reactions from elsewhere.
[quote] I’m less insulted by linking brown people to unique tacos and the mispronunciation of bodegas as I am the generally awful structure of this sentence. Whoever wrote it for her didn’t include near enough wokespeak either. There should have been at least 5 more words along the line of culture, Latinx, disadvantaged, equity, and BIPOC. Finally, people like myself, who identify as non-binary breakfast burritos, were totally underrepresented in Jill’s remarks.
[quote] If you were a breakfast taco, which would you be? Barbacoa cos I’m cheeky.
[quote] I think the speechwriter attempted to go for something specific to the region, appreciative and funny, and came out with a clunker of a sentence. To me it's indicative of how much administration struggles with staffing and tone. It's really starting to feel like the Trump administration with chaos and people ready to pounce all over it.
[quote] When I read it was at a 'Latinx IncluXion' event I thought it was a joke. I'm baffled someone wrote this speech and that Jill Biden approved it.
[quote] My dear mother, who taught college-level English literature and composition, would have been appalled at Jill Biden's awkward simile. One of Mother's pet peeves was qualification of "unique". She taught me that "unique" is absolute. "Unique" means "one of a kind". A thing is either unique or it isn't. There's no such thing as "very unique" or "pretty unique".
[quote] She isn't as racist as her husband, but they just can't seem to get their message out without letting their racism show.
[quote] We’ve been living in a South Park episode ever since Trump announced his 2016 campaign.
[quote] remember that being better than Trump is a very low bar. Comparing every president to Trump for the next decade will keep the standards way too low. But we should never forget how bad it can be.
[quote] Dr Jill Biden has led a sheltered and privileged life. As a Hispanic, I've heard worse. At the same time, maybe it's past time we let a new generation lead the country. America has never been a monolith. But it's past time we pretended it ever was.
[quote] I could almost excuse it as good intentions if it wasn’t so damn tone deaf. She literally stereotyped them in the same sentence where she’s talking about how unique they are.
[quote] It's dumb, and I get why people don't like it, but you don't have to go far with presidents and their wives to find worse analogies
[quote] About right for someone who's married to "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids"
[quote] he Bidens and so many others are so out of touch with the community that they have no idea what to do or say. They live in a Washington bubble.
[quote] Next time you talk to our LatinX's, wear that sombrero you got from Chevy's on your birthday last year, that'll do the trick
[quote] TaXo reference didn’t go well at LatinX LunXheon? Are those LatinX racist?
[quote] It’s not what she said, it’s because again the first thing in her mind when talking about Hispanic American people is fucking tacos and bodegas. What the fuck is wrong with people?