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2016 Postmortem

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applegrove

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Sun Feb 7, 2016, 09:08 PM Feb 2016

Bernie Sanders Tells Berniebros To Knock It Off — ‘We Don’t Want That Crap’ [View all]

Bernie Sanders Tells Berniebros To Knock It Off — ‘We Don’t Want That Crap’

by Ian Millhiser at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/07/3746988/bernie-sanders-tells-berniebros-to-knock-it-off-we-dont-want-that-crap/

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had a terse message for any of his supporters who engage in online harassment: “We don’t want that crap.” He told CNN on Sunday that the so-called “Berniebro” phenomenon is “disgusting” and that “anybody who is supporting me that is doing the sexist things — we don’t want them.”

The “Berniebro” phenomenon, where a mob of online Sanders supporters attack politicians and writers who express views critical of the Vermont senator or supportive of his Democratic rival Secretary Hilary Clinton, launched numerous thinkpieces from journalists unfortunate enough to encounter them online. At their worst, Berniebros have accused Clinton supporters of voting “based on who had the vagina” and have invented novel sexist terms such as “clitrash.”

Meanwhile, the Sanders campaign has engaged in an escalating series of tactics trying to convince the Berniebros to cut it out. Sanders’ rapid response director asked the senator’s supporters to chill on Twitter:




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BernieBros Say "No" 72DejaVu Feb 2016 #1
So says a Hillary supporter. ... which is probably what most "BernieBros" are 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #3
Paranoid. okasha Feb 2016 #6
Just like Bernie supporters were "paranoid" about Iowa caucus skullduggery. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #9
Silence? okasha Feb 2016 #12
I'm not "continuing" anything 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #14
Plural "you." okasha Feb 2016 #17
I'll need to be going now. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #18
Ta. okasha Feb 2016 #20
"the Senator himself has called cease and desist" <--which only shows.. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #25
Just click the red x. You can't reason with some people. trillion Feb 2016 #35
I thought you were going.. ... okasha Feb 2016 #36
Excuse me? I never said Hillary has anything like the Bros. Nor would I. trillion Feb 2016 #39
What a shame. okasha Feb 2016 #67
Bernie did not take the initiative-instead he waited months to be called out on national TV riversedge Feb 2016 #56
So when Bernie doesn't call "BernieBros" out thats "bad" and when he does, that's "bad" too. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #57
I've got good news for you, friend! 72DejaVu Feb 2016 #7
Clinton-Shilling Journalists Should Stop Slamming the Bernie Bros 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #11
You are free to believe what you want 72DejaVu Feb 2016 #15
Fair enough. nt 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #16
"Uniquely malicious" exists right here on DU. Right now. blue neen Feb 2016 #31
+10000. And I'm apalled as usual about her using the gender card. trillion Feb 2016 #42
I can't help but guess this is how some of that super pac money is being used - getting writers to trillion Feb 2016 #40
Yea, sure Bernie. They will do just that. leftofcool Feb 2016 #2
Too little, too late. nt LexVegas Feb 2016 #4
That is what I would say about the latest sadoldgirl Feb 2016 #24
You can say it but it doesn't compare. It's way off. Nt stevenleser Feb 2016 #62
Way too late. As in six months too late. He let his supporters and thus his campaign stevenleser Feb 2016 #61
Rejoice! Judging by that description, it appears very few DU Sanders supporters are "Berniebros" whatchamacallit Feb 2016 #5
Both the sexism AND the racism is absolutely astonishing...from BOTH sides!!!! Liberal_Stalwart71 Feb 2016 #8
GOP paid trolls. applegrove Feb 2016 #10
I think a lot of them are Andy823 Feb 2016 #30
+100 They also started the race war and feminism war applegrove Feb 2016 #33
Can you give an example of an issue were people are againt Obama trillion Feb 2016 #43
I think the same thing Andy823 Feb 2016 #68
NOT GOOD ENOUGH, BERNIE !! Hiraeth Feb 2016 #13
Okay, what MORE can he do? trillion Feb 2016 #45
Sarcasm. Never mind Hiraeth Feb 2016 #58
bernie says knock it off saturnsring Feb 2016 #19
His fans are going to ignore him. okasha Feb 2016 #22
He must be a tool Empowerer Feb 2016 #37
Thus showing what Bernies leadership abilities really are or rather aren't. Nt stevenleser Feb 2016 #74
'Berniebro's' don't exist AgingAmerican Feb 2016 #21
Bernie seems to think they do . . . Empowerer Feb 2016 #38
There is no such thing AgingAmerican Feb 2016 #41
Take it up with your candidate for President who acknowledged both that they stevenleser Feb 2016 #63
It's a phony meme made up by a resentful Hillary supporter AgingAmerican Feb 2016 #69
Again, take it up with your candidate for President who both acknowledged they exist stevenleser Feb 2016 #70
Pitter Pat! AgingAmerican Feb 2016 #71
Indeed. At some point you will realize you are arguing against Bernie, not me. Nt stevenleser Feb 2016 #72
Does that make you a Hillbot? AgingAmerican Feb 2016 #79
Berniebros sounds like a Clinton Machine dirty trick. n/t Skwmom Feb 2016 #23
Uh huh... MrWendel Feb 2016 #26
Put on your tinfoil hat: The Clintons do no engage in political dirty tricks. Skwmom Feb 2016 #32
do no? MrWendel Feb 2016 #51
So now Bernie is a dirty trick of The Clintons? stevenleser Feb 2016 #59
making up Jenny_92808 Feb 2016 #27
You just accused Bernie of making stuff up. Nt stevenleser Feb 2016 #65
heh, sounds like what I just posted on a jury for a nasty post aimed at Clinton Kali Feb 2016 #28
I'm with Bern but the vote for me because I'm a woman? Really? snowy owl Feb 2016 #29
Good for Bernie for calling it to end. trillion Feb 2016 #34
You would think that the Hillary Clinton campaign Aerows Feb 2016 #44
x 1000000 AtomicKitten Feb 2016 #47
I find it interesting that this OP is about Bernie acknowledging problematic supporters stevenleser Feb 2016 #64
Well it is about time Tarc Feb 2016 #46
"BernieBros" are two things. backscatter712 Feb 2016 #48
Refresher Course Aerows Feb 2016 #49
+1,000,000!!! cui bono Feb 2016 #50
I must say Aerows Feb 2016 #52
" voting for the vagina" I've seen that here on Du more than once. Lil Missy Feb 2016 #53
After all that time Greenwald spent screaming that "BernieBros" were a myth... Blue_Tires Feb 2016 #54
Yes. Bernie is one good egg. applegrove Feb 2016 #55
Once again Greenwald shows how wrong he is about things. The guy who he was stevenleser Feb 2016 #60
I guess it's not a myth after all. NurseJackie Feb 2016 #66
It's one of the funniest things ever to happen on DU. Bernie acknowledges stevenleser Feb 2016 #73
Cognitive dissonance. okasha Feb 2016 #75
So true. applegrove Feb 2016 #81
I love Bernie Sanders... handmade34 Feb 2016 #76
This article is crap. azmom Feb 2016 #77
Bevis, he said "crap" -- heh, heh, heh,heh Armstead Feb 2016 #78
"We don't want that crap." Frankenstein: betsuni Feb 2016 #80
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