Pete Buttigieg is subjected to purity tests constantly. They’re just different from Kamala’s.
“From the minute he launched his campaign, Mayor Pete was blessed with glowing headlines and coverage.”
Even Out Magazine disses Pete for not being gay enough (one such purity test). Pete, just like everyone else, has a mix of good and bad headlines.
“He has been excused for almost all his mistakes”
Only by some. Even his South Bend supporters hold him to a high standard and work with him to make their city better. What’s great about Pete is that he acknowledges mistakes (who in this world is infallible?), learns from them, and applies this new knowledge. He surrounds himself with capable staff, as any good president would do.
“fawned over by a wretched media establishment”
CNN and MSNBC at the very least have mixed remarks about Pete. There is no fawning. In fact, the likes of Dr. Jason Johnson give people whiplash from his pos-neg-pos-neg alternating takes on Pete. Pundits’ opinions change as often as the tide.
“he defends Chik-fil-A”
Pete literally said “I don’t approve of their politics but I kind of approve of their chicken” (Breakfast Club interview)
I can’t speak to the % of attacks per candidate on Twitter, but Pete and his supporters are subjected to it on an hourly basis when all we do, for the most part at least, is elevate our candidate. (There are always some bad apples in every bunch, in every corner of Politics Twitter.) In fact, trying to tell apart Russian trolls from supporters of some other candidates in their barrage of attacks against Pete has become a rather impossible task.
As for media coverage, I’m just going to leave this here:

I completely agree that America (that is, White America) has a race problem. There is not only systemic racism in socioeconomic establishments, but inherent racism in the general white populous. Is that why most top-percentage-grabbing candidates are white? Possibly. The other reason is name recognition.

This image is from June 2019. I do believe Harris, who I personally have known about for years, is in the top 5 with Cory Booker.
I would be happy to vote for any Democratic candidate. Years ago I thought to myself, when learning about Harris, that she’d make a good president. But for me personally, it’s her history that I don’t care for and why I’m not backing her for president in this primary. Same for Booker. Same for Warren (whose present as well as history concern me.) Same for Biden and Sanders…
For me, it is literally not about the concentration of melanin the candidate has in their skin. Is that the reason overall? Maybe. Possibly. But, just as some supporters of Pete have cried “everyone who doesn’t like him is homophobic!” this stance is crying “people don’t like Kamala because they’re racist!” It’s the same argument, different problem.
I too sincerely hope attacks on Harris stop, just as I hope this for all candidates. I literally want the truth and only the truth, not some random pundit’s opinion that will change in a few days, or a pundit’s opinion that is based on the fact that they personally support some other candidate. It’s all bullshit. All of it. Idiosyncratic opinions that are presented as “news” is destroying this country and our democracy. I can only hope it gets better instead of worse.
