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Joe Biden Says African-Americans and Hispanics Don't Know How to Use the Cyberspace

Just like many aspects of America'southward response to the coronavirus pandemic, the left has turned the vaccine rollout into a political debate. Namely, information technology has spent its fourth dimension prioritizing race over proven health risks in determining who should receive the vaccine offset.

With his latest comment on the issue, President Joe Biden may take gone likewise far for his liberal allies.

"Not everybody in the Hispanic and the African-American community, peculiarly in rural areas that are distant and/or inner-metropolis districts, knows how to go online to determine how to get in line for that COVID vaccination," Biden said during a CNN town hall Tuesday dark at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee.

That sure sounded like the president was saying he believes sure minority groups don't know how to use the internet.

Marking Dice, a bourgeois media analyst and author of "Hollywood Propaganda," certainly took Biden's comments that way.

"Joe Biden says black people and Hispanics don't know how to use the Internet and can't figure out where to get the vaccine," he tweeted.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidelines advising states to prioritize race in their vaccine rollout plans.

"As a result, half of the nation's states have outlined plans that at present prioritize black, Hispanic and indigenous residents over white people in some manner, as the vaccine rollout begins," the Daily Mail reported in December, citing a Kaiser Family unit Foundation report.

In addition to the racist nature of those plans, Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro said they completely ignore scientific discipline and will likely crusade more deaths.

"Not but is this plain racist, it happens to engender policy that kills more than black people in absolute terms," he said in a syndicated cavalcade in December. "Historic period is a far better predictor of COVID-19 vulnerability than race: As Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe of the New York Academy Grossman School of Medicine found, infected patients dice at the same rate regardless of race."

Was President Biden'south suggestion that minorities tin't use the internet racist?

Yes: 98% (1836 Votes)

No: ii% (41 Votes)

"This means that if yous give tranches of the vaccine to patients based on racial concerns rather than historic period concerns, the most vulnerable black and Latino populations — elderly black people and Latinos — are more likely to die so that younger black and Latinos can receive a vaccine for a disease to which they are probably ten times less vulnerable."

One time again, nosotros see that the desire to be "woke" is blinding public wellness officials who intendance more than near their image than they do about saving the most lives possible.

In an apparent effort to defend the decision to prioritize minorities rather than the elderly, Biden has at present extended racial stereotypes and suggested that minorities cannot perform simple tasks online.

The president's claim is not only insulting only also imitation, according to a 2019 commodity by the Pew Inquiry Center. While Hispanics and African-Americans may be less likely to own a physical reckoner, they "have mobile devices such as smartphones in shares similar to whites," it said.

The Pew survey found that 82 pct of white adults, 80 pct of black adults and 79 percent of Hispanic adults said they owned a smartphone.

Furthermore, there are certainly elderly white adults who do not have cyberspace access. If Biden had said, "There are some elderly members of our community who don't know how to register for vaccines," that would have been more authentic and less racist.

Instead, he overtly singled out Hispanics and African-Americans. This is yet another example of the left prioritizing identity politics over human lives.

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Grant is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a bachelor'due south degree in journalism. He has five years of writing experience with various outlets and enjoys roofing politics and sports.

Grant is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a available's degree in journalism. He has 5 years of writing feel with diverse outlets and enjoys covering politics and sports.