Chechnya, El Salvador, Malaysia, Tanzania. And as Chad said, transgender Americans are still under attack in state legislatures, and face an epidemic of violence that claims far too many of their lives each year.Īnd around the world, LGBTQ individuals face terror and torture. We should be reminding them, day in and day out, that that it is still possible, because they will not support it. I promise you, they don't know that that is possible. And here's what I want to remind you all: the American people are better than this. In 30 states, you can be fired if you're transgender.

In 28 states, you can still be fired for being gay. Today, we still don't have a federal law that explicitly protects LGBTQ from being fired or evicted or denied service at a restaurant. As I said, we're faced with an administration, and some of its most ardent right-wing supporters from the Ku Klux Klan - the head of the Ku Klux Klan has endorsed - and the alt-right, who are trying to undo all the progress you have made, and the little that Barack and I have made with you. But our work is not yet done, by any stretch of the imagination. Thanks to you, our children, my grandchildren will grow up in a world that's far more just, open-minded and humane. The section of the speech in question can be watched in full below: In order to provide the full context for Biden's 'dregs of society' remark, the following is a transcript of the relevant section of his speech, and the moments leading up to it, with especially relevant remarks highlighted in bold. Biden was speaking at an annual dinner for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ rights non-profit. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

The short clip posted by the Trump campaign was taken from a much longer speech that Biden gave on Sept. In the 2016 election, the Trump campaign capitalized on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's infamous claim that 'half' of Trump's supporters constituted a 'basket of deplorables.' The false attack on Biden - both in September 2018, when he made the remarks, and again in 2020 - appeared to be an attempt to create a similar narrative around Biden, who has pitched himself to voters as a moderate and unifying candidate. vice president was not referring to Trump supporters as a whole, but rather what he called 'the forces of intolerance' throughout the world and in the United States, in particular the Ku Klux Klan and the 'alt-right.' Viewed in proper context, it's clear that the former U.S. However, the Trump campaign's presentation of Biden's remarks was deeply misleading.

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