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For all of white conservatives’ fake belly-aching over DEI, they tell on themselves when they attack non-white people, usually Black women, whose professional and educational resumes indicate that they’ve gotten where they are based on merit. They tell on themselves when they shout “DEI hire” at Black people who are holding elected offices or appointed positions that are not attached to any DEI programs. They tell on themselves when they assume a professional woman, usually a Black woman, got where she is because of who she slept with, not because of her education and competence.

And white people have been telling on themselves constantly since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Harris isn’t even the official nominee yet, but after President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race and endorsed his VP, it took less than 24 hours for Bigots R Us Americans to launch an endless social media tirade against her, calling her a “DEI hire”—which she was already being called before Biden dropped out. Almost worse than the false and insulting remark, these people are taking shots at her intelligence generally and making remarks about the 59-year-old’s supposed sexual promiscuity and how it got her where she is today.

This is where ex-Fox News host Megyn Kelly comes in.

It started when right-wing bobblehead Matt Walsh became probably the thousandth mediocre white man to claim Harris slept her way to the top, a narrative that appears to be based solely on a brief relationship she had in the 1990s with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown.

“Kamala Harris got her start in politics by sleeping with Willie Brown,” Walsh tweeted. “She became Vice President because Biden needed a non-white female on the ticket. Now she likely becomes the Democratic nominee for president because the guy at the top of the ticket has dementia. She’s made a career out of begging for hand outs from powerful men. A thoroughly unimpressive human being.”

Author and journalist Dr. Naomi Wolf responded to Walsh by noting that MAGA America is shooting itself in the foot by defaulting to racist and sexist attacks now that it’s looking like Trump will be up against Harris instead of Biden.

“This kind of sexist take from Republican men will not play well,” Wolf wrote. “Swing voters who are women are up for grabs, the Trump/Vance ticket needs them, and ‘she slept her way to the top’ just repels many women and is not an argument.”

In comes Kelly, who co-signed Walsh’s white, patriarchal and fragile nonsense by responding to Wolf, tweeting,

“Disagree. She actually did sleep her way into and upwards in California politics and most women (and men) may learn that and see it for what it is: evidence of an unqualified political aspirant getting ahead based on smthg other than merit. It’s relevant, and fair game.”

First and foremost, it’s worth noting that Kelly didn’t actually voice a disagreement, nor did she cite any “evidence” of anything. “Disagree” implies it’s an opinion that Harris “Slept her way to the top,” and not speculation based on noting substantiative outside of the fact that she once dated a mayor. All Kelly actually did was pile her own sexism on top of Walsh’s sexism and the mountain of sexism already leveled at the VP by MAGAts all over social media. And it’s odd considering how much Kelly has whined about the sexism she has received in the past, particularly, by Trump, who she, herself, called sexist after he referenced her menstrual cycle while complaining about interview questions he was asked by her in 2015. This isn’t the only time Kelly has cried about the sexism she received during her career.

Kelly must have also forgotten that, not too long ago, she very publicly complained about how “demeaning” it was that she was made to do the “twirl” while “performing” for late Fox News CEO Roger Ailes when she was a young, up and coming journalist working her way up the ladder in her field. She talked about how she regrets not having the courage to reject Ailes unwanted sexual advances, and if she were a smarter person than she is, she would have anticipated that it would be thrown back in her face now that she’s claimed Harris’ consensual relationship with Brown was an example of the same moral and ethical impropriety.

Seriously, what did she expect?

It was also noted that Kelly has also complained about insinuations that she had slept her way to the top.

Maybe the problem is Kelly needs Harris to be a white woman in order to make the connection with her own past struggles in a professional environment historically dominated by white men. She wouldn’t, after all, be the first white feminist to fail at intersectionality. And her attacks on a Black woman certainly wouldn’t be surprising coming from the demonstrable racist who has vehemently defended blackface, stated emphatically that Jesus and Santa Clause should only be depicted as white, cosigned a social media post referring to Michelle Obama as “Obama’s Baby Mama,” and constantly goes out of her way to downplay or outright deny racism no matter how blatant it is.

At the end of the day, Kamala Harris has served as the District Attorney of San Francisco. She has served as the Attorney General of California. She has served as a U.S. senator. She has served as the vice president of the United States. The idea that she achieved all of that by sleeping with some mayor a full decade before running for any office is absurd. Meanwhile, Donald Trump had zero experience in politics or law before being elected to the highest political office in America, and the p**sy-grabber-in-chief is rumored and/or proven to have cheated on every single woman he has ever married.

So, you know, maybe Kelly, Walsh and their ilk are just racist and sexist. Maybe it’s really that simple.

See how social media is roasting her comments below.