Stop with these fucking lies. There isn't a single post - NOT. ONE. - even close to insinuating this line of thought.
It would have turned into round 3/4/5/6--I forgot how many times it has come up so far--of him being hounded by the media and his opponents for not "denouncing the rioting and looting". This is effectively the same statement Biden has made all year.
So what? It's the same statement he's made all year and it's still fucking TRASH.
The reality is, there is no better statement to make. Not one that doesn't come with major drawbacks. Biden has consistently condemned the deaths of black Americans at the hands of law enforcement, while also decrying violence, looting, property damage, etc. because he has to. Could he do more to expand on the subject? Probably. But it's just going to get picked to death no matter what he does.
careful, saw someone get banned the other day for the scratch a liberal line.
The OP statement doesn't even acknowledge that his death was at the hands of law enforcement, much less condemn it.
I mean, do you think many people seeing this statement don't already know the circumstances? It's clearly a response to a question with a clearly established context. If he had explained that, people would then attack him for not using strong enough language. If he used strong enough language, he would have gotten destroyed by the media. Hence my point--there isn't really a better statement he can make.
There is a better statement to make:
Ok... You're clearly projecting some deeply held prejudices onto me as a means to find an argument. I'm dipping out, there's no discussion to be had with you.
I don't agree that there isn't a better statement to make. There's hundreds of statements he could've made that wasn't as bad as this one. One was pointed out to you but you dismissed it because you concern is more with Biden's electoral chances than justice for our communities. And honestly that's fine if that's where you prerogatives rests but just be honest about that and lose this tired adult in the room posture
How else is anyone supposed to take that post then? Why even say "better than a far left candidate calling for violence" as if that is the alternative anyone is suggesting or even a remote possibility? The comparison serves only to prop up this shitty statement of Biden's.
That statement you posted also does not directly mention that it was a shooting involving law enforcement--the initial criticism I responded to.
Where? I responded to someone that said he could have left out the second paragraph, but then it would have just been a statement devoid of any acknowledgement there is a problem and/or any proposals to make changes. It still doesn't do what the post I quoted said without that second paragraph--and I can guarantee if he released just the first statement, it would have turned into exactly what I said it would and/or people would have accused him of not caring about the issue.
I'm not even saying you're wrong about that. It would have the potential of the media trying to both sides the shit and asking him questions about the looting. The thing is, I don't give a fuck. Biden is a politician he knows how to interface with the media. He has had years of experience doing so. There's opportunities for the campaign to even setup counter narratives to the looting and have that compete for the same air time. Whatever. What actually sucks is my community constantly being thrown under the fucking bus. It sucks that Biden would seemingly choose to throw us under the bus with a shit statement than rather deal with media questions something that he and his campaign are paying themselves salaries to do.
1. It's not a question, it's a statement. It's sitting on the Biden website right now in response to absolutely nothing. They could've framed this however they wanted.
He has done just that on dozens of occasions. He outright said there is implicit bias in law enforcement and that this country has a problem with systemic racism in the last debate, and in the first debate. He has done so in town halls, he has done so in speeches, he has done so on television interviews. He has acknowledged the problem.
The bold is kind of the point I'm trying to make. Biden and his team know how to work the media--to a point that it is driving them nuts. This statement is an example of that. He has to pre-empt concerns. He knows if he doesn't explicitly condemn rioting, looting, and various forms of violence, that is what the narrative will be. As I said just above--and could have done a better job pointing out elsewhere, my apologies--he has acknowledged that there is bias and racism in law enforcement at just about every opportunity. I can understand the frustration, but as I said, this is essentially the same response he has had multiple times, and unfortunately the statement he has to make because it is the "safe" option.
I just can't see how comparing the property destruction in reaction to someone being murdered with someone being fucking murdered by state agents who are ostensibly here to "protect" us is in any world a good statement. I'm not interested in arguing if it's "safe" or not I'm arguing about it's value and how it frames the issues in our communities. Like you're proving my point. Biden would rather through us under the bus because it's "safe" than to spend time answer POTENTIAL media questions about looting.
It's my understanding it was put on his website after/alongside being the response his communication team sent out to the media asking him about it. I have a hard time believing it was a completely unprompted statement. His website contains several sections on racial inequality, and the one on Criminal Justice Reform specifically has a section about racial disparities--here I do think the language could be more clear. As I mentioned elsewhere and acknowledge I should have clarified better; Biden has on many many many occasions acknowledged systemic racism and implicit bias in law enforcement. It is an established narrative within/by his campaign.
Clearly they were empty words. His actions speak different. His statement doesn't even mention the police brutality Wallace faced. Biden has said repeatedly that he thinks most cops are good and that it's an issue of bad apples. He has a history of both sides'ing it, as seen in this video:
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If the Biden campaign is as consistently good at acknowledging racism as you say it is, I would expect them to bring it up in response to someone actually being killed by the police. Y'know, the topic that this thread is about.
Be that as it may, its only framing is as a statement on the killing. That's the title, not "statement on civil unrest in Philadelphia" or "response to the media". If yourself (someone who is very clearly famiiar with the Biden campaign) can't figure out the correct context beyond the one given by the text, how is any random visitor to Biden's site supposed to? The Biden website has general statements in response to all types of news, this was just between one of Biden praising the governor of Michigan and one praising the protestors in Belarus for standing up to stun grenades and mass detentions (lol).
The unfortunate reality is a lot of people don't see it the same way, and as much as we want it to be a moral statement, it's 6 days from an election and everything is politically oriented. I really don't love that fact, but it's the reality of things. I think Biden's history of calling out systemic racism and racial bias in law enforcement is pretty well established.
