Why can't he stop insulting them

[Dill]

(10-07-2020, 04:10 PM)bfine32 Wrote: The history of Joe Biden insulting minorities spans well over 40 years and continues to the day. Below are a few examples. So my question is Why can't he stop:

First hypothesis: he's undisciplined (like Trump, but in lesser degree), and so has always been a gaff machine. So likely he, like Trump, cannot learn from past mistakes; and so can't really control it. Mix that undiscipline with racial stereotypes absorbed in the 60s and 70s, and you are going to get gaffs about "articulate" African-Americans and "poor children" who don't have the same advantages as white. Should he win the presidency, these will continue, perhaps more frequently as his mental acuity deteriorates.

Second hypothesis: Possibly he thinks that spontaneity is a better look than polish and calculation, worth the risk. So he turns off the filter and mimics an Indian on the telephone or gets "down home" using rhetorical formulas like like "you ain't Black if . . . . "  

Third hypothesis: Bpat has enabled him to continue for 40 years via ad misercordiam and other fallacies in defense. If this hypothesis is correct, you stop Bpat and you stop Biden's gaffs. It's that simple.

Having answered your question, I add that all the listed insults are not "insults." At least one appears to insult, not Asians, but "Americans" in general, the way they lump Asians together; thus criticizing Americans in general for thinking in racial stereotypes (which criticism qualifies as "real" racism).  Not sure any reference to race at all is necessarily insulting. But some of Biden's are, more than one, and that's all you need for your "forest".

Biden's actual insults are the result of thinking in stereotypes while trying to explain policy. That's why poor kids are contrasted to "white" or Obama is a "mainstream African American" or the Latino Community is incredibly diverse compared to the African American (which it might indeed be depending upon one's metrics).  

Nothing here has the social impact of retweets from white supremacist organizations, though, so Biden will never pay much of a price for these gaffs among his potential voters.  White voters who don't think they are racist make the same gaffs themselves, and black voters who decry racism in whites will tolerate them from someone who helped elect and served under a black president, has been accessible, and has compiled a a record of support for civil rights issues that count now.  Out of political necessity, the majority of African American voters reject real racists, but not "real" racists.