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Joe Biden: racist?

Roger Ramjets said:
Your post is racist. How do we know this?

Bangladesh suspends travel to South Africa amid fears of Omicron variant spreadYou imply that Biden (who is white) is racist for banning travel from South Africa, but nary a peep about countries whose leaders are Indian, Sri Lankan or Jewish. Why? Because they aren't 'white'?

But it gets worse than that. 8.4% of South Africans are white, so that means you are accusing Biden of racism against his own people! And many other African nations are not on the list, implying that this 'racism' is very selective.

But it seems your racism is very selective too. Let's be honest here, the real reason for your selectivity is that Biden is a Democrat. You know, that group you hate for no other reason than that they aren't part of your tribe. Skin color is not the only defining factor of racist belief.
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Warp12 said:
I'm really laughing at how the OP's point is going over certain people's heads. :D
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It keeps getting more funny.
 
No person not wearing pants, their fly is not down. You did not "gotcha" them to prove they are just as bad.

F minus trolling, please try again.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
Steely Dan has a great album about stuff like this. It’s called “Pretzel Logic”. I knew there’d be some struggling to reconcile the Reuters article and the Biden quote, but I didn’t expect it to be this entertaining. :popcorn6
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I bet you think Trump really knocked out Vince McMahon at that 2007 Wrestlemania event, too, dontcha?
 
Stacyhs said:
I bet you think Trump really knocked out Vince McMahon at that 2007 Wrestlemania event, too, dontcha?
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There is no doubt that professional wrestling is staged. Just like there is no doubt that Biden used to chum it up with segregationists.

Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk...mise-segregationists-he-fought-their-n1021626

Maybe Kamala Harris was onto something, after all? Personally, I don't consider him to be a racist. But, considering his age, and those he hung around the water cooler with, I wouldn't be surprised if he knows a pretty good assortment of jokes about "them negroes".
 
I’ve seen laughably ridiculous threads in politics over the past few years, but this takes the cake.
 
Warp12 said:
I don't consider him to be a racist. But,
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"I'm not saying Biden's a racist, but..."

considering his age, and those he hung around the water cooler with, I wouldn't be surprised if he knows a pretty good assortment of jokes about "them negroes".
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Speaking from personal experience?

I grew up in a time and place when such jokes were commonplace, yet for some reason I can't recall any. However you 'wouldn't be surprised' if Biden 'knew' lots of them - this despite having 'serious mental decline' according to conservatives. A very selective memory loss apparently...

But I'm not surprised you purport to believe this - after all a partisan's gotta do what a partisan's gotta do.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
What you're responding to is a Reuters news feed.
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No, he is responding your post.

You see, when someone posts a link with no critique of the contents, that means they are using it to bolster their own argument. You posited that Joe Biden is racist, and you used that news article as support for it. Don't think you can get away with it just because you didn't explicitly make the connection - we all know what you meant.

But what's worse is is you know it's a false equivalence. The words from Biden that you quoted were in response to this:-

Trump administration expands travel ban
President Donald Trump will expand his contentious travel ban, placing new restrictions on six additional countries, just as he embarks on a tough reelection campaign where he will tout his hard-line stance on immigration...

The initial executive order, which followed a call from Trump during the 2016 campaign for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” initially denied visas to citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries. It was later modified as it went through a series of court challenges...

The initial travel ban was extremely polarizing... while 39 percent of registered voters approved of expanding the travel ban, 41 percent opposed it... Support or opposition fell largely along party lines. Close to three-quarters of Republicans backed an expansion, while two-thirds of Democrats — and 42 percent of independents — opposed expanding the ban.
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The current travel ban has nothing to do with race, culture or nationality - but purely stopping the spread of a virus which is potentially much more deadly than those we are currently battling. You know this. You also know that Trump's immigration bans were racially motivated.

But this difference didn't stop you from arguing that if Trump's bans on immigration were racist, so were Biden's travel restrictions to prevent spread of a deadly virus. It doesn't bother you that the reasons are completely different, you just found ammunition for another partisan attack and went with it.

You should be worried about whether we will survive the Omicron virus, not using it as fodder for meritless partisan attacks. Not only is this action intellectually dishonest, it's obnoxious. A lot of people will die from this latest variant, perhaps even more if political attacks like yours reduce our ability to respond to it. If that happens the blood will be on your hands.
 
To hear someone complain about partisan politics in this environment...what a zinger! :D
 
Warp12 said:
There is no doubt that professional wrestling is staged. Just like there is no doubt that Biden used to chum it up with segregationists.

Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk...mise-segregationists-he-fought-their-n1021626

Maybe Kamala Harris was onto something, after all? Personally, I don't consider him to be a racist. But, considering his age, and those he hung around the water cooler with, I wouldn't be surprised if he knows a pretty good assortment of jokes about "them negroes".
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Busing was a very controversial subject in the 70's and Biden did not like the idea of forced busing.
“I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed.”

He sponsored "a bill that would limit the power of courts to order school desegregation with busing." He was not against school desegregation.

Apart from the busing issue, Biden developed a legislative history in other areas key to black Americans over his decades in the Senate. It includes support for fair housing, employment and voting rights, as well as credit and lending equality and opposition to the apartheid in South Africa.

Today, Biden has an army of defenders in the Congressional Black Caucus and in Democratic political circles.

Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., described Biden as an inclusive, energetic supporter of civil rights — and said the busing issue was an exception.

“He disappointed, if you would, mainstream progressive Democrats, including me, and yet I considered him an ally in most fights and was always glad to have him on my side,” Hamilton said.
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I can just hear the screeching and howling of conservative parents now if the courts ordered their children to be bussed miles away from their own neighborhoods and having to spend an hour more each way every day. They'd be yelling their heads off about 'parental rights' and 'You can't tell me where my kid has to go to school!"
 
Stacyhs said:
<predictable Dem apologism>
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Quoting Kamala Harris:

“I do not believe you are a racist and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground.
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Harris continued, "But, I also believe—and it's personal. And I—I was actually very—it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on segregation of race in this country."
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I mean, she doesn't consider him a racist, either. Especially not now, after she accepted her role as a Dem token. But, it is easy to spin such narratives, isn't it?
 
Warp12 said:
Quoting Kamala Harris:



I mean, she doesn't consider him a racist, either. Especially not now, after she accepted her role as a Dem token. But, it is easy to spin such narratives, isn't it?
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Yeah, I suppose he could have refused to work with racist senators but then he would have had to work mostly by himself considering the amount of racism then. And he certainly couldn't have worked with Trump. Or MTG or Boebert.

You seem to find it very easy to spin narratives. It's what you do. But your biggest narrative spin failure is to convince anyone you're not a Trump supporter, Duckie.
 
lionking said:
I’ve seen laughably ridiculous threads in politics over the past few years, but this takes the cake.
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It's an excellent reflection of what passes for conservatism in America and on this forum in recent years.

I was born and raised a Republican. I voted for Nixon. I never left the Republican Party, it left me.
 
Trebuchet said:
It's an excellent reflection of what passes for conservatism in America and on this forum in recent years.

I was born and raised a Republican. I voted for Nixon. I never left the Republican Party, it left me.
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You think that is bad, you ought to see what passes for liberalism these days...
 
"A wall will not stop the coronavirus.

Banning all travel from Europe — or any other part of the world — will not stop it." --Joe Biden, March 12, 2020
 
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