I'm at a loss for words. Did this really happen?

[mcar]

Link to tweet

?s=20

Imagine if Biden said “walkin’ around the hood” and then did that impression.

It would be a scandal for days.

[BusyBeingBest]

1. Aww, come on. He's just having fun with the folks he's talking to, they

don't seem to mind.

[NurseJackie]

3. They're being uncomfortably polite.

[BusyBeingBest]

7. Maybe. But in the pantheon of offensive gestures, I don't think

this really rates at all. He's just imitating the kids with their boom boxes. Seemed good natured.

[mcar]

89. Isn't that an 80s thing?

[BusyBeingBest]

93. I would think. Hoisting your boom box on your shoulder--

black kids and white kids--has been a thing since the 80's. I was a teenager then.

[JustAnotherGen]

177. It's called an iphone and the earpods

Are itsy bitsy tiny things - but yaaaah! He's in touch with the youth!

[Generic Brad]

106. Bernie is not the old - almost - but not yet

I'l call it a 70s thing.

[mcar]

107. I've lost track

[True Blue American]

183. Yeah!

40 years ago kids had Boom Boxes!

Today they have wireless ear buds! Talk about behind the times!

[thesquanderer]

8. That sounded like genuine laughter to me. (n/t)

[NurseJackie]

11. Nervous laughter. Eye rolling laughter.

[NurseJackie]

18. I know what I saw. It was racist.

[NurseJackie]

22. Not at all. It was offensive.

[NurseJackie]

2. Is that racist? Looks racist to me. Is it?

[TheFarseer]

24. Only as racist as

John Cusack in Say Anything

[TheFarseer]

33. At least 20 years ago

Admittedly he should not do that again!

[TheFarseer]

38. Totally

I blame whoever gave him the boom box. I’m guessing he doesn’t carry that with him everywhere he goes.

[ehrnst]

141. Or hires an all white all male reggae band for his candidacy announcement...

[TexasTowelie]

117. I actually encountered this less than a year ago.

There was a black guy that walked through the apartment complex at 6 a.m. where I lived with a boom box at loud volume. He did it for three or four days before it finally stopped. I guess that someone else got upset about it and told the young man to hold down the noise. I don't know if they asked politely or threatened him, but considering the people that lived in the apartment complex I wouldn't be surprised if it was a threat.

[mcar]

90. Isn't that an 80s movie?

[TheFarseer]

120. 1989 - just made the cut to be 80's

[thesquanderer]

110. There was also this classic Star Trek scene...

https://m.

[mcar]

114. Loved that scene

[JustAnotherGen]

179. I was in high school then

I turned 47 two weeks ago.

And John Cusack was in a suburban setting in that flick.

[catbyte]

180. Seriously? I don't recall John Cusack swaggering around, imitating a "bro in the hood" in that scene

[sammythecat]

125. No. It's not

ffs.

[Kurt V.]

4. i can't imagine it. Biden doesn't live that

[yaesu]

5. that is one cool boombox! nt

[thesquanderer]

6. It depends on the audience. And considering the AA guy laughing at the end and...

...all the other laughter in the room, I think this audience was probably not offended. And unlike us, they know the full context, too.

Political correctness gone amok. Why do some people feel they must express outrage on behalf of other people?

[oldsoftie]

12. You're kidding, right? It happens ALL the time! Outrage for people who dont express it.

I guess its the new "thing"

[Ferrets are Cool]

28. Really?? So it depends on the audience?

It is a racist action, pure and simple. Whether it is in front of a AA audience or a KKK audience. And since when is "IT" ok just because someone laughs at it?

So? There should be LESS "political correctness" in the world? The world isn't anywhere close to being flooded with PC.

[thesquanderer]

30. I'm fine with agreeing to disagree here. (n/t)

[NurseJackie]

133. And the women in my office "laughed" when our boss would make sexist jokes...

... even though we knew it was sexist, even though we were offended. In specific situations, it's not always the best idea to express disapproval.

Political correctness gone amok.

No not really... I think it's just a simple matter of some people having higher moral and ethical standards than others. That's all. Nothing is "amok" about it.

Why do some people feel they must express outrage on behalf of other people?

I think the more relevant question is: Why do some people feel that the outrage being expressed "on behalf of other people," and not on behalf of those expressing it in the first place?

[thesquanderer]

135. re: "And the women in my office 'laughed' when our boss would make sexist jokes..."

I didn't say the laughter in and of itself meant it was fine...but, personally, I hear genuine laughter there, not a kind that could alternately be interpreted as possibly "uncomfortable" or "forced" laughter. That's why my earlier comment was that it sounded genuine to me. The type of laughter does matter, I think we agree on that.

Maybe someone will find out where this was and ask them, so people don't have to assume anything. But if they weren't offended, my opinion is there's no reason to be offended on their behalf.

But even you weren't sure. In post # 2, you hadn't made up your mind, asking, "Is that racist? Looks racist to me. Is it?" Yet by post #18, it changed to "I know what I saw. It was racist." What happened in the interim to convince you?

re:

I think it's just a simple matter of some people having higher moral and ethical standards than others. That's all. Nothing is "amok" about it.

Unnecessary personal insult noted.

re:

I think the more relevant question is: Why do some people feel that the outrage being expressed "on behalf of other people," and not on behalf of those expressing it in the first place?

Maybe it's too early in the morning, but I'm not quite getting the point there.

[NurseJackie]

136. Sigh.

What happened in the interim to convince you?

I was convinced from the beginning. It was a query intended to be a "conversation starter". Get it?

but, personally, I hear genuine laughter there,

I guess people hear what they want to hear, if they are unwilling to look beyond the superficial "laugh-track of life" that lets people get through the day without conflict. Whatever.

Unnecessary personal insult noted.

Oh please. GMAFB. No insult. I'm pointing out an obvious difference. I'm less tolerant than other people are when it comes to matters of this nature.

But if they weren't offended, my opinion is there's no reason to be offended on their behalf.

Only on my own behalf, thank you very much. Why presume otherwise? Hmm?

but I'm not quite getting the point there.

The outrage I'm expressing isn't "on behalf of other people" it's on behalf of myself. Get it now? No? Have another cup of coffee.

[thesquanderer]

145. Sigh indeed.

re:

I was convinced from the beginning. It was a query intended to be a "conversation starter". Get it?

So it wasn't a real question you were asking, got it. Though I don't know why you would expect everyone to read it that way. "Is that racist? Looks racist to me. Is it?" which was the entirety of the message reads like a legitimate inquiry to me. So I don't see where the dismissive "get-it?/eyeroll" was called for.

re:

I guess people hear what they want to hear

I guess I'm surprised the laughter doesn't sound as spontaneous and genuine to you as it does to me, but, yeah, we agree, I guess people hear what they want to hear! That said, I'll also grant the possibility that there were a good number of people in the room, and we're hearing only the laughter of a few who were genuinely amused, while not hearing the others who were silent or laughing only minimally/politely.

re:

The outrage I'm expressing isn't "on behalf of other people" it's on behalf of myself. Get it now? No? Have another cup of coffee.

Again, uncalled for snark. But at least your explanation here makes sense. Your original version was a bit of word salad, as it was not actually a grammatical sentence, though it probbly made sense if you already knew what you were trying to say.

Anyway, back to the point, I'd put forth that it is not as clearly offensive as you seem to think it is, even if only on the basis of the sheer number of people here who have disagreed with your viewpoint (and no, they are not all Sanders supporters). I'd be surprised if wider dissemination of this clip would actually drive down his AA support. I think it's just another anti-Bernie pointless distraction, which will not contribute to changing anyone's mind about him one way or the other.

[NurseJackie]

147. It was a real question.

So it wasn't a real question you were asking, got it.

It was a real question. Of course it was. It was simply that you interpreted its purpose incorrectly. Don't blame me.

Though I don't know why you would expect everyone to read it that way.

And I don't know why you wouldn't. Oh well. Why is it so important to you. Why are you fixated on that one element? Do you think that there's some advantage to be gained by hyper-parsing my words and phrases in the hopes of discovering some deep and dark and nefarious hidden meanings or intentions? GMAFB, would ya?

Again, uncalled for snark

No snark. Hey, you're the one who first mentioned that "Maybe it's too early in the morning" for you. I'm simply going along with your own self-assessment. And for that you snap at me? Thanks a lot! I don't deserve that.

our original version was a bit of word salad, as it was not actually a grammatical sentence,

No need to insult my intelligence like that. Uncalled for snark! (Oh me! Oh my! How dare you? I'm very delicate! You're hurting my feelings!)

I'd be surprised if wider dissemination of this clip would actually drive down his AA support.

I wouldn't. Not among the "hard core" supporters and defenders, however.

I think it's just another anti-Bernie pointless distraction,

Yes, that seems to be the talking point being used by his fans and defenders.

[thesquanderer]

152. two things

re:

It was a real question. Of course it was.

Well sure, to the extent that it ended with a question mark, it was a real question. But the point is you weren't really asking if it was racist, which is what I thought you were asking (because literally, that was the question you typed). In fact, as you've later explained, you'd already decided that it definitely was racist. But that was not clear in reading that original post #2. Certainly not to me, anyway.

re:

No need to insult my intelligence like that.

There was no insult to your intelligence there. Literally, it was an ungrammatical sentence, which is why I had a hard time understanding it until you explained. Pointing out that a sentence didn't actually make sense as typed is not an insult to someone's intelligence.

Anyway, I'm done here.

[NurseJackie]

153. Of course I was. Take it at face value or not. It's no skin off my nose...

But the point is you weren't really asking if it was racist,

Of course I was. Take it at face value or not. It's no skin off my nose if you want to believe me or not. I suppose it's easier for someone to get bogged down in these types hair-splitting, imagined intent, grammar, and other forms of irrelevant hyper-analysis as a way to distract from that which they'd rather not talk about in the first place. Those efforts did not go unnoticed by me.

There was no insult to your intelligence there.

I know. Of course not! I was making fun of the times I was accused of unnecessary snark. Whoosh!

Anyway, I'm done here.

Oh well. Suit yourself. I hope I can hold you to that.

[True Blue American]

184. My best friend

A Nurse was just talking about what went on at the Nurses Station. And which Doctor was chasing which Nurse, or the other way around.

There is a huge difference between rape,harassing,etc. and interacting.

[lunasun]

92. + 1 There is a maniac narcissistic criminal in the WH . I will save my outrage for that happening

[LizBeth]

10. It is old white privileged man goin back to the 70's thinking he is cool.

It is an old white mans perception of the black culture. It is a fail.

[NurseJackie]

13. Offensive. Stereotype ridicule.

What is wrong with him?

[LizBeth]

14. "What is wrong with him?" He is an old white privileged man.

[NurseJackie]

15. It's so embarrassing.

[LizBeth]

49. Sanders was born in Brooklyn NY

[LizBeth]

57. White educated man in the 50's and 60's is about as privileged as it gets. The only thing

he didn't have was money being from middle class, not poor. But he did have an education from a very good University.

[LizBeth]

59. Facts are not good faith, lol?

[ehrnst]

137. You mean like someone presenting themselves as "undecided"

when they clearly are 300% behind one candidate?

Like that?

[melman]

154. Yeah it's almost like someone presenting themselves as a supporter of one candidate

..when everything they post shows they could not possibly support that candidate.


Who knows why people would do these things. It's just a crazy world.

[ehrnst]

155. Well, it's apparently enough to make them self-delete all their posts.

[MrsCoffee]

189. They disrupted poorly.

After telling us we ain’t seen nothing yet.

[ehrnst]

143. You have time to rack up 250+ posts in 24 hours...

[ehrnst]

146. And his son and the mother of his child were on Medicaid and food stamps

While he had a college degree, and he was unemployed running for office on the Liberty Union Party ticket and getting 14% of the vote.

https://vtdigger.org/2015/07/09/bernie-sanders-early-days-in-vermont-his-life-loves-and-circuitous-route-to-politics/

[LizBeth]

148. And he was not providing child support. That is going to bother a lot of people.

[ehrnst]

149. Yep. And this was after his much vaunted arrest in college, and March with MLK.

So he can't say it was "too long ago" to be relevant.

[LizBeth]

150. Lol, true that. But a man's character is wrapped around how he takes care of his child.

Or not take care of his child. How long ago is irrelevant.

I read Sharpton say he went down south to fight the civil rights movement. I have never heard that Sanders went further south than MLK march of 250k people in Washington. Do you know of anytime Sanders went to the south to fight in the civil rights movement?

[ehrnst]

156. According to a piece on him in an independent Vermont newspaper, once he got to Vermont,

he stayed in Vermont. He traveled Europe with his girlfriend for awhile during the height of the Vietnam war protests, but that's about it.

He was broke or unemployed most of his ltime there before he became Mayor of Burlington.

https://vtdigger.org/2015/07/09/bernie-sanders-early-days-in-vermont-his-life-loves-and-circuitous-route-to-politics/

[LizBeth]

157. This is what I have read over the years and why I was surprised it was being stated Sanders

was in the south fighting for civil rights movement and being arrested.

[ehrnst]

158. That was in Chicago during college. (nt)

[LizBeth]

159. That is what I read. I think I read S Chicago, but the would not being going to the south to fight

in the civil rights movement where people were beaten up and killed. Dogs and water hoses. I do not think it is fair to state Sanders was in that when instead it was a University protest and he was treated with kids gloves. That is offensive. I mean, good for him for going out there and chaining himself to a black woman fighting for I believe blacks being able to rent apartments. That is excellent and thank you Sanders for being insightful and willing to participate. But that battle was not close to being what the South was at the time.

[ehrnst]

138. And he once said that it was immoral for millionaires to serve in the Senate.

[Sympthsical]

31. He's making fun of a 1980s stereotype

It was a stereotype for a reason. It has been featured in countless movies over the years based in the era.

Hell, I live in East Bay SF. Do you know how many black people I see now with portable speakers in parks and in the baskets on their bikes, blaring whatever for all the public to hear?

Countless. I just don’t care. Seems a cultural thing (and I’m sure someone can enlighten me about how that became a thing). I walk home from from work and read in a park for an hour a day. Black patrons found a plug in a light poll and play their speaker all day. So what?

Bernie was funning. And all the usual haters are, “So offensive!” No one’s offended. Just you pretending to be.

[NurseJackie]

35. Racist optics.

"funning" ??

[Sympthsical]

39. I'm the whitest person in my social group

I hang out with Latinos, African Americans, and Asians all day, both socially and professionally. I haven’t dated a white man in over a decade.

Please call me racist. I want to see you manage it.

[NurseJackie]

42. LOL

[Sympthsical]

47. Who's the racist

My life is actually racially diverse. You just complain and suppose things about minorities.

[NurseJackie]

52. Oh. Good for you!

[mcar]

96. Huh?

You just complain and suppose things about minorities.

[ismnotwasm]

121. Unfortunately racism doesn't care or spare, say, white mothers of children of color

Or Being Friends with, Latinos, Hispanics and members of the Pan-Asian community. It doesn’t care or spare when one is having a relationship with someone not white. Racism exists in the social structure of whiteness, and there it hides. Or not. Depends on the situation.

That’s why Saying “some of my best friends are Black” became a mocking code for a particular type of clueless racism many years ago

[NurseJackie]

46. Of course. Naturally.

[mcar]

97. Here it is

[cwydro]

123. And light "poll?"

[mcar]

95. Making fun. Right.

Ha ha.

[ehrnst]

185. Indeed. Imagine if this was ANY other candidate.

[NYMinute]

21. Oh. My. God.

[NurseJackie]

23. Awful.

[guillaumeb]

27. And the radio was playing Cuban songs.

A Castro connection?

[guillaumeb]

41. Everything is connected. eom

[ehrnst]

140. You mean like "the wealthy" rigging the SC debate audience with "anti-Bernie" people?

[LisaM]

29. I'm just going to say the optics aren't great.

I'll leave it at that.

[David__77]

32. Cool!

...

[myohmy2]

40. that is COOL...

...way COOL...

...just goes to show you, Bernie relates to everyone...

...but then we knew that...

...joking around is such good fun...

...man, he's really going to be OUR President...

...just like Barack...

[ALBliberal]

51. Don't see Barack Obama acting as such.

[MrsCoffee]

190. Don't compare Sanders to the man he wanted to primary.

Sanders will never be a fraction of the man Obama is. Obama is the whole package. The real deal. Sanders is a fly in the ointment.

[IluvPitties]

44. Bernie is not my guy, but this is a non-story.

[emmaverybo]

45. If Biden did it, viral complaints that this is ultimate proof he's out of touch, step, his mind, and

racist.

[mcar]

98. This

But Bernie is sooooo cool.

[Bonobo]

48. You REALLY wanna go there?

"I got a lot of… I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun,” Biden says in the speech. “And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again. They’d look at it. So I learned about roaches. I learned about kids jumping on my lap. I love kids jumping on my lap."

WTF was he talking about and why does his mind go to roaches when discussing his time among black people?

No...I don't think you wanna go there.

[BusyBeingBest]

54. Oh god. WTF with the leg hair.

[Bonobo]

55. Is that not the most unhinged, bizarre thing you ever saw. Extremely creepy.

[David__77]

60. Hmm. Well, it's an anecdote.

I'm in the category of people who doesn't care about that one or the initial OP one.

[Bonobo]

61. Pretty much same here and I would let such a bizarre statement lie normally, but

I DO get my hackles up in the face of others being petty and it makes my punch back reflexes kick in.

[David__77]

62. I get it. "Mutually assured destruction" is sort of applicable here.

There is certainly no "nuclear option" that doesn't have very wide-ranging fallout.

[Bonobo]

63. There are literally about 4 DU'ers who are doing most of it.

We all know their names I suspect.

[redqueen]

160. Yep, we do.

Good to be on the same side.

[DanTex]

76. WTF!

[Bonobo]

78. Imagine if that had been Bernie.

[DanTex]

79. Oh, yeah. It would be on every news show.

[mcar]

99. What does this have to do with my OP?

Start your own with this whataboutism shite.

[mcar]

108. Ooh, you got me!

[Bonobo]

115. Well, you were irked enough to whine about "whataboutism" so yeah, I think so.

[mcar]

116. I'm wounded

[Bonobo]

119. Your responses tell me all I need to know.

It's effing funny too.

[George II]

161. Ah, that reminds me of this classic Monty Python scene:

[mcar]

165. Just a scratch

[George II]

167. "I've had worse!"

[Luciferous]

134. That was weird.

[treestar]

187. Double standard

How can you be OK with Bernie doing stuff - as the OP says, you just proved that Biden doing it is bad, but Bernie doing it is OK.

[OliverQ]

56. Imagine if Bernie called a woman

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at a town hall a "lying dog-faced pony soldier."

[NurseJackie]

64. Isn't praising the Cuban revolution bad enough?

[OliverQ]

65. I don't know, ask Obama since he said the same thing.

And since when does America oppose dictators? We prop them up all over the world. We had our own dictator in Cuba.

[NurseJackie]

67. Debunked.

[OliverQ]

68. Nope, not debunked. Proven on video.

Bernie is going to be the nominee. Better get used to it and start backing him to get rid of Trump.

[NurseJackie]

72. Debunked.

[Cha]

131. No Pres Obama did NOT..

BS was talking about what he thinks Castro's revolution brought to Cuba in 1959.

President Obama was talking about the post 2014 strides that Cuba had made as part of the negotiated
pre-conditions for normalizing US-Cuba relations. Cuba had to meet benchmarks during the gradual process of moving towards normalization.

President Obama made the remarks at a joint press conference in Cuba in March 2016.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1287576570

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Cha]

130. Snap!

[tblue37]

80. Dog-faced. You reversed the words. nt

[mcar]

101. Whataboutism!

[treestar]

188. But exactly

so imagine if Biden did what the OP describes. You have a fit when Biden does things, and then defend Bernie doing them.

They are both old.

[Bendinel]

66. You know

Amazes me how hard anti-bernie people work on this site to try and hurt him. They will drop any and all logic in anything they say just to justify their hate of him, they’ll pick at the smallest of things and try to amplify them out of desperation.

Every time I look at democratic primaries page it is always full of some sort of anti-Bernie screed or some kind of faux outrage at the smallest of things to try and described it him.
The entire front page is basically an anti-Bernie rage and the most heavily commented threads are always anti-Bernie.
For someone who has the most support out in the real word which makes him the front runner, it’s funny how DU heavily skews to being against him, if that’s not our of touch I don’t know what is.

I go out into the real world and I see excitement and passion and a whole lot of support for Bernie and his ideas, after all that’s what makes him officially the front runner.
And then I come in DU and read and the heavy relentless anti-Bernie people here who spam the board with anti-Bernie propaganda all day long make me wish I never found this echo chamber of a place.

I’m not asking for more attacks against other candidates but ffs, it’s nothing but attacks on Bernie around here mixed in with a few threads attacking other candidates.

Anyway, thank god I live in the real world and see what’s actually happening out there, I encourage others to do the same rather than let your world view be influenced by an echo chamber that does nothing but strengthen any outrage the echo chamber instilled in you to begin with

[NurseJackie]

69. Oh brother.

[Bendinel]

70. Your response is my case in point, thanks lol

[NurseJackie]

73. LOL

[Bonobo]

83. Yes, you took the time to pen a long post, laying out your true feelings and you get...

a two word response followed by a 3-letter response.

But if you are here long enough (and I do NOT encourage that), you will see the same names, the same "writing" styles and the same truly unhinged people posting over and over.

And then, you can laugh, maybe, like me.

[Bendinel]

87. Exactly!

I might be new with posting but I’ve been reading this place for years, and like you sometimes I find it funny because it shows just how desperate anti-Bernie people are getting, but at the same time also frustrates me because if they worked as hard at promoting their own candidates instead of bashing Bernie, than we’d have excitement and a movement for all candidates not just Bernie, and trump would be guaranteed toast come November

[betsuni]

126. ...

[GP6971]

71. Welcome to DU.

The Primaries Forum is quite contentious...best to stay out of it.

Enjoy your stay!!

[Bendinel]

77. Thanks for the welcome.

I like all our candidates, and it’s amazes me why DU isn’t full of posters advancing their own candidates and their policies instead of devoting every post of theirs to actually attacking someone else’s candidate.

Instead of looking for outrage in every little thing, advance your own candidate.

After all, for all those here that Hyperventilate about sanders being unelectable in the general, how are you helping your candidate be electable if you won’t even sell him to the public.

[lunasun]

84. + I have been here a while and ask the same thing . Why not post more positives ?

[Squinch]

88. If it's so terrible, why are you here?

[Bendinel]

94. DU has other good board worthy of reading

I’ve been reading it for years and years, it actually a good place to get news and usually the discussion is nuanced in regards to other topics.

But when it come to the primaries it’s nothing but a anti-Bernie echo chamber.

Want to know why Bernie is a clear front runner now when most of DU and even the media discounted him a while back?

Because Bernie supporters are mostly focused on promoting his policies and positions while DU shows us that other candidate supporters are only focused on ‘never bernie’ agenda.

If you all actually put more effort into pushing and promoting your own candidates policies etc, then the race would be much closer.

[Squinch]

74. Good for you with all that real world stuff! We all just live in fake worlds.

Thank goodness you joined a half hour ago! Now we, too, can learn what's happening in the real world!

[Bendinel]

82. Deny it all you want.

Deny it all you want, but Bernie wouldn’t be the front runner ahead in most polls and delegates if the real world wasn’t different to the echo chamber of anti-Bernie DU.

This is the stuff I was talking about in regards to this anti-Bernie echo chamber, you just disregard any facts and logic and continue to contribute to making this place an echo chamber instead of understanding that you make not like Bernie but more people like him than do not.

Same with general election polls, the only indication we have of what will happen in the GE is polls of people saying what their future intentions of voting will be, nothing else can predict what will happen, and even if polls aren’t always correct they are still the only indication we have of people voting intentions.
Yet people here will continue to argue that Bernie is unelectable even when polls show him doing as well or better than all other candidates.

So either accept polls completely or don’t, but don’t argue a position based on something that you have no more proof of than the polls have proof.

[Squinch]

86. TLDR

[Lucky Luciano]

127. Anti-Bernie Brigade strikes again with maximum rudeness to a good faithed post.

[mcar]

103. I look forward to all this education

So nice for us poor fools.

[Bonobo]

81. You speak the truth, but don't worry. This place influences no one.

It is essentially an AOL message board at this point.

[lunasun]

85. Ha Now I spilled something ...darn you😹

[LakeArenal]

91. Who decides what the "real world" is? You?

[Bendinel]

102. No, not me.

Fact are what’s decided what the real world is.

Bernie has highest approval rating of any democratic candidate, heck he is right up in the upper echelons of the most liked politicians in the country, so that tells me that majority people like him in real world and majority hate him here.

Election results so far and polls of future states are facts that show the majority of the democratic real word agrees with Bernie more than any other candidate right now, yet here on DU it is nothing but attacking him.

Ask yourself, how can a candidate being in front, have the highest favorability of all other candidates in the race, and yet DU be reflective of the real word when it does nothing but try and paint him as a devil?

[LakeArenal]

104. The fact is that Bernie is ahead in some places not in others

The fact is two very white places have voted.

We have polls say just about everything lately.

The rest is your opinion.

“Yet DU....paint him as the devil”

That’s plain hyperbole.

[Bendinel]

112. Facts are facts, sorry.

Whether you like it or not, Bernie is ahead in delegates and votes right now, he is also ahead in most polling even if polls can sometimes be wrong.

There is a reason he is officially the democratic front runner at the moment, and it’s because the facts back that up.

Now you can continue to live inside your little echo chamber and believe what you want, but’s what’s not in dispute is that Bernie is currently leading in the democratic world and that’s shows the the real world is not as anti-Bernie as this place has become. Hence an echo chamber.

[LakeArenal]

124. If you are so sure

Why did you come on with your innocent help me understand....?

Doesn’t seem you really are interested at all.

[R B Garr]

129. Exactly, that seems like an experienced poster. nt

[GP6971]

111. Why is your candidate preference

Undecided, but are pushing Bernie? Just curious.

[Bendinel]

113. Bernie or warren, that's why.

I’m undecided because my vote will go to either Sanders or Warren, who ever is in front.

To me they are both peas in the same pod so whichever of the 2 looks like getting the nomination, will get the most enthusiastic vote I have ever cast in my whole life.

[GP6971]

118. Thanks! n/t

[sheshe2]

122. Welp.

Ya just joined today.

Welcome to DU.

And then I come in DU and read and the heavy relentless anti-Bernie people here who spam the board with anti-Bernie propaganda all day long make me wish I never found this echo chamber of a place.

[lunasun]

75. Here's a thread about Shroff that will really blow your mind if you read all the twittercomments

endless string of comments for you& Shroff to be outraged about 🙀

And don’t forget

Link to tweet

?s=21

Link to tweet

?s=21

[mcar]

109. Good thing Sanders didn't have hot sauce in his purse.

Link to tweet

?s=20


Good thing Sanders didn’t have hot sauce in his purse.

The media might mock him mercilessly for that.

Link to tweet

…

[R B Garr]

128. OMG! That is really offensive.

Just...unbelievable.

Thanks for posting this—it’s great to point out the hypocrisy and double standards.

[NurseJackie]

132. "point out the hypocrisy and double standards" -- I know, right?

point out the hypocrisy and double standards

I know, right? If we don't do it, who will? If not now, when?

It was truly offensive.

[Act_of_Reparation]

142. I think Bernie's deafness on race issues has been fairly well attended to.

But I understand if you find feeling you've been treated unfairly more emotionally satisfying.

[Kahuna7]

144. But WAIT! There's more....He's seems to be stuck in a 60s time warp too.

https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20160212/NEWS/801243188

His campaign dismissed Clinton’s contention that Sanders had presented himself as potentially better than Obama on race relations. Sanders was asked if race relations would be better under a Sanders administration than they had been. The senator said, “Absolutely, because what we will do is say, instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires, we are going to create millions of jobs for low-income kids so they’re not hanging out on street corners. We’re going to make sure that those kids stay in school or are able to get a college education.”

[lunasun]

169. This would be great in many areas of Chicago . If anything it has increased

Maybe you can not relate 2020 because you don’t live in an area that needs help

But thanks for thinking that it doesn’t exist and no areas in the USA need this kind of help for their youth

https://mobile.twitter.com/mbmhmc/status/969269778631266306/photo/1

[Kahuna7]

170. Get over yourself. I'm from Newark, NJ. Bros stopped hanging on street

corners decades ago. I remember when they actually did.

[lunasun]

171. Yeah right you are clueless

[Kahuna7]

172. Keep believing that. Only YOU and bernie envision bros..

hanging on street corners singing doo whop.

[redqueen]

151. He's from Brooklyn. 'Hood means neighborhood.

Reach.

[George II]

163. It didn't mean that when he was living there. He and I were born less than five miles apart....

....he in 1941, me in 1948. We left in 1957, he left in 1959. We were both in all-white neighborhoods, mostly European immigrants or 2nd generation. His neighborhood never really changed drastically, ours began changing a year or two after we moved to Queens.

[NurseJackie]

164. Looks like the only "reach" is that explanation.

Want to try again?

[mcar]

166. What does the boom box on the shoulder mean?

And the "strut?"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

162. This too

Link to tweet

?s=20

Really Bernie.

[betsuni]

168. +1

[Laelth]

173. I guess Bernie doesn't know how to play the sax. n/t

-Laelth

[Happy Hoosier]

174. As much as I dislike Bernie, let's not over react.

That was ill-advised, but not racist, IMO.

[PunkinPi]

175. I'm old enough to remember when HRC was dragged for...

pandering because she carried hot sauce in her bag, despite her love of it for decades.

This is awkward at best.

[mcar]

178. Yes.

Talk about a double standard.

[PubliusEnigma]

176. Bernie 2: Electric Boogaloo

[JustAnotherGen]

181. WTAF

[mcar]

182. Thank goodness he doesn't carry hot sauce

[Gothmog]

186. Arggh