Hopefully the mods are okay with a little journalism about journalism so that people know where Politico stands in terms of being a trustworthy source.

The headline in question:

‘Next question’: Harris evades questions about her identity

The background to the headline is from Harris’ recent CNN interview:

“I want to ask you about your opponent, Donald Trump,” Bash said to Harris. “I was a little bit surprised. People might be surprised to hear that you have never interacted with him, met him face-to-face. That’s gonna change soon. But what I wanna ask you about is what he said last month. He suggested that you ‘happened’ to turn Black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity.”

“Same old, tired playbook,” Harris replied. “Next question, please.”

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    Bash said: "But what I wanna ask you about is what he said last month. He suggested that you ‘happened’ to turn Black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity.”

    Where was the question? That’s simply a statement about what Trump said.

    Politico’s headline is outrageous, but what was Bash even trying to do here? Because it reads like she was trying to ask (without asking) if Harris is black, which is just as weird and absurd as Trump’s original comment.

    Harris’s reply is great because it applies both to Trump’s racism and the problem with journalists giving these comments anything more than ridicule.

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      This is a horrible take. Bash lobbed this question in as a total softball. Dana is an excellent interviewer and she deliberately framed the question this way so as to allow Harris to be free to frame it with her response; instead of trapping Harris with a strongly premised question.

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      Where was the question? That’s simply a statement about what Trump said.

      All of Dana Bash’s questions were just Donald Trump talking points.

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    That seemed like the entirely right answer. It was a bullshit question that didn’t need dignified with a response.

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      The Harris campaign has consistently handled Trump with a deftness and results-oriented system that we haven’t seen from anyone else. It’s impressive in both its success and its consistency.

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    The article is fine, tbh, it’s just talking about how Harris is putting less emphasis on the historic nature of her candidacy versus Clinton in 2016. The headline was hot garbage though, just trying to bait those rage-clicks (which obviously worked).

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      Did it? I didn’t bother with the article, and only shared a screenshot of a post about the headline.

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      Trump is gonna bomb people AND run the Project 2025 playbook while being the same idiot president he was last time, so what’s your point?

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      Yeah, instead we should put troops on the ground and invade the West Bank with our own soldiers and start bombing kindergartens directly! Hooyah, second Trump Presidency here we go! /s

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    These corporate media companies are all the same and are a blight upon our society.

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    Acting like there’s any legitimate questions about Harris being a black person is inherently racist and doing the bidding of Trump. I didn’t think very highly of Politico before this but unless they fire whoever wrote that headline they are dead to me now.

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      …she’s half caribbean and half south-asian…

      …is that black?..that’s on you…
      …does it matter?..that’s on you, too…

      …any issue says more about the person asking the questions than it does about the candidate; what i think is noteworthy is that nobody’s talking about her gender, a fact which constitutes a substantial milestone for cultural progress…

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    so that people know where Politico stands in terms of being a trustworthy source

    I just assume all media actually want a Trump victory, because they get money writing articles and the money was good his first term. If Trump is good at anything, it’s making headlines.

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    HOLY SHIT. This is a much bigger deal than people realize. Politico is suggesting that her identity is in question to begin with. It’s not.

    She didn’t evade a question about her identity because there is no question about her identity. She passed an opportunity to get upset over Trump’s comments.

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      I immediately thought that they were questioning her gender identity when I saw the post title. 😅

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        At least with the birther shit, there was a question of whether Obama should just put the question to rest or ignore it.

        This is literally just an insult for her being multiracial. And Politico is asking if she’s hiding something.

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          Even pro obama people got gaslit by how hard they tried to sell the lie. The question was always “put to rest”, his birth certificate was already released, birthers were demanding a document that was the first result in a google search of said document.

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            I just looked up something birther related and the second result was a legit looking site that just had a ton of misinformation posted in 2016.

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      yeah this is like saying “next question” when someone asks you if you’re an extraterrestrial lizard and then politico saying you “avoid questions about extraterrestrial origins”.

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        Any picture of her face, on any campaign poster in any of her campaigns, shows her Black heritage. She doesn’t have to say anything about it, it’s obvious. And Harris is a common Black name. Her Asian heritage is not as apparent, so it bears mentioning. I might also mention that the Asian and Black communities have a history of discomfort with each other, so being obviously Black could have caused some Asian people who didn’t know her full heritage to vote for the white male Republican rather than a Black person. Black people have more experience with mixed-race heritage. Being a savvy politician, knowing how to approach different people, is a positive thing.

        But she’s always run on her own capability. It’s others who tout or disparage her racial experience.

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          What discomfort between Black and Asian ( esp. Indian Asian ?? ) that doesn’t exist at all. Chinese / Japanese communities may or may not have issues with Black communities, but Indians have emigrated to Africa and elsewhere without any issues with Black communities.

          Not all Asian or Black communities are the same.

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      Just changing the word"evades" to “deflects” would have made all the difference in the world.

      Not a Kamala fan, but her response seemed totally appropriate.

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    How is plainly calling it out as the bullshit that it is “evasion?” That headline isn’t just misleading; it’s a straight-up lie.

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      They asked for her reaction to Trump being extremely racist.

      Politico - “Okay but what if Trump is right?”

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    Keep in mind race is very important to conservatives. VERY IMPORTANT. to them, once an association is made … It can not be changed. And you can’t be 2 races at once. its very important to them and they have lots of rules about it.

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      the tweet Politico sent to promote it was incredibly misleading and stated Harris had dodged a question about herself.

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    Multi race people are use to this shit. We are denied one race or another. If you don’t look how people expect you will receive racist shit about both races, really fun.

    I have many issues with Harris, but I’m glad she is exposing this shit. I’m tired of closet and undercover racists.

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      Legally no. Practically yes. Lots of newspapers are throwing themselves out the window this election. They don’t realize it yet, though.