Kamala Harris‘ supporters are coming to her defense after her critics accused her of degrading disabled people. The controversy started when the vice president delivered a speech at a roundtable discussion with disability rights activists on Tuesday, MSNBC reports.

Harris tried to accommodate the disabled people in the room, stating her pronouns when she introduced herself and giving a visual description of what she was wearing.

“I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit,” she said.

Harris was later met with backlash from critics such as Sen. Ted Cruz, who viewed her gesture as a mockery.

Harris, however, has many more people who are applauding the way she accommodated the disabled. One Twitter user shared a screenshot of a Facebook post from her mother, who said the vice president did exactly what she was supposed to do.

“You tell people your name, what you do, what your pronouns are, what you look like, what you are wearing,” the mother wrote. “It’s called empathy.”

The mother called out Republicans and Democrats who “tweeted their disgust at the vice president.”

“Who the hell do you think you are?” she wrote. “I know who you are. The people who make life really hard for people with disabilities who work their asses off to be working members of a society who treats them like dirt.”

Several other social media users agreed with the mother.

According to MSNBC, RNC research director Zach Parkinson tried to clarify the criticism against Harris. Parkinson said the critics were making fun of Harris because she “chooses to infantilize the people she’s talking with by announcing her pronouns.”

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