As a woman running for vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris will inevitably face attacks on her attitude, ethics, and even the tone of her voice, writes Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, in an op-ed in The Atlantic. Voters must undergo the process of trying to hold her accountable without being unfair.
“Many people will want too much, and too much of the wrong things, from Harris, and will hold her to an unattainable standard because of her gender and race,” Manne writes in the piece. “Given her identity, her talents, and the barriers she is breaking, she will be subject to an ugly morass of biases—an embarrassment of misogyny and racism.”
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Full Teaching Professor Brenda Schertz, coordinator of the ASL/Deaf Studies Program in Arts & Sciences’ linguistics department, teaches in Morrill Hall
