Biden was correct: Homophobia was more prevelant five years ago

[shanny]

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'...“When he hears Harris challenge him it is not an opportunity to move forward with humility, he hears an attack on his very being and he comes from a generation hardwired to defend themselves,” wrote a perceptive person, Gayle Leslie, online. “And whether he understands it about himself or not, the old white guy does not want to give any ground to the black woman who’s telling him he did something wrong. Especially since he’d always thought he was doing her a favor. And that is the problem: he thinks he was not so much a champion of her civil rights as he was a benevolent benefactor.”
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That lack of empathy and stubborn refusal to acknowledge that the world has changed—and he with it!—are making it so that people refuse to give him the benefit of the doubt. At a rich-people fundraiser (the only kind he seems to do) in Seattle on Sunday, his own supporters catcalled him when he claimed that mocking a gay waiter five years ago would have been acceptable. A big deal on its own? Of course not. Gay people were certainly discriminated against five years ago in many places, and many are today. But Biden’s shtick is wearing so thin, people have lost patience for pretty much anything he says.

Morning Consult has the first post-debate poll out the gate, and it shows Biden dropping a whopping five points. Harris gained six. Given that the bulk of Biden’s support is black Americans (he has no other natural constituency in the party), odds are that erosion is coming from black Democrats. And without black support, Biden is nothing.

Biden’s campaign is truly inexplicable. He could’ve ridden off into the sunset as a beloved elder statesman, trusted lieutenant to a transformational, historic president. Instead, he learned nothing from his first two failed runs (he’s not that good at this stuff!); refused to take the pulse of the party’s zeitgeist, one in which women and people of color are ascendant; and is now running a campaign seemingly focused on poking those groups in the eye. "....'

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/1/1868693/-Support-for-segregationist-state-s-rights-no-empathy-stick-a-fork-in-it-Biden-is-done#read-more