The nice thing about having been chosen as the supposedly nonthreatening figurehead for the radical left is that you can get away with anything — even microaggressions that would result in a media firestorm if made by a Republican. For example, Joe Biden called his senior adviser Cedric Richmond “boy” during a FEMA briefing yesterday:

“I’m here with my senior adviser and boy who knows Louisiana very, very well and New Orleans, Cedric Richmond,” Biden said at a press briefing with FEMA after Hurricane Ida rocked Louisiana.

“Boy” is considered to be a racially derogatory term toward Black men.

It is unlikely that Biden meant any offense, but the rules are that intent is irrelevant. Just ask John Schnatter, who was destroyed when he used the forbidden n-word in the context of denouncing someone else for using it. At least Papa John didn’t call a 47-year-old black man “boy.”

On a tip from William B.