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I had trouble with the pronunciation. I wouldn't throw Trump in a septic tank to put him out if he were on fire. The world is bigger than stereotypes and worst

• yawpitch 2y ago
  The problem, in this case, is that there’s a group of people intentionally mispronouncing the second black (de facto) nominee’s name, and that this is precisely the same group that, again intentionally, mispronounced the only first black nominee’s name… in this case said group also backs the candidate that both intentionally mispronounced both names and also implied both nominees were illegitimate because of their “exotic” names. The correct pronunciation of both names is, and always was, trivial to a native-English speaker. Both candidates repeat their names a lot and so everyone could eliminate whatever confusion they initially have by going, again trivially, to the primary source. I’m happy for everyone to be interested in the ways that the written name could be pronounced, but the answer to the question “why [is it] so hard to pronounce Kamala” is “it isn’t, unless you want it to be”. BTW, I never said you were a Trump supporter, I merely pointed out that Trump supporters are the main occupants of the Venn diagram overlap between native English speakers and people who continue to experience trouble pronouncing her name once they’ve heard it correctly pronounced once.
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