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Pam B's avatar

Remember how everyone was like "Free Melania!" and "Welcome to the Resistance, Melania!" when a few cracks appeared in Melania's veneer? And then it became clear that no, Melania was perfectly happy to grift along with her husband and do as little work as FLOTUS as she could?

That's how I feel about Ballerina Farm. She may have been pressured into it, but she got the fame she always wanted: beauty queen titles, social media fame and an actual business that she is the face of, if not the actual power. Of course, her husband benefits the most (just like Trump), but that's the power structure she wants to uphold. Who cares if she's in bed with exhaustion because she has no childcare, except when her husband wants date night? Who cares if she's outsourcing homeschooling, in a room that was supposed to be her dance studio? She'll be happy with her egg apron, or else.

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Myriam Abla's avatar

I feel like the attachment parenting philosophy is more so built on the American ethos of glorifying self-sufficiency than copying what people did in the good old days. People have always either been outsourcing childcare duties (if they could afford it) or relying on their broader community to do their part in watching and disciplining kids. While I'm impressed with people who pull off the whole homesteading/homeschooling/DIY everything thing, I don't think this approach will uniquely guarantee that your kids will turn out right or anything like that. There are risks just like with every approach.

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Human Being's avatar

Side note: what’s so hard for Joey to understand about Kamala being mixed? We know who her parents are and she looks like both of them. There are plenty of people with mixed Indian and Black Caribbean ancestry, so much so that it’s quite common in many Caribbean countries (another famous example: Nicki Minaj). Just because she was raised with Indian and Jamaican culture, doesn’t negate her black heritage. There is not one black culture or one way to be black. It’s honestly ridiculous.

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Cartoons Hate Her's avatar

Oh I think he definitely understands it, he’s just a bad faith race baiter

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Alex J.'s avatar

What you're saying is all true, but I would add that Harris is not the descendant of American slaves. That matters for considerations of (metaphorical) national original sin.

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