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Biden says it’s time for Americans to ‘speak up’ because ‘diversity’s being attacked’

President Biden on Monday said that all Americans must speak up because diversity is being attacked, remarks he made while marking 60 years of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

The event comes just days after a deadly shooting in Jacksonville, Fla., killed three Black Americans, which is suspected to be racially motivated. The president bashed attacks on diversity such as book bans, which are happening in states including Florida and are targeting books about slavery and Black history, among other topics.

“Now is the time for all Americans to speak up when history’s being erased, books are being banned. Did you ever think we’d have this conversation here, at this time?” Biden said in remarks. “Diversity’s being attacked.”

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We are, ya assholes!
- Meanwhile, how much federal government money is being handed over by Biden's Education Department to the state of Florida so they have the resources to keep telling students slavery was actually a good thing for black people?
  
  Would you rather they play hostage with the funding instead? The kids already have a lot of shit to deal with, cutting funding completely would hit the bad schools and the good ones.
Incredible to what lengths those in charge will go to shift responsibility away from themselves and their colleagues who are the only ones with the power to actually do anything (within the system they designed that way, because apparently this needs saying - the solution is outside of their system), and on to the people they've trapped in this exploitative and oppressive system of theirs...
“Now is the time for all Americans to speak up when history’s being erased, books are being banned.
As if they haven't, as if they don't get shot and jailed when they do, as if anyone in his position has listened when people have been warning for decades that fascism is building power
Did you ever think we’d have this conversation here, at this time?”
The fact that he hasn't and that all this seems to have somehow snuck up on him is more proof than anyone could ever need that he hasn't been paying even the slightest bit of attention because he simply doesn't give a shit about you (nor about the book burnings nor the diversity he's only now realised is under attack).
- Would be nice if he would state the obvious: that the GOP has embraced white supremacy (for the last 50 years), now very much overtly, and its leaders regularly incite violence and espouse intolerance and that the solution isn't to compromise with them or appease them but to beat them back (politically) into the shadows.
  
  Lmfao, "hyperbole" my ass...
  Politicians lie
  He's literally reading a script written to him by someone that probably wasn't even allowed in the room while he read it.
  Do you seriously think he's doing anything but parrot back words from a page???
  🤦‍♀️
  I'm just going to edit these in here, because this whole thing, the article, and OP's bootlick-y reply, are a perfect demonstration of the points these articles make:
  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/american-democracy-was-never-designed-to-be-democratic-eric-holder-our-unfinished-march-nick-seabrook-one-person-one-vote-jacob-grumbach-laboratories-against-democracy
  https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/
  https://blacklikemao.medium.com/how-liberalism-helps-fascism-d4dbdcb199d9
  https://truthout.org/articles/fascism-is-possible-not-in-spite-of-liberal-capitalism-but-because-of-it/
  https://nyanarchist.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/scratch-a-liberal-a-fascist-bleeds-how-the-so-called-middle-class-has-enabled-oppression-for-centuries/
- who are the only ones with the power to actually do anything
  That’s absolutely not the case. Every day people have the power to stand up for it in conversations over the kitchen table, at work and in the community
  
  I agree, and that is why the right-wing has sought to brainwash and isolate its followers, as any good cult does, to make intercession much more difficult, to prevent its faithful from questioning their errant beliefs.
- Biden is clueless and hasn't done shit for the average person. And damn sure Biden guy behind stop the busing doesn't give two shits about blacks unless its hurting his chances at reelection.
  He hasn't done shit to stop states from busing migrants which the federal government should be easily put stop too.
  Plus he wants more money for the police which we all know is captured by white supremacy.
  And his administration hasn't said word one on cop city.
  He can shut the fuck up because people have protested every time this happens which is almost everyday he doesn't say shit.
  
  Biden is clueless and hasn’t done shit for the average person. And damn sure Biden guy behind stop the busing doesn’t give two shits about blacks unless its hurting his chances at reelection.
  Idk you can like or hate him but he's done a lot of stuff. See: The horribly named inflation reduction act.
- There is quite a jump in quality of information depending on the source, and books generally have a much higher quality. Books are hardly obsolete.
  
  Physical books. If you can get digital copies of the books, banning the physical book is meaningless.
- It still makes it more difficult to access these things. People have to figure out how and where exactly to find the book online - going into a library is much simpler if you've never done that. It's not about 100% banning it, just about reducing the amount of people who have access.
- Right, like what are they gonna do, censor the INTERNET?!
  Good luck, ya nerds. You'll never take my Napster away from me.
Books are antiquated tech, what's far more concerning is corporations banning content and discussions on the internet.

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