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Slow Joe, Diversity, Foot

Slow Joe attempts to talk about diversity, sticks foot in mouth, via Ann Althouse [1]:

“What you all know that most people don’t know, unlike the African American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community, with incredibly different attitudes about different things,””What you all know that most people don’t know, unlike the African American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community, with incredibly different attitudes about different things,”

Comment by Professor Althouse:

I think what happened is that Biden, in cognitive decline, is losing the ability to maintain the boundary between what is said behind the scenes with his advisers and what is appropriate for speech to the general public.

I quibble with the Professor.  The concept of diversity, whatever it may be, is both ill-defined and explosive.  Thus it is a subject a smart politician may feign homage, but never discuss. And even in his better days in the lower half Syracuse Law, Slow Joe was never that smart.  Slow Joe may have been a closeted racist, but if he had only been smart enough to keep the door closed