She does do ethnic jokes... and slurs:
What's going on here is somewhat clear to me.
First of all I have a liberal aunt/uncle pair who have been in education as well as other liberal causes their entire lives. I can vividly being in their house about 3 years ago or so, and they made this *exact* argument to me i.e. we can't have vouchers because they might be used to send someone to a KKK school or whatever. So this "argument" has clearly been floating around in education circles for a reasonably long period of time and is probably routinely pulled out and dusted off when need be. Missus clinton probably heard this argument and decided to use it making it sound like she had thought it up.
What is more curious to me is her delivery. It is told in the *exact* same format as you might tell an ethnic joke. If you go back an listen, some of the internal cadences resemble an ethnic joke. She's making a policy argument but the rhythm, the cadences, the sonata form is as if she were saying "Catholic, Jew, White Supremacicist and Jihadist walk into a bar".
Usally these jokes are told with 3 examples, the first two for the setup, and the last one for the punchline. In her case she has 2 setup and 2 punchline. Which has its own disconcerting effect as we're not used to 2 punchlines!
But again, this is Yet Another demonstration of her political tone deafness - this is not the cadence of political speech - this is the cadence of someone telling a bad ethnic joke and one in which the audience just wishes they were somewhere's else.
One gets the feeling that she tells a lot of these jokes, tells them poorly, but woe be unto Those Who Will Not Laugh.
You vill hear ze joke and you vill like it, jah?
She does do ethnic jokes... and slurs:
BTTT
I can't recall anyone who ever met Hillary remarking on her sense of humor.
Something had been bothering me ever since I first heard this clip. The whiff of racism was undeniable, but it seemed to exceed the actual words.
You nailed it. The form and cadence of an ethnic joke. Very insightful! Thanx.
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interesting take