Ian Haworth: Qué? Jill Biden: Hispanics As “Unique” As Tacos

We’ve been told that First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, is smart. Like, super smart — she’s a doctor, after all.

Sure, she’s a doctor of education from the University of Delaware, but that didn’t stop Whoopi Goldberg from pitching her as surgeon general because she’s a “hell of a doctor”…

My least favorite characteristic among our political class — aside from the corruption, the deceit, and the sexual debauchery — is their determined propensity to pander to various communities.

Think Hillary Clinton telling black radio hosts that she always carries hot sauce in her bag, or Donald Trump celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a thumbs-up and a taco bowl, alongside the caption, “I love Hispanics!”

But at least Clinton and Trump did their research — even though the results of the research were stereotypical, even racist. The same cannot be said of Jill Biden, the most prominent emotionally-abusive spouse in the country.

On Monday, the First Lady delivered the headline speech at a “Latinx IncluXion Luncheon” in San Antonio, Texas, during which she said that Hispanics were as “unique” as tacos.

“Raul helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community, as distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, is your strength,” Biden said.

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Jill Biden just said Hispanics are as “unique” as tacos.

This isn’t Veep. Which White House speechwriter just won a bet for getting the First Lady to say something like this?

July 11th 2022

One quick side note: I’m British, and so I am genetically unable to speak any other world language (what’s the point of forcibly spreading the English language across the world during a few hundred years of imperialism if you can’t use it to your lazy advantage), but even I know that “bodega” is pronounced “bo-de-ga,” and not “bo-ge-da”…

Now, you’d think — given Biden’s educational prowess — she would have learned her lesson from the last time she tried to shamefully pander to the Hispanic community. Or, at the very least, switched the channel over to Univison for an afternoon.

Last year, Jill Biden spoke to California farmers (for some reason), and butchered the Spanish language yet again, botching the phrase, “si se puede.”

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Almost!

March 31st 2021

Fun fact: Jill Biden spoke in front of the official flag of the United Farm Workers of America, which features an eagle supposedly designed by Cesar Chavez’s brother, Richard Chavez, who “researched emblems, including cigarette boxes and Nazi flags, and concluded that the most potent color combination was red, black and white,” according to Smithsonian Magazine. 

Nazis, they’re so…potent!

Back to Jill Biden’s most recent speech — comparing Hispanics to tacos. While it’s certainly funny to laugh at the combined IQ of the Joe and Jill non-power couple, there is something deeper here: the fact that politicians see us as amorphous voting blocs, categorized only by irrelevant and immutable characteristics like race, and also so monumentally stupid that we will vote for the figure who is able to hastily Google-and-regurgitate even the smallest and most bizarre snapshot from our respective culture.

It’s time we demand more from those we elect to represent us. Not allowing them to compare people to Mexican sandwiches would be a start.

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