Bernie Sanders has a race problem

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Bernie Sanders Has A Race Problem

And it’s not going away

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And it’s not going away

Bernie Sanders is dog whistling again. Scratch that. He’s not whistling; he’s bull-horning. While Democrats were registering new voters, pushing to get Democrats electing in the mid-terms, Bernie was campaigning for 2020. After the mid-terms, while Democrats made big gains in taking back the House of Representatives , electing Democrat governors, taking over state houses and passing initiatives including restoring the right to vote for 1.5 million ex-felons in Florida, Bernie was gloating over Democrats not taking back the Senate.

I was actually waiting for Bernie to hold a press conference and call out the losing campaigns from the mid-terms with claims that they didn’t “show him love” like Donald Trump did. Instead Bernie has decided to once again make excuses for White people supporting racists politicians like Ron DeSantis, Steve King, and Corey Stewart. In an interview with the Daily Beast, Sanders said “I think you know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American.”

She goes on with a bunch of examples to premise her argument and I agree with her. Bernie Sanders limited his campaign to white affluent areas in 2016 and did very poorly with minority voters. After his campaign was over, while doing as much harm as possible to Clinton's campaign, many of his supporters were switching sides to support Donald Trump and some of his most egregiously bigoted supporters on this forum were starting threads like the one Schuylaar made to blame black voters for his failure.

 

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Sanders:

I believe that the vast majority of the people of the world and of this country are living in a slave-like condition not terribly different from what existed in this country before the Civil War.

Bernie Sanders compared poor whites to slaves, apartheid South Africa

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has routinely compared poor whites in Vermont to US slaves and Africans living under apartheid, according to reports. Sanders, who is leading the pack of front-r…

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Sanders:

What about the 800 workers? They were informed about the sale four days before it was publicly announced. They were sold to the Swiss. No one asked them how they felt about it. They weren’t treated very differently from the way black people in this country were treated when there was slavery, basically, today, Vermont workers remain slaves in many, many ways

Sanders once likened poor whites to blacks under apartheid

The fact the decades-old remarks are surfacing now shows that desperation is setting in to stop him, his campaign responded.

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At the time of the remarks, Vermont was 99% white and less than 0.2% black.

 

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I'd be willing to bet that if I put this in here, it will be the only thing the morons actually try to focus on, since they have no response to the rest of this stuff. In any case, it's not an endorsement he should be embracing.

Bernie Sanders is embracing an endorsement from Joe Rogan, who's getting blasted for his past sexist and racist comments

Some Sanders supporters praised the candidate for reaching across the aisle, while others scorned him for accepting Rogan's support.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[UncleBuck]

One of his “supporters” says “Race matters when it comes to immigration, only 4% of immigrants are white “

Another of his “supporters” has a thread going right now about the same topic the alt right nazis are obsessed with and swears you can’t possibly reason with the far left

Another of his “supporters” says he has a lifelong dream of killing neo nazis but just months ago is on record crying about how wrong it is to kill nazis and how evil anti fascists are

I will not get into the racist things schuylaar, pada, and trump have said

 

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Famous Sanders Supporter:

it's not real racism, it's a joke

“It’s Not Real Racism, It’s a Joke” – Joe Rogan Responds to Controversy Over His Bernie Sanders Endorsement - Okayplayer

The podcast host took aim at news outlets and social media's "hate brigade" for their reaction to Sanders' embrace of his endorsement for president. Last week, both Joe Rogan and Bernie Sanders came under fire after the Vermont Senator posted a clip of the controversial podcast host praising the...

www.okayplayer.com

 

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One of his “supporters” says “Race matters when it comes to immigration, only 4% of immigrants are white “

Another of his “supporters” has a thread going right now about the same topic the alt right nazis are obsessed with and swears you can’t possibly reason with the far left

Another of his “supporters” says he has a lifelong dream of killing neo nazis but just months ago is on record crying about how wrong it is to kill nazis and how evil anti fascists are

I will not get into the racist things schuylaar, pada, and trump have said

I'm pretty sure if we just pretend racism doesn't exist, it will just go away and stop being a problem.

 

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Sanders remains remarkably awkward on the subject: when asked about the candidacies of Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Andrew Gillum in Florida, he declared that “there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American.” Symone Sanders, a strategist who worked for Bernie’s 2016 run, was puzzled by another recent comment that attempted to be high-minded yet came out sounding strangely demeaning. “He has this odd riff, about how candidates can’t just be a woman or a person of color,” she says. “Some people have said it’s tone-deaf—I think it’s a jab, and it’s not something that appeals to women or black voters.”

Bernie Sanders Is Already Repeating Some Crucial 2016 Mistakes

Sanders marched with King, and has decried Trump as a racist. But many political operatives suggest he’s out of touch when it comes to America’s conversations about race.

www.vanityfair.com

 

[Spoofer]

I like Bernie.

 

[Fogdog]

I like Bernie.

The aged patrician trope. Works for both him and Biden.

 

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Looks like Bernie has a misogyny problem too. Allowing misogyny to run rampant in the ranks of his campaign seems pretty bad to me, but I'm a man so I'll leave it to Clinton to identify it.

“I feel so bad that people got sucked into it,” Clinton said.

She also pointed to a “culture around” Sanders that she said perpetuated sexism, racism and misogyny within the senator’s campaign staff.

“It’s his leadership team,” she said. “It’s his prominent supporters. It’s his online Bernie bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.”

Hillary Clinton says 'nobody likes' Bernie Sanders and criticizes 'culture around' him

Clinton, who made the comments in a forthcoming documentary, said on Tuesday she would back any Democratic nominee

www.theguardian.com

 

[MidwestGorilla219]

Nothing worse than trying to fight somebody in godmode.

 

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I'm pretty sure if we just pretend bigotry doesn't exist it will go away.

 

[MidwestGorilla219]

Yea I'm pretty sure that is not a good plan bro.

 

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Yea I'm pretty sure that is not a good plan bro.

Seems like Bernie's plan.

 

[MidwestGorilla219]

Seems like Bernie's plan.

Oh and that reminds me, I have a pizza in the oven that needs my attention.

 

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Oh and that reminds me, I have a pizza in the oven that needs my attention.

So just turn the blinders about Bernie's race problem, got it.

 

[londonfog]

Bernie gets my vote right after Warren

 

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Bernie gets my vote right after Warren

A vote for Bernie is a vote for Trump.