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Wow.  No one has started such a thread yet?

After promising that most K-8 students would be in schools in the first 100 days,  apparently Joe is afraid to lead on this and has drastically scaled back that goal.

Instead, we're shooting for about half to go to school at least one day a week,  by the end of April.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-02-09/bidens-goal-for-school-reopenings-suddenly-became-more-attainable

 

28 minutes ago, Tweety said:

I don't have any reason to believe a black gay woman can't be anything at all either, and it's becoming easier as time goes on.   

It made the news because she was the first.  If you think that's a fake milestone that's your prerogative.  It made the news, not that there was a great celebration like when Obama became President, but it was newsworthy as a milestone, in my opinion.  

Sooner, I hope rather than later, there won't be any "first African American....." anything.  

That's fine.  She's reasonably qualified, but perhaps wouldn't have been the number one choice if they werent able to check off all those boxes with her.

I'm sure the search is already underway for the first immigrant transgender press secretary for when this one gets tired of covering for Biden's misstatements and gaffes. 

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1 hour ago, Beerman said:

I'm sure the search is already underway for the first immigrant transgender press secretary for when this one gets tired of covering for Biden's misstatements and gaffes. 

...and cue the chorus from Republicans "there might have been a white person more qualified but didn't stand a chance, talk about discrimination and racism....."

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2 hours ago, Tweety said:

...and cue the chorus from Republicans "there might have been a white person more qualified but didn't stand a chance, talk about discrimination and racism....."

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Except Republicans didn't say anything about  any qualified"white person", only that others may have more qualifications and skin color should not be a consideration. In reference to Justice Jackson,  Biden made it clear the specific color and gender of who he will nominate. The "others"included anyone who wasn't a black woman. Not even a chance. 

So ...... Biden chose this black women over Asian, Aboriginal,  East Indian(think about the poor slight Indian accent workers at Dunken Dounuts!), Latin........and yes white people. Sounds kinda racist in my opinion. 

So..... Biden just discriminated against everyone who wasn't a black woman. Perhaps he felt he had to do this because he doesn't think a black women could get the appointment on her merit or qualifications? In a way saying" brown and black kids are just as smart as white kids". But in a supreme court way? So ya know? Good 'ol uncle white Biden, helping the poor POC again....... What a hero champion of civil rights.... 

Good thing though she voted for him because if she didn't "she ain't black" and definitely wouldn't have got the nomination.... 

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I'm just glad that Biden returned us to the sanity of an actual daily press briefing that doesn't treat the press like the enemy. 

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11 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

I'm just glad that Biden returned us to the sanity of an actual daily press briefing that doesn't treat the press like the enemy. 

Perhaps  that's because he does so few? Not to mention the press treats him a bit differently than the previous press briefings. 

Anyone with eyes can see the difference of both his far,few and in-between press time and his habit of answering few,if any questions. 

I wonder if the new press secretary will have to walk back his gaffes again? 

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2 hours ago, Justlookingfornow said:

Perhaps  that's because he does so few? Not to mention the press treats him a bit differently than the previous press briefings. 

Anyone with eyes can see the difference of both his far,few and in-between press time and his habit of answering few,if any questions. 

I wonder if the new press secretary will have to walk back his gaffes again? 

When you say that the Biden administration "does so few" and describe the press briefings as few and far between, what are you talking about? Surely you aren't comparing frequency of briefings with the Trump administration. Maybe you don't recall that Trump's communication team didn't hold a briefing for almost a year, and one of his press secretaries (Grisholm) didn't conduct a single press briefing in her 8 month stint in the job.

My guess is that you are referring to that right wing complaint that the current POTUS uses his communication team to address the press. 

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9 hours ago, Tweety said:

...and cue the chorus from Republicans "there might have been a white person more qualified but didn't stand a chance, talk about discrimination and racism....."

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As Just Looking mentioned, the Republicans haven't said more qualified white person.

This us a great example of how identity politics and the rhetoric in support of it is working for the Democrats. 

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5 hours ago, Justlookingfornow said:

Perhaps  that's because he does so few? Not to mention the press treats him a bit differently than the previous press briefings. 

Anyone with eyes can see the difference of both his far,few and in-between press time and his habit of answering few,if any questions. 

I wonder if the new press secretary will have to walk back his gaffes again? 

Before you came along, we discussed how Biden's handlers like to keep him from talking.  Many here defend that by saying he has expert professionals to get out his message for him.  In other words, people who are more qualified to speak for him than he is.  

Yes, the press treats this administration much different than Trump.  No surprise there.

In reading more about the new press secretary,  I learned she in the past has called Fox a racist organization.  I guess in addition to checking off some boxes for the woke crowd, that further qualified her for the job.

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45 minutes ago, Beerman said:

As Just Looking mentioned, the Republicans haven't said more qualified white person.

This us a great example of how identity politics and the rhetoric in support of it is working for the Democrats. 

I wasn't quoting Just Looking.  I said it off the top of my head.  

It was a tongue and cheek response to your silly statement "I'm sure the search is already underway for the first immigrant transgender press secretary for when this one gets tired of covering for Biden's misstatements and gaffes. "

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6 hours ago, Justlookingfornow said:

Except Republicans didn't say anything about  any qualified"white person", only that others may have more qualifications and skin color should not be a consideration. In reference to Justice Jackson,  Biden made it clear the specific color and gender of who he will nominate. The "others"included anyone who wasn't a black woman. Not even a chance. 

This is true.  Cruz when Biden said that called it racial discrimination against 94% of the population...meaning males and people of all colors.  

Like I said, we've already discussed this and I'm not going to rehash it.

I said as I indicated above as more a tongue and cheek statement.  But it's also based on what I hear about white people feeling discriminated against.  

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Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The findings, say the authors, show that America has not achieved the "post-racial" society that some predicted in the wake of Barack Obama's election.

https://www.socialworktoday.com/news/dn_060311.shtml

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52 minutes ago, Beerman said:

As Just Looking mentioned, the Republicans haven't said more qualified white person.

This us a great example of how identity politics and the rhetoric in support of it is working for the Democrats. 

Sure... in your conservative republican opinion. 

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-rise-of-white-identity-politics-explains-the-fight-over-critical-race-theory/

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/11/01/identity-politics-are-stronger-on-the-right-than-the-left

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I do confess that when Beerman mentioned "identity politics" I did have to look more into it.  

I guess when I participate in Pride, I'm engaging in identity politics.  As a gay man these issues are important to me.  Is that a bad thing?  I think we all engage in some sort of identity politics to an extent.  That it's spewed out as an insult reminds me that when the minority rises up the majority objects.  

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There’s another side to identity politics that you hear less about in the US, particularly white identity. This is by definition an identity, but it’s one that’s so widely assumed to be the norm in America that issues pertaining to white identity are typically not regarded as identity politics.

But it is a huge part of identity — and American — politics nonetheless. In one recent study of the 2016 election, UC Santa Barbara and Stanford University researchers told white voters that minority groups would outnumber white people in the US by 2042. They found that voters who strongly identified as white became significantly more likely to support Trump after they were reminded of the country’s shifting racial demographics.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/12/2/13718770/identity-politics

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