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Man, I'm starting to wish I'd have watched this train wreck. Oh well, I'm sure the best parts will be all over youboob soon enough.
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I think the research into this contains certain elements of truth, but Biden showed no understanding of the nuances. I think the most likely explanation for the differences in language abilities are to do with how much attention and interaction a child and a parent get from looking at books and having the parents read to them. With picture books that have a lot of content, the parents can spend more time holding a conversation or even directing the language from the book towards the child. With very simple board books, there is likely to be less interaction. But ultimately the difference is how much language is directed towards the child.
The fact that Biden thinks that just sticking "the record player" on is the way to meet a quota of words shows he doesn't know what he is talking about, although frankly I think he was just on-tilt while trying to bat away the question about segregation and was free-associating to prevent himself having to directly address his old comments about segregation.
"You dyed your hair brown!"
"I was thinking about what you said about blondes being more likely to get skin cancer."
Ha ha! Yeah, this was the bit I was talking about earlier where somehow he droned on and on making no sense as an answer to the question.
Even better he decided he wanted to talk more complaining that everyone else got to talk and then went on about Venezuela. Huh?
I felt a bit sorry for him. He seemed a bit lost and at one point when Castro was laying into him he seemed like he had to ask Bernie Sanders “wasse sayin”. When you have to rely on Bernie Sanders to tell you what people around you are saying you really do look out of touch.
Everyone did fine. It's just that "performed adequately" doesn't make for an impactful narrative that changes people's minds, so the slightest thing is being seized on.Man, I'm starting to wish I'd have watched this train wreck. Oh well, I'm sure the best parts will be all over youboob soon enough.
Nolte: Biden’s Racist Idea of Reparations Is Teach Black People How to Raise Kids
So Biden’s answer to what he sees as institutional segregation will be to send government bureaucrats, in the form of social workers, into black homes to ” to help [black parents] deal with how to raise their children.”
And then it got worse. The reason he wants to do this is because black parents “don’t know quite what to do.”
Let me reiterate: Biden’s plan is to send social workers into black homes to teach the parents how to raise their own children because these black parents don’t know quite what to do.
One more time: Biden’s plan is to send social workers into black homes to turn on this thing called a record player or the gramophone or the Victrola or the 8-track — you know, whatever hip kids are turned on by, to “make sure that kids hear words.”
Apparently, Biden doesn’t think kids are hearing enough words in black homes.
Sarcasm aside… Good God.
Try to imagine the media reaction if Trump said he wanted to send government employees into black homes to teach black parents how to raise their children…
Which takes us back to what I’ve said before…
In order to attack Trump as racist, you have to lie, you have to invent and fabricate things, you have to deliberately take him out of context.
This, however, is not the case with Biden. No one has to lie to prove Biden’s racist, and this is yet another example…
Paternalism is a devious form of racism. Infantilizing is, as well. It is full-blown supremacism. Biden believes black people need help raising their children for one reason: because they are black, because of the color of their skin.
The wingnuts are already attacking Biden from the left over his debate performance:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...Jd_qGCykeiRbeNCKdPiiBdyP9DrJJWta088y8PxSfvH78
That Breitbart piece is both more and less charitable to Biden than I am. It comes to a less charitable conclusion (he’s racist) by assuming something more charitable (he said anything coherent).
"Body of work".
Biden in 2007: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."
He especially did when he said, "This is America", to Sanders who was describing how our health care falls short.I think it's because his positions reflect 1970's-1990's politics, and he comes across as an out-of-touch old man.
The wingnuts are already attacking Biden from the left over his debate performance:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...Jd_qGCykeiRbeNCKdPiiBdyP9DrJJWta088y8PxSfvH78
Much as I thought Biden's answer reeked of Moynahan Report (in reality, it's the percentage of poor people in your area that's most correlated with poor school performance - and we're discussing *wealth*, not *income*), um, I sincerely don't care what Breitbart has to say about black people, or any other group for that matter. n Last I checked, they were still pushing overt white nationalism.
I have a line from a James Joyce novel tattooed on my body.
Thereby preemptively securing the 2019 Non-Sequitur Post of the Year award.
YANG: Now, I am Asian, so I know a lot of doctors....
BTW, there was an amusing bit of racism from Yang:
That was obviously a joke, and I laughed when he said it.