Kamala Harris and the “Competence Downshift” – IOTW Report

Kamala Harris and the “Competence Downshift”

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Back in 2019, a study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that white liberals deploy what the researchers described as a “patronizing competence downshift” when talking to black people.

In short, white liberals either deliberately or unconsciously dumb down their language when they are talking to minorities.

White conservatives, however, don’t feel the need to employ this “competence downshift.” They talk the same way regardless of skin color.

The study also showed Democrat politicians use fewer words related to competence when speaking to black audiences than they do when speaking to white audiences. Conservative politicians, on the other hand, don’t.

The other day, I heard a painful clip from Kamala Harris that instantly made me think of this “competence downshift” study from 2019.

Earlier this week, Kamala did an interview on a black-centered radio show called “The Morning Hustle” where she confirmed that, just like white liberals, she thinks she has to talk to black people like they’re children.

24 Comments on Kamala Harris and the “Competence Downshift”

  1. As a Jamindian obliviot she doesn’t see herself as “black” and thinks she’s the smartest person in the room (sorry Hunter); no humility. So carries the “low expectations” with her.

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  2. KAMALA HARRIS EMBODIES EVERYTHING I DESPISE ABOUT THE LEFT:

    DUMB YET ARROGANT

    ENTHRONED BECAUSE OF GENDER AND RACE, NOT CAPABILITY

    DOPE SMOKING, DICK SUCKING OPPORTUNIST

    AMERICA-HATING

    “I DESERVE THIS” SENSE OF PRIVILEGE

    CORRUPT. LYING. SACK OF USELESS SHIT

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  3. From ebonics, to dumbing down test scores, to affirmative action, to CRT, to accepting crime and idiots walking around with their pants around their ankles, what else can you take away but that blacks are inferior?

    That is not me saying it, that is exactly what their ideology confers.

    This shit will continue as long as blacks vote in lockstep with the democrat party.
    They will continue to be condescended to and taken advantage of.
    Dem cities will continue to be shitholes where blacks live like vermin and kill each other.
    Conservatives see this, point this out and yet noting changes.
    SMDH…

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  4. When she downshifts, her mouth opening goes from 2″ to 3″.

    You know, like going from her casual cackle to her hysterical laughter where her pie hole is big enough to swallow a baseball bat.

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  5. I have nieces that are teachers.
    They do the same thing when they talk to Adults.
    My sister in law was an early childhood educator who also speaks the same way.
    All leftie libs.
    I have called them out on it many times. They can’t help it.

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  6. Kcir, you have to raise your eyebrows and call them sweetie.

    “Oh, sweetie, don’t try to use big words to impress me, be yourself”…..is what I said to one of my kids kindergarten teachers once.

    Try it on your nieces. Something interesting is bound to happen.

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  7. Kcir, I worked in bars and restaurants for years and years. There is nothing, nothing more infuriating for a woman than to be called sweetie. It’s not even a gender thing. It’s a condescension thing.

    “Oh….sweetie, when you get a little older, polysyllabic words will come a lil’ easier to you.”

    Doesn’t matter what she says in response because you follow up by calling her buttercup and asking if she wants ice cream and if she wants to ride the mechanical horsie in front of the drug store.

    It’s lots of fun.

    Like when a fat woman looks at you mean and you act all innocent and say “What. I don’t have a sammich.”

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  8. Listening to that stupid cunt and her deballed son bitching about Ron DiSantis not enforcing pointless mask mandates makes me think the reason democrats treat black democrats like stupid children is because that’s exactly what many of them are.

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