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On 01 Sep 2023, Murph <nowomr@protonmail.com> posted some

Kamala Harris is a stinking whore.

We already knew Vice President Kamala Harris is a cheap-shot artist.
Now we also know she’s a coward.

She is a coward because she refuses to debate an issue that she
herself, quite dishonestly, turned into a national line of attack.

It was Harris more than anyone else who catalyzed the most recent
national media frenzy against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), alleging
that educational standards he implemented in Florida taught that
“enslaved people benefited from slavery.” We have shown multiple
times in these pages that the claim is a malicious lie. Harris and
her mendacious chorus took a single sentence completely out of
context.

The sentence not only doesn’t say what they claim it does, but it is remarkably similar to sentences used in documents from sources of
which the Left itself approves, such as the Library of Congress, the
National Park Service, the National Humanities Center — and, we now
know, the very Advanced Placement standards for African American
history that the Left has spent months insisting should be used in
Florida.

In context, there is no way anyone could honestly claim that the
Florida standards are in any way meant to suggest that slavery had
an even mildly sunny side. Instead, the standards repeatedly
emphasize the awful legacy of “slavery, racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination.” That is as to be expected, considering that the parts of the standards at issue were adopted by
a panel led by black scholars about whom it makes zero sense to make
the accusation that they somehow believe slavery was beneficial.

And when black scholars write standards for black history and
explain exactly why they chose the language they did, with both the
language itself and their explanation directly rejecting the false interpretation Harris assigned to them, it takes outrageous gall for
Harris to insist they meant the very opposite of what they said.

Either way, if Harris really believes the claptrap she continues to
spew about the standards created by DeSantis’s committee, she should
have the decency and gumption to make her case when challenged on
it. DeSantis, who can show by overwhelming evidence that the
standards neither say nor mean what Harris claims they do,
challenged Harris to a debate on the topic. Knowing she has no
honest case, Harris instead scurried into hiding while saying she
would not debate the topic of slavery with DeSantis or anyone else.

But DeSantis didn’t say slavery was debatable. He said his state’s curriculum was debatable because Harris herself had smeared it.

Now we, unlike Harris, can be fair by acknowledging there are shards
of arguments Harris might justifiably make. If she wants to argue
that one or two of DeSantis’s committee appointees may not have been superlative, that’s fine. If she wants to question the accuracy of
some of the board members’ scholarship, that’s fine. If she even
wants to argue, through otherwise tendentious ideological lenses,
that “there’s a lot missing” from the standards that should be
there, well, have at it. Those three arguments at least have
peripheral bearing on the worthiness of the standards.

Harris, though, won’t even do that. To make those arguments one-on-
one with DeSantis would just expose how tangential they are to the
main subject, which is her demonstrably dishonest claim that the
standards and the curriculum somehow make excuses for slavery. By
refusing to debate, Harris essentially acknowledges that her attack
was a form of political drive-by shooting, not a serious or rational
engagement in philosophical combat.

Harris committed calumny against DeSantis here, with no regard for
truth. Her attacks were catnip for the liberal media but entirely
meretricious. With this shameful combination of prevarication and pusillanimity, she confirms her reputation as a political figure
worthy only of disdain.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/when- challenged-on-her-lies-kamala-harris-slinks-away

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