• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    Do you think he may have possibly changed his views on such things in the intervening half-century?

    Robert Byrd started in the KKK and died a champion of civil rights, endorsed by the NAACP.

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      5 months ago

      In 2020, during a radio interview, Biden said “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black”

      Also in 2020, Biden stated that "unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things

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        5 months ago

        He is correct about both things. Trump hates black people, so you are a traitor to your race if you vote for him, and the black community’s culture is based on American culture while Latino culture is based on the cultures of countries across the Americas and the Caribbean.

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          5 months ago

          So you have no business calling others racist. Thank you for this.

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              5 months ago

              Those statements are clearly racist and you saying he is correct. Don’t worry, you are one of the good racists bruh, so it’s ok.

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                Believe it or not, declaring a statement to be racist and not actually explaining what is racist about it doesn’t make it racist. I can declare anything you say as racist. That doesn’t make it so.

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                  5 months ago

                  Why are you even here arguing if you do not know what racism is? Are you trying to redefine racism?

                  I’ll explain it for you. Now is your time to stop digging a deeper hole for yourself.

                  Those statements make sweeping generalizations about the African American community implying they are not diverse and lack varied perspectives.

                  There.

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                    5 months ago

                    I am implying no such thing. American culture is quite diverse and, as I said, it’s based in American culture.

                    There are 33 Latin American countries, most of them with diverse cultures themselves.

                    It is just not possible for the Black community to be more diverse than the Latino community- unless you’re going to argue that those 33 countries all have the same culture.

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        5 months ago

        I mean the second one is just objectively true, the black community tends to vote as a bloc while latine communities can vary in a variety of ways because they’re basically as diverse as the rest of the US as a whole is. Even from within the same country of origin there can be significant splits in opinion, northern and southern mexicans pretty frequently vote for different parties, because northern mexicans tend to be from longer established communities and families while southern mexicans tend to be much more recent newcomers.

        Meanwhile the split in the black community is mostly just some dudes who got sucked into the manosphere and literally everyone else facepalming at their bullshit.