Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: If we are going to go back decades to find issues on [View all]Politicub
(12,165 posts)need to think about what they are saying when they try to stop the poo slinging.
I say this because people start defending the content of what a candidate said even if they claim he didn't say it. This is happening right now on DU about some comments Biden made or didn't make at a gay rights fundraiser in 2014.
Biden may have misspoke then. Maybe he didn't. Maybe the media didn't report it verbatim. Maybe it was a media hit job.
That's not the core issue. The defense of Biden became a problem because people are on the thread talking about how it wasn't a big deal xx number of years ago that certain behavior was okay. This makes people (me) defensive because I have been the brunt of what people are defending. It has gone from defending Biden -- who could have misspoke or who did not say anything at all -- to posters saying making fun of someone was okay xx number of years ago. Does this make sense?
Empathy. It all goes back to empathy. If people would just acknowledge that making fun people was simply wrong and not tie themselves in knots to make it seem like it was okay, the issue would go away quickly. It's no longer just a Biden problem once people start defending the indefensible. That's a different issue than poo slinging.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden