DGS49
Diamond Member
Yesterday, former Vice President Joseph Biden made comments that implied that the American Black community is attitudinally monolithic. And of course, the President joined the current army of Professional Umbrage-Takers, telling all who would listen that this was a gigantic insult to America's Black community, and Biden doesn't deserve a single Black vote, due to his racist perspective.
Judge for yourself:
"Yes, yes," Biden responded. "And by the way, what you all know, but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”
My thoughts start with the observation that the very word, "Hispanic," is bullshit. "Hispanic" implies that Cuban Americans, Mexican Americans, Panamanians, Puerto Ricans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and even - if you can imagine it - Americans from SPAIN, are all part of one "community," and can be thought of as a monolithic horde - merely because they speak the same (or a similar) language. This is manifestly preposterous. And while most of these distinct ethnic groups tend to vote Democrat, Cubans conspicuously divert from this path, as do a few others.
On the contrary, Blacks are as monolithic as can be. The dreadful Mrs. Clinton defeated Donald Trump by an EIGHTY POINT MARGIN (88%-8%) in 2016. Imagine what the margin would have been with a Democrat candidate who wasn't so odious. Obama won by a margin of 93-6 in 2012.
God bless the Black people who think independently - even those who are merely contrarian - and refuse to toe the mandatory line of Leftist support. But there are far too few of them, and although VP Biden has since done his best to retract his remark quoted above, it must be recorded as a classic GAFFE, which is to say, something which is TRUE, but better left unsaid.
This is yet another example of the horrible "cancel culture" that prevails on today's left. The man says something that is not terribly controversial, and then has to give himself a figurative hernia trying to take it back because of the army of critics whose whole reason for existence seems to be finding things to whine about.
BIden was right. For once.
Judge for yourself:
"Yes, yes," Biden responded. "And by the way, what you all know, but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”
My thoughts start with the observation that the very word, "Hispanic," is bullshit. "Hispanic" implies that Cuban Americans, Mexican Americans, Panamanians, Puerto Ricans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and even - if you can imagine it - Americans from SPAIN, are all part of one "community," and can be thought of as a monolithic horde - merely because they speak the same (or a similar) language. This is manifestly preposterous. And while most of these distinct ethnic groups tend to vote Democrat, Cubans conspicuously divert from this path, as do a few others.
On the contrary, Blacks are as monolithic as can be. The dreadful Mrs. Clinton defeated Donald Trump by an EIGHTY POINT MARGIN (88%-8%) in 2016. Imagine what the margin would have been with a Democrat candidate who wasn't so odious. Obama won by a margin of 93-6 in 2012.
God bless the Black people who think independently - even those who are merely contrarian - and refuse to toe the mandatory line of Leftist support. But there are far too few of them, and although VP Biden has since done his best to retract his remark quoted above, it must be recorded as a classic GAFFE, which is to say, something which is TRUE, but better left unsaid.
This is yet another example of the horrible "cancel culture" that prevails on today's left. The man says something that is not terribly controversial, and then has to give himself a figurative hernia trying to take it back because of the army of critics whose whole reason for existence seems to be finding things to whine about.
BIden was right. For once.