Social media users piled on Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 tweet from Sunday that featured an unmasked Harris posing with a young Black girl wearing a mask.
\nHarris posted the picture from her personal account, along with a comment meant to inspire “Black women and girls everywhere.”
\n“My message to Black women and girls everywhere: Never ask for permission to lead,” Harris tweeted.
\nTwitter users attacked the irony of the choice of the image and quote.
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\n“But she needs to ask permission to breathe freely? GTFO,” defense attorney Marina Medvin commented.
\n“Did you mean \u2018never mask for permission\u2019?” WalkUp Foundation founder Ryan Petty, who lost his daughter in the Parkland, Florida, shooting wrote.
\nConservative Twitter personality Noam Blum remarked, “Interesting that the image description doesn’t mention the girl is masked.”
\nCivil liberties attorney Jenin Younes replied, “Are you serious? You\u2019re muffling a child and think you\u2019re conveying the message that she has the right to lead? You can\u2019t be serious.”
\n“The rage I feel when I see adults without masks and children wearing them is not good for my health,” comedian Bridget Phetasy wrote.
\nDeSantis Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw tweeted, “Kids should not have to ask for permission to show their faces and breathe freely.”
\nWashington Examiner columnist Ian Hayworth joked, “Lead? Your boss is an old rich white guy.”
\nThe photo came from an event that took place on July 2021 where the vice president touted the American Rescue Plan allowing families to receive their first monthly Child Tax Credit relief payments.
\nHarris was previously ripped by Twitter users after appearing maskless at a political event surrounded by masked schoolchildren in Washington D.C. back in April. Harris\u2019 office argued to Fox News Digital at the time that she declined to wear a mask because city guidance stated that masking was optional for both students and staff.
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\nThe vice president, however, violated guidelines just days afterward while presiding over the Senate. Although Harris had been exposed to an infected staffer, she did not wear a mask and was frequently spotted without wearing one on the floor.
\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines at the time recommended that people who received their COVID-19 booster shot and were exposed to COVID wear a mask in public for 10 days. In a statement from the White House, an official insisted that Harris practiced “social distancing” with “limited” and “brief” interactions with others after consulting with a doctor.
\nSeveral other Democratic figures were previously lambasted for posing maskless, sometimes with masked schoolchildren. Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams infamously posed with children in a classroom back in Feb. 2022.<\/p>\n
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