Vice President Kamala Harris has been described by critics as a wholly inauthentic and empty suit of a politician who seems to try to appeal to certain audiences and gain their support by attempting to emulate their particular linguistic accents.

Harris is now being accused on social media of adopting a fake Jamaican accent, for no apparent reason, while talking with late-night host Stephen Colbert, according to the Daily Mail.

The Democratic nominee's defenders will say that what Harris is doing is nothing more than "code-switching," a legitimate context-based linguistic phenomenon, while her detractors will call her out for what it really appears to be -- political pandering to earn the votes of specific demographic groups and voting blocs.

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VP Harris appeared this week for an interview on CBS' "The Late Show" with host Colbert and, at one point, seemed to speak briefly with a phony Jamaican accent while discussing some people's lack of "empathy" for the misfortune of others.

"Have you no empathy, man? No. For the, the suffering of other people. Have you no sense of purpose?" Harris said in what sounded like a weak impersonation of famed Reggae artist Bob Marley.

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The comments came on ‘The Late Night’ show with Stephen Colbert.

“Have you no empathy man? No. For the, the suffering of other people. Have you no sense of purpose?” pic.twitter.com/FFfIGxABLX

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 9, 2024

The Daily Mail noted that social media erupted with numerous posts and video clips calling attention to the vice president's apparent attempt to sound Jamaican.

For the record, Harris' father is Jamaican, so she is likely familiar with that particular accent, but it is clearly not her normal mode of speaking and she did not do a good job of emulating it.

The many accents of VP Harris

This is not the first time that VP Harris has appeared to adopt a fake accent, per the Daily Mail, but instead is something that she has been accused of doing on a fairly routine basis.

Recently, while addressing predominately black union workers in Detroit, Michigan, Harris spoke with an obvious urban black accent that was then dropped later in the day when she delivered virtually the same speech to mostly white union workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

On another occasion, the Democratic candidate sounded like a black southern preacher while speaking at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia -- which comes across as unnatural for somebody who grew up in San Francisco, California, and Montreal, Canada.

Some video clips appear to show Harris at times adopting a slight Indian accent or speaking with a more formal enunciation of her words while dealing with predominately white crowds.

What is "code-switching"?

VP Harris' defenders will say that what she is doing is a perfectly normal and accepted thing known as "code-switching," which in this case is defined as "the use of one dialect, register, accent, or language variety over another, depending on social or cultural context, to project a specific identity," with the given example being: "Politicians use code-switching on the campaign trail to connect with their audience."

According to The Week, there are plenty of legitimate reasons why people can or even should code-switch to better fit in with others, and sometimes it even occurs involuntarily for some people, but with Harris and other ambitious politicians like her, it just rings hollow as inauthentic and phony pandering for votes and is worthy of being mocked incessantly.