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Here are his exact words...
"You all know where the phrase ‘rule of thumb’ means? Where it’s derived from? In English common law, not codification of it, common law, back in the late 1300s, so many women were dying at the hands of their husbands because they were “chattle” like the cattle or the sheep – that the court of common law had to do something about the extent of the deaths, so you know what they said? No man has the right to chastise his woman with a rod thicker than the circumference of his thumb. This is English jurisprudential culture. A white man’s culture. It’s gotta change."
First, this thumb rule has been widely debunked. Second, does Biden seriously think that things haven't changed since the 1300's in western culture?
Go ahead Spence, tell me that I'm taking this out of context.
He didn't say this "was" the culture. He said it "is" the culture.
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