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Joe Biden, weighing a 2020 White House bid, once advocated continued school segregation in the United States, arguing that it benefited minorities and that integration would prevent black people from embracing “their own identity.”
Biden was speaking in 1975, when he opposed the federally mandated busing policy designed to end segregation in schools. In the past few decades, he has claimed he wanted desegregation but believed the policy of busing would not achieve it. Last year, he stated he had voted heroically to protect busing.
So, this was about the same time that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was in high school, right? Except Joe was well beyond High School and also college too, for that matter. Also, there is corroborating evidence in this case, as his statements were on the public record and are documented accordingly.
Will this matter? Honestly, there are going to be those in the black community that are going to bothered by this.
And can you imagine the reaction, by elected Democrats and the leftist media if a Republican candidate for President had spoken these words? Obviously, this would be wall-to-wall breaking news, with all the usual suspects on television, accusing the Republican candidate of being a racist and a bigot worse than Hitler and the last 10 grand wizards of the KKK combined. Of course they vaguely accuse Donald Trump of racism every day, but without any legitimate substantiation to speak of, which this surely is for Joe Biden.
So, if the media ever wants to start being trusted again, they need to start behaving in a trustworthy manner. And that means applying the same standards that they apply to their adversaries to those who they regard as allies. But what is more likely is that they either will avoid this story like the plague, or they will mention it in a story on page 28 below the fold with as few sentences as possible, or on television during a shortened segment, one time, by their least popular show host, probably on a weekend.
If anyone sees the Democrat left mass media covering this, please do let us know.
I thought we aren't supposed to care about the past deeds of the candidate?
Trump supporters only let us go back until 2015. Anything he did prior to that--romp with porn stars, grab em by the P, out of wedlock birth, cheating galore, taking whole page ads promoting executing of 5 innocent teens, stiffing banks and investors, declaring bankruptcies, stealing private land for his personal enrichment, shady deals with dictators...
According to them--none of that matters because it was soooooooo long ago in the 80s and 90s and 2011. But we should care about Biden in 1975?
Yes it will be reported unless it has already been covered ad nauseum. But nobody cares--right? Soooo long ago.
These political hacks all stick their thumb in the air and whatever is chic for the day is what they parrot. Nothing new, just look at the border wall. 2006 all the big players in the Dem party were all onboard with border protection including a wall, now you've got ol' brain rot Nancy preaching to us that walls are "immoral"
In other words I wouldn't get upset about what Biden said back in 75 as like I said they all say whatever they think they need to say to get elected.
Joe Biden, weighing a 2020 White House bid, once advocated continued school segregation in the United States, arguing that it benefited minorities and that integration would prevent black people from embracing “their own identity.”
Biden was speaking in 1975, when he opposed the federally mandated busing policy designed to end segregation in schools. In the past few decades, he has claimed he wanted desegregation but believed the policy of busing would not achieve it. Last year, he stated he had voted heroically to protect busing.
So, this was about the same time that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was in high school, right? Except Joe was well beyond High School and also college too, for that matter. Also, there is corroborating evidence in this case, as his statements were on the public record and are documented accordingly.
Will this matter? Honestly, there are going to be those in the black community that are going to bothered by this.
And can you imagine the reaction, by elected Democrats and the leftist media if a Republican candidate for President had spoken these words? Obviously, this would be wall-to-wall breaking news, with all the usual suspects on television, accusing the Republican candidate of being a racist and a bigot worse than Hitler and the last 10 grand wizards of the KKK combined. Of course they vaguely accuse Donald Trump of racism every day, but without any legitimate substantiation to speak of, which this surely is for Joe Biden.
So, if the media ever wants to start being trusted again, they need to start behaving in a trustworthy manner. And that means applying the same standards that they apply to their adversaries to those who they regard as allies. But what is more likely is that they either will avoid this story like the plague, or they will mention it in a story on page 28 below the fold with as few sentences as possible, or on television during a shortened segment, one time, by their least popular show host, probably on a weekend.
If anyone sees the Democrat left mass media covering this, please do let us know.
Thank goodness we have evolved as a society. Biden was not alone in his thinking. I think we are smarter today but still have lots to learn. I suspect in 40 years we will look back in 2019 and comment on how 'backwards' we seem to be in 2019.
I thought we aren't supposed to care about the past deeds of the candidate?
Trump supporters only let us go back until 2015. Anything he did prior to that--romp with porn stars, grab em by the P, out of wedlock birth, cheating galore, taking whole page ads promoting executing of 5 innocent teens, stiffing banks and investors, declaring bankruptcies, stealing private land for his personal enrichment, shady deals with dictators...
According to them--none of that matters because it was soooooooo long ago in the 80s and 90s and 2011. But we should care about Biden in 1975?
Yes it will be reported unless it has already been covered ad nauseum. But nobody cares--right? Soooo long ago.
Nobody ever said nothing matters because it was in the past. But there needs to be legitimate substantiation and corroboration of the charges and that does not mean the Democrat left echo chamber repeating something enough times - and therefore it is so! What nonsense.
This is corroborated and you know that this is something that people on your side would unanimously go berzerk over - if it was a Republican presidential candidate. But if I am reading you right, this is not going to be an issue for Joe Biden, obviously because he is one of the Democrat's leading presidential candidates.
Do you have any sense of how much the Democrat left and the media do to discredit themselves with these sorts of egregious variances in standards, depending on whether they are talking about a friend or a foe?
What does that matter in this era? It was policy intended to help blacks, right or wrong he was against something intended to help blacks. Must be a racist.
What does that matter in this era? It was policy intended to help blacks, right or wrong he was against something intended to help blacks. Must be a racist.
They would be spewing the foulest vitriol imaginable if someone who they regarded as their political adversaries had made these same exact statements at the same exact time and EVERYONE knows it.
But when they discover a member who has engaged in this otherwise unforgiveably offensive behavior? Either crickets, or excuses defending the guy.
And the media wonders why they are regarded as 'fake news' by so many people.
They will completely ignore what he did to Anita Hill in the 1990s too.
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