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Biden uses racist term regarding a senior advisor.
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Speaking of adults… have we even heard from the victim of this supposed racist attack from Biden? How does he feel about the remark? Has he called it out as racist?There's no "context" when that term is used of an adult African-American.
Or are y’all outraged on his behalf?
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Yes there is, there is always a context with language.There's no "context" when that term is used of an adult African-American.
For instance in post #10, what makes it racist is not the term "boy" (a reference to the idiom, "You can take the boy out of the country, but not the country out of the boy"), it's the reference to the "ghetto" that makes it racist. Can you explain how the reference to boy by President Biden was meant to denigrate a Black man?
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It's a disingenuous argument. The belief seems to be that previous times when someone is called racist, it is simply for using a word, but as always, it's about context.
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No, there isn't.
Of course, and it's ridiculous to try to argue that it isn't what it is. By the way also, your hypothetical situation (take the boy out of the whatever) does not apply to this situation we are talking about; it might apply somewhere else, but it doesn't apply to what the President said about this person.
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Except it wasn’t. We’ve already established that use of the word boy as a racist term is dependent upon context. We’ve shown that specific context is not present in this particular example. All you have is you saying people can’t say boy to a black man but you haven’t shown that the intention nor the reception of the word was racist. That’s why it matters how the supposed victim took his use of the word.
You have failed to support your case.
The fact remains he didn’t say anything racist. All we have here are Biden haters trying to make mountains out of molehills and failing miserably. We can conclude this because the person you’re painting as the victim here hasn’t expressed any concern over the language used by the president. You don’t even seem to care how he feels about it. Until you do, I can chalk this up to being nothing more than bitter Biden haters being bitter Biden haters with no good reason.
Have a nice day.
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It probably wasn’t meant to denigrate him. Biden just thinks whites are better than blacks. And if you need evidence, just look at his past racist comments.
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Sure, it was. And we haven't established that "context" settles this.
To me, that comes across as just the latest alibi after the failure of several earlier ones.
But since we aren't getting anywhere, I agree that we might as well quit this.
and you as well!
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Nope.
If he had said, "And boy, he sure knows Louisiana well!", then you'd have a point.
But he said, "senior advisor and boy who know Louisiana very, very well."
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As the opposing side likes to say, "It depends on context". He said it referring to a black man. In that context, it be racist.
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Does that mean I can shout at a black man out on my lawn, "Get outta here, boy!" and it wouldn't be racist of me to do so?
The words, "Birth Certificate" aren't racist either, and I won't get in trouble for posting those words here. Get the picture? Now, if we're referring to the birth certificate of a black, then the racist accusations come out.
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