2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It's Time to Look in the Mirror, Bernie: Sanders Needs to be Criticized for his Failed Theories [View all]XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Do you believe that Bernie or his white supporters are any more racist than a representative sample of white Clinton supporters?
Or sexist or homophobic?
'Cause I feel like there's this argument that goes something like: "Black people support Hillary. Therefore, if you oppose Hillary, you oppose Black people."
In a normal year with normal candidates, this would be bad enough, but bless me, I remember 2008 and I remember what the Hillary campaign said and did. I remember their dog whistles and their insisting that white votes matter, and I remember how well Hillary did in Appalachia, which is the whitest, most racist part of the country. I have links, if you want them.
You can make up your own mind, but I think the efforts of certain people to make Bernie supporters out as racist, sexist, homophobes are gross.
And the argument that turning the superdelegates away from Hillary is some George Wallace-type voter-disenfranchisement shenanigans is gross, too.