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It's that time again. The Beltway doing what they do best - chastising any Democratic voters who have any hope (they never ever do that with Republicans).

And the New Yorker, which I believe had the infamous cover of "black power" Michelle and Barack Obama, dishes out an incredibly degrading cover to humiliate the Democrats.

They're already doing their best to engineer a backlash against the party - they must be very upset.

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It's not working. And I don't actually think that Kamala cover was meant to be degrading, but it is definitely tacky and stupid.

Fox News' The Five is taking the rise of Harris well - note the one woman who tries to speak sense. You can tell the men are worried.

 

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for the record, that’s new york magazine, not the new yorker. 

here’s the new yorker’s current cover:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine

 

re trump’s ‘won’t have to vote’ comment: there’s was a time when something like that would have been met with a 40-point headline and editorials from major publications expressing outrage. 

instead: 

 

To the Editor:

Trump Tells Christians, Vote ‘Just This Time’” (news article, July 29) contained critical information about the threat that Donald Trump poses to our democracy.

Mr. Trump’s quoted statement was an admission that his plan is to subvert the democratic process and lead our country into authoritarianism: “Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore, you know what? Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”

The reporting was clear, concise and easy for any reader to understand. Unfortunately, this article was buried on Page A15 of your newspaper.

Can I ask, What is more important for a free press to publish on the front page than this direct and clear attack on our democracy by one of our two presidential candidates?

Robin Perls-Shultis
Shokan, N.Y.

 

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It’s definitely degrading in the context in which they have chosen to present this. Anyone who knows the history of how Brown people from islands and the children of Brown people from islands were derisively called coconuts, knows this. I refuse to believe that a periodical as old as New York Magazine would be totally ignorant of this, particularly when they brand themselves as knowledgeable of what goes on globally. And notice the mostly Brown people at the base of the coconut. They know what they’re doing. Just like they knew what they were doing with the Obamas caricature.

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@janea4oldand @wonderwoman1951. I made the correction to my post.
 

Although The New Yorker has had its moments of ableism and mocking disguised as satire, they can’t take the blame this time around. 
I don’t want the point to get lost about why people would be angry about such a cover .These folks know exactly what they’re doing. Maybe people who haven’t lived it won’t understand.

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