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    Words of Division

    The media and celebrities swoon over an inauguration speech that was nothing short of divisive. Unity to Joe means to march in lockstep.

    Heather Mac Donald Words of Division

    It’s an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists, racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency.

    Joe Biden’s inaugural speech as 46th president is predictably being hailed for its “unifying” message. And just as predictably, his invocations of the divisive bromides of the identitarian Left are being swept under the rug.

    According to Biden, we are a “great nation” and a “good people.” But we also oppress minorities with an ever-rising fervor. “Growing inequity” is among the greatest challenges facing the country, according to Biden, along with the “sting of systemic racism” and encroaching “white supremacy.” Only now are we confronting “a cry for racial justice, some four hundred years in the making.”

    One might have thought that more than 50 years of civil rights legislation; the banishing of Jim Crow segregation; the ubiquity of racial preferences throughout corporate America, higher education, and government; trillions of dollars of tax dollars attempting to close the academic achievement gap; and the election of black politicians by white voting districts would have reduced inequity, not increased it. But to Biden’s speechwriters, steeped in academic victimology, racial inequity is always with us, requiring constant remediation from government.

    ...This characterization of America’s worsening racism is not just factually ungrounded, it is also a tasteless rhetorical move in an inaugural address. Reflexive invocations of “systemic racism” and “white supremacy” have become the Tourette’s Syndrome of left-wing professors and activists. They are au courant, shallow terms of the moment, lacking depth or weight....
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    Joe* is going to follow Obama's divisive playbook.
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    Joe, the commie scum has already killed over 1000 jobs.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/us/artic...f-biden-action

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Joe* is going to follow Obama's divisive playbook.
    That'd what it sounds like. Maybe he has the same speech writers.
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    What one might have thought is how a man with a history like Biden's could say any of that with a straight face. One might also wonder if those listening didn't laugh out loud.
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    That'd what it sounds like. Maybe he has the same speech writers.
    He's going through the motions. I doubt many Democrats expect more.
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    That'd what it sounds like. Maybe he has the same speech writers.
    He probably does. His cabinet picks are all Obama officials.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    He's going through the motions. I doubt many Democrats expect more.
    I doubt many Democrats know what to expect, other than it's not Trump.
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    Obama: If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.
    Joe: If I had a daughter, she would be a look-a-like for Breonna...and I'd sniff her head
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    Joe* is going to follow Obama's divisive playbook.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stjames1_53 View Post
    Obama: If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.
    Joe: If I had a daughter, she would be a look-a-like for Breonna...and I'd sniff her head
    We have already seen too many pictures of Hunter and "like father like son".

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