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Member Since: 11/14/2008
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There is a pattern -- demonstrated time and time again -- by both Sanders and some Sanders supporters of racial cluelessness, an infantilizing and almost colonial kind of condescension about policy, and a tendency to react to anyone who points that out by, well, supplying even more evidence of racial tone-deafness, self-ordained intellectual superiority and sometimes completely open displays of various forms of outright bigotry.
That's right. We said it. In trying to make their case, Sanders, and far more often some subset of his supporters, behave in ways that are difficult to square with their claims to progressive politics and building a more inclusive and egalitarian society.
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But the emails, Twitter messages and comments I have received tell a different story. They use a variety of curse words and insults typically reserved for women. More than one has suggested that I deserve to become the victim of a sex crime. They critique the "objectivity" of what is clearly political analysis based on polling data and other facts; they insist that black voters are dumb or that I have a personal obligation to help black voters see the error of their Clinton-voting ways. It is vile. And it stands in sharp contrast to the claim that no portion of Sanders supporters are angry people who sometimes engage in or embrace bigotry.
We could print the emails. But those of you who sent them know who you are and the horrendous things said. We doubt that this would do much for your progressive street cred.
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#MississippiBerning is not simply a clever play on words. This Twitter user's possible joke was arguably tasteless. "Mississippi Burning" is the name of a 1988 Oscar-nominated film that fictionalized real-life FBI efforts to solve and see prosecuted the 1964 killings of a trio of civil rights workers in Mississippi. The film also tried, in its own way, to make clear the organized domestic terrorism that any black person who attempted to vote or exercise other rights often faced. In short, for millions of black Americans, life in the South was only slightly different in 1964 than it was in 1864. This is not a time to celebrate.
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The myth of Bernie Bros.
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@ the racial insensitivity paragraphs. Surely she has something better to do wither time.
How long has this person been on social media? Are they unfamiliar with eggs and stan culture. 
serving Dangerous Woman