Biden says minorities aren't smart enough to go online

[Mountain Man]

If anyone thinks that getting online is a cinch for everyone, that may be their white privilege showing.

So you agree with racist Joe that blacks and Hispanics are too "underprivileged" (which is to say too poor, ignorant, and uneducated) to understand how to use the internet despite the fact that anybody who has a smartphone can get online.

[rogue06]

Just to be clear here, does this mean you are in favor of court-ordered busing of white kids to overwhelmingly black schools, and vice versa?

I actually went to a school where court-ordered bussing took place.

Of the three Junior Highs in the city I lived in, we were 10% black and the other two had two or three blacks attending them total. When they were done, our school was 25% black and the other two were less than 10%. And all three were within walking distance of each other (at least what was considered walking distance back then^[1]), so I never understood why the other two were only brought up to the same level we were at before bussing while ours was more than doubled.

Anywho, of the 10% of blacks going to our school before bussing, nearly everyone of them were bussed to the other side of the county to a mostly black school . Many of them lived in the subdivision adjacent to ours and actually closer to the school they were removed from. So my personal experience was that it was largely a cluster screw up. Further, people often pick where they live when they move to a community based in large part to a school's reputation. Ours was the best in the county.

So while I see bussing as a failure and wouldn't support it, that view is not based on worries that the school would become, as old Joe complained, "a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle."







1 My school was exactly 1 mile from my front door to their front door (on nice days I walked home getting there at the same time), the other two were between two and three miles away.

[Stoic]

I actually went to a school where court-ordered bussing took place.

Of the three Junior Highs in the city I lived in, we were 10% black and the other two had two or three blacks attending them total. When they were done, our school was 25% black and the other two were less than 10%. And all three were within walking distance of each other (at least what was considered walking distance back then^[1]), so I never understood why the other two were only brought up to the same level we were at before bussing while ours was more than doubled.

Anywho, of the 10% of blacks going to our school before bussing, nearly everyone of them were bussed to the other side of the county to a mostly black school . Many of them lived in the subdivision adjacent to ours and actually closer to the school they were removed from. So my personal experience was that it was largely a cluster screw up. Further, people often pick where they live when they move to a community based in large part to a school's reputation. Ours was the best in the county.

So while I see bussing as a failure and wouldn't support it, that view is not based on worries that the school would become, as old Joe complained, "a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle."







1 My school was exactly 1 mile from my front door to their front door (on nice days I walked home getting there at the same time), the other two were between two and three miles away.

So you agree with Joe on policy, but don't like the way he used the word "jungle".

[Cow Poke]

I get SO TIRED of Biden's 'sad animal stories' -- whiney stories of how compassionate he is, and how there are no "ordinary Americans", they're all Extraordinary..... "I know it's hard, I know it's hard, I promise you, I remember....."

He's trying to be the Nation's Pastor (but without the Jesus part), and it really really gets old. "You're gonna be OK - you're gonna be OK....."

"remain vigilant - to say ... to stay socially distant -- we must end the political....."

And "as one people - as the UNITED States of America"... while he continues his leftist agenda.

OK, rant over.

[NorrinRadd]

I'm still working through the concept that my impression that a young black or brown person would probably be more adept at using electronics and doing things online that I am equates to "white privilege."

[oxmixmudd]

I actually went to a school where court-ordered bussing took place.

Of the three Junior Highs in the city I lived in, we were 10% black and the other two had two or three blacks attending them total. When they were done, our school was 25% black and the other two were less than 10%. And all three were within walking distance of each other (at least what was considered walking distance back then^[1]), so I never understood why the other two were only brought up to the same level we were at before bussing while ours was more than doubled.

Anywho, of the 10% of blacks going to our school before bussing, nearly everyone of them were bussed to the other side of the county to a mostly black school . Many of them lived in the subdivision adjacent to ours and actually closer to the school they were removed from. So my personal experience was that it was largely a cluster screw up. Further, people often pick where they live when they move to a community based in large part to a school's reputation. Ours was the best in the county.

So while I see bussing as a failure and wouldn't support it, that view is not based on worries that the school would become, as old Joe complained, "a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle."







1 My school was exactly 1 mile from my front door to their front door (on nice days I walked home getting there at the same time), the other two were between two and three miles away.

There were many non-racist issues to oppose busing. In many ways it was an attempt to put the responsibility for resolving the deep racial issues in our country on the shoulders of children. I Moved south in the second year of forced busing in NC. And it was miserable. At the same time, I'm not sure there existed any other way to solve the problem of massively unequal schools and school funding across racial boundaries. One good thing that came of it was that when the white kids were in what were the black schools before the busing in what were still dangerous neighborhoods, those white parents and politicians cared about what was happening there both in terms of crime and in terms of educational competence. Before then (and after) not so much.

[Mountain Man]

I'm still working through the concept that my impression that a young black or brown person would probably be more adept at using electronics and doing things online that I am equates to "white privilege."

It's apparently "white privilege" to point out the racism of liberals.

[Mountain Man]

There were many non-racist issues to oppose busing.

And yet Joe went out of his way to articulate his opposition using racist language. But what else would you expect from a guy who thinks that a clean, articulate black man is like something out of a storybook, or that most minorities are too stupid to know how to use the internet.

I wonder, do you ever cringe at Joe's words and think to yourself, "Boy, is that going to tough to rationalize!"

[oxmixmudd]

And yet Joe went out of his way to articulate his opposition using racist language. But what else would you expect from a guy who thinks that a clean, articulate black man is like something out of a storybook, or that most minorities are too stupid to know how to use the internet.

I wonder, do you ever cringe at Joe's words and think to yourself, "Boy, is that going to tough to rationalize!"

simply not true. He does not use racist language in that clip. He is talking about proactively accounting for the potential roadblocks to vaccination in poorer communities. There is no reason other than hyperpartisan acrimony to interpret them in such an antagonistic mode.

And speaking of elephants in the room wrt societal racism, how about that strong correlation between poorer communities and minority communities!

[Sparko]

simply not true. He does not use racist language in that clip. He is talking about proactively accounting for the potential roadblocks to vaccination in poorer communities. There is no reason other than hyperpartisan acrimony to interpret them in such an antagonistic mode.

And speaking of elephants in the room wrt societal racism, how about that strong correlation between poorer communities and minority communities!

You've never been to Appalachia?

[Cow Poke]

And yet Joe went out of his way to articulate his opposition using racist language. But what else would you expect from a guy who thinks that a clean, articulate black man is like something out of a storybook, or that most minorities are too stupid to know how to use the internet.

I wonder, do you ever cringe at Joe's words and think to yourself, "Boy, is that going to tough to rationalize!"

It's like when somebody is deeply in love - or otherwise deeply emotionally involved - and you tend to see what you want to see, and not see what you don't want to see.

[oxmixmudd]

You've never been to Appalachia?

That is a regional disparity that has a very different history. I'm talking about nationwide where the average black net worth is 1/7th that of the white population

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-fr...te-wealth-gap/


and income < 1/2 that of the white population.

https://www.epi.org/blog/racial-disp...rowth-in-2019/

[Cow Poke]

It's apparently "white privilege" to point out the racism of liberals.

It's "white privilege" for a white guy to breathe air.

[seanD]

simply not true. He does not use racist language in that clip. He is talking about proactively accounting for the potential roadblocks to vaccination in poorer communities. There is no reason other than hyperpartisan acrimony to interpret them in such an antagonistic mode.

And speaking of elephants in the room wrt societal racism, how about that strong correlation between poorer communities and minority communities!

You're lying, Ox, simple as that. He clearly invokes race -- he specifically said "black" and "Hispanic." You're lying because it conflicts with your obsession about racism and white supremacy. It's the double standard of double standards. At least you recognize how hypocritical it is and so you're forced to lie about it. Just own it -- the man has flaws and be a man about it.

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