Info to Combat Disinformation (Kamala)

[elle]

Thought we could use a place to gather information that corrects the disinformation being spread via social media. It's clear this election cycle is going to be very ugly. Feel free to add anything you come across that combats the lies being spread about any of the Democratic candidates.

*thread title changed, will be making a thread for each of the candidates as it comes up

[elle]

Posted earlier in the weekly thread, but figured it needs to be here also:

This piece refutes many of the reasons people give for why her record is "so terrible", including this all important part:

Many people, particularly white liberals, have suddenly realized that truancy is one of their top concerns now that they can use it as a weapon against Kamala Harris. Jailing mothers for not sending their kids to school sounds scary, but it never happened under her jurisdiction. Struggling families were given resources, counseling, and warnings before ever being brought in front of any legal authority. Two parents were jailed outside of Kamala’s jurisdiction, and after her tenure as San Francisco D.A., because the students had missed a combined total of over 118 days of schools.

In California’s 2012–2013 school year, 1 million elementary school students were truant and 250,000 elementary school students missed 18 or more school days at a cost of $1.4 billion in lost funds to California school districts. Annually, dropouts cost California taxpayers an estimated $46.4 billion in incarceration, lost productivity and lost taxes. Dropouts comprised two-thirds of prison inmates in California, and 94% of homicide victims in San Francisco under the age of 25 are high school dropouts.

With those facts in mind, Kamala had damn good reason to fight truancy — and she succeeded. Truancy went down over 30%. Her goal was to reduce the school to prison pipeline, and she used the resources she had available to achieve it.

“I wanted to avoid a situation where those children end up being criminalized, some for their entire lifetime, because we failed them in the earliest stages.”

There are no shortage of people decrying that Kamala “locked up black and brown” people, which conveniently leaves out the fact that the number of people sent to prison during her tenure as Attorney General dropped every single year.

[elle]

[athn64]

Kamala is definitely getting majorly targeted right now due to her bump from the debates.

[lemondrop]

This is a great idea. I need to find that article about why Tulsi is the worst.

[Ls2012]

I almost feel like each candidate needs a thread. Otherwise it may feel like too much to sift through to find what we need.

Even the Chad's...so we have the information that dispproves "why they're great" from the typical white male perspective.

[elle]

Jul 3, 2019 15:04:32 GMT -6 Ls2012 said:

I almost feel like each candidate needs a thread. Otherwise it may feel like too much to sift through to find what we need.

Even the Chad's...so we have the information that dispproves "why they're great" from the typical white male perspective.

That's a good idea. I'll go ahead and edit the title to reflect that and make this Kamala's thread. Then as other candidates have disinformation being spread, we can make additional threads.