Biden in Kenosha: Trump has 'legitimized a dark side of human nature'

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday said President Trump has "legitimized a dark side of human nature” in remarks at Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha, Wis.

Speaking at a community gathering to address the recent civil unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, Biden said the unrest is not entirely Trump’s fault, but that the president had emboldened racists and inflamed racial tensions at a time when the nation is deeply divided.

The former vice president told a story about how protests had destroyed his hometown of Wilmington, Del., years ago following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He said he recently looked out over Wilmington and was briefly encouraged to see how it had been rebuilt.

“I said, don’t tell me things can’t change … but I made a mistake about something,” Biden said. “I thought you could defeat hate. It only hides. And when someone in authority breathes oxygen under that rock, it legitimizes those folks to come on out from under the rocks.”



Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/515019-biden-in-kenosha-trump-has-legitimized-a-dark-side-of-human-nature

[ananda]

1. Exactly! So right!

Thank you, Joe!

[sakabatou]

2. Indeed he has

[Tumbulu]

3. Exactly!

And I don’t know how to put it back under the rock, either! Because even if we win this election, these guys are all amped up and ready to fight.

We must get rid of hate media!

[appalachiablue]

4. +1 They will be there indeed, & vengeful if he

loses and more emboldened if he wins dog forbid.

What will it take for an ultra wealthy person like Tom Steyer to buy out a major media venue, or develop a new, honest and accessible news outlet? It's almost too late, the damage is so vast.

[Tumbulu]

12. I know, it is beyond my comprehension how vast

And for the life of me, I do not know why these people are so clueless about how to communicate with this segment of the population. The ones susceptible to the hate media's manipulations.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

5. Children are taught to be racists.

It is not natural to hate.

[ZZenith]

6. Tried to!

In no way is it legitimate to hate someone based on the color of their skin, in spite of Trump’s best effort to make it so.

[Initech]

7. Keep telling it like it is, Joe!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Indeed he has

That's what his deplorables love about him.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Just like Voldemort coming back. The evil has been unleashed and will need to be destroyed.

[summer_in_TX]

10. I grew up thinking that we'd defeated pure evil in WWII.

In my elementary school in the early 1960s, I got the message that Naziism was forever destroyed.

Once I realized it was rising again I came to realize that evil is a cosmic force, whether you attribute it to Satan or something else. It's beyond individuals, or so it seems to me.

[marybourg]

11. He has not just legitimized it, he has

weaponized it.