Does Pandering Ever Work?
What makes you feel like a white politician is trying to represent you and what makes you feel like they’re pandering?
Hillary Clinton was recently criticized for a post on her official website, "7 things Hillary Clinton has in common with your abuela," (that is, your grandmother). Many Latinos on social media rejected this attempt at pandering, starting a hashtag #NotMyAbuela.
So, what makes an effort seem genuine and what makes it seem icky? Keep the conversation going on Twitter at @BrianLehrer.
.@BrianLehrer As a black man, Even if @HillaryClinton were a black woman, I'd still see he Kwanza & LatinaGrandma play as pure pandering😑
— Brandon Garrison (@PaintPenclPaper) December 30, 2015
@brianlehrer It's obnoxious for Clinton to liken herself to not just a Latino's family member but usually the matriarch.
— Achiro Hero (@AchiroHero) December 30, 2015
@BrianLehrer Pols truly are damned if they do, damned if they don't - except when Trump and others on the right spew venom to wild applause.
— Virginia Rietz (@ginzinger) December 30, 2015
.@BrianLehrer @WNYC: Politicians need to earn their #streetcred with any special interest group before they can "get cute" with that group.
— Professor Taxi (@prof_taxi) December 30, 2015
