One example I’ve seen is someone talking about being coconut-pilled.
"My mother … would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’ " Harris said with a laugh. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”
That’s actually kinda nice. I can appreciate that. We’re all the middle children of history, in a way.
Yep, it’s her mother explaining Dialectical Materialism to her, her father is a Marxist economist.
Cool story bro
Assuming you mean “why?” not “who?”
Harris gave a speech where she said this:
I guess you needed the context… ;)
So wait … that laugh she has after saying “… coconut tree” … is that her laughing at a joke her mum was making that she and her siblings and fellow younger people are coconuts?
Otherwise, her mum was Southern Indian (Chennai, Tamil Nadu IIRC), and I’d bet coconut trees and phrases about them are pretty common in Southern India and she just has humorous recollections about her mum’s coconut tree phrases (I would if I was raised western with an Indian mum … the word “coconut” probably emphasises the indian accent quite well).
So Kamala is kind-of known for her somewhat awkward/ inappropriate giggle laugh.
I think its kind of a dumb thing to be critical of and both Biden and Trump have far more annoying speech idiosyncrasies. But her giggle laugh has also happened at some weird and inappropriate times.
Oh I’m aware. It’s a dumb thing to be critical of for sure. And my bet would be that originates from her attempt to be more politically amicable while her inner personality is probably a bit more “aggressive” or blunt. And of course she’s navigating the misogynistic politics that force women to find some nearly impossible balance between “being nice” and “appearing competent and strong” at the same time.
All that being said, that laugh was odd and I couldn’t help wonder what it was about … as you imply, it may have just been a gesture of some kind in this political persona she’s deploying.
She said on Drew Barrymore’s show that its her Mom’s laugh.
It is a bit of a tic though. Who cares. She’s 1k better than Biden would have ever been in terms of beating Trump, so its fine.
The most important thing is that she needs to court some demographics. She needs muslim voters in the upper mid-west and she needs black women in GA and NC. If she picks Shapiro, and he can deliver PA, thats the ball game.
I posted this in another thread, but this short video explains the coconut reference.
Basically, it comes from a speech she gave in May 2023 at a White House event about Hispanic excellence. In her speech, she also touched on how the democratic party can better support young leaders by understanding the context they grew up in.
This led into her personal anecdote from her mother, saying:
“My mother, she would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?! (Laughs) You in exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.’”
This basically took off and got mixed up with the whole “pill meme” terminology. Those that wanted Biden to pass the torch to Kamala started saying they were “coconut-pilled” and the rest is history.
Yep, it was a reference to her mother explaining Dialectical Materialism, her father is a Marxist economist.
Bruh the quote is about you being the product of all externalities – your parents, your environment, etc.
Chill with reading too deep.
You gotta really lower your expectations for lemmy.ml
