were both primary factors in her selection. I’m not sure why that’s so difficult for people to say out loud.

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      Because without context it comes across as racist.

      Which is exactly what these people are being when they are saying that she is a diversity hire. Basically that she was only hired because she is black/indian, and a woman, not because she is qualified.

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        He’s definitely saying it for racist reasons it just seems odd to me that people usually push back on that by saying race had nothing to do with it. It obviously did it’s just not the only factor like he’s saying it is.

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          Well there are idiots in this world. So I’m sure there are some idiots saying things like this. But most people also understand that she was qualified for the position.

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        Republicans worship the concept of meritocracy as long as the discussion is only about white people and not about billionaires or minorities…

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    Gorka much prefers nepotistic hires, like the kind you find in the governments of China, Russia and Trump’s cabinet.

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    Colored

    And somehow I’m not surprised that a crusty old racist just straight up used a Jim Crow era descriptor to refer to the VPOTUS…

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    What kind of non-Aryan name is Gorka? I don’t think that this guy is white enough in name, and certainly not in looks, to start popping off on ethnicity and race.

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    Of course she was a DEI hire, just like KJP, or is there anybody that thinks she was really the best person for the job? And Kamala was put in charge of the border early on. Look how that turned out.