Of course, there immediately appeared scores of posts excusing the atrocious behaviour of creepazoids in Nevada who threw chairs and sent death threats to female politicians. All of these posts are written by white men of all ages who are known for their immaturity and who slip into their favorite whiny brat voices to explain away the nastiness in Nevada.
Here is one example but I have many more. It’s really funny to observe how all of their fake feminism slips away the moment they face the existence of women who are not pathetic little victims. I noticed this phenomenon a while ago. There is a whole class of men who earnestly believe themselves to be pro-women and who collect stories about female victimization. When they encounter women who are not victims, though, they flip out. Women in positions of power drive them up a wall. Nobody remembers Hugo Schwyzer any more, but he was one such fellow. All of these fake Bernie supporters are exactly the same.
And it’s the same with racial issues. These folks have as much compassion for victimized black people as they have hatred and contempt for blacks who speak in authoritative, strong voices and dare to have opinions of their own.
And, once again, it’s exactly the same in what concerns immigrants, Muslims, Hispanics. They are all for us when we can be pitied and lectured. But woe be unto us if we dare not to be pitiful.
An honest Trump supporter skips the whole fake ally thing and sincerely exhibits his hatred. I prefer that to the sanctimonious viciousness of these pseudo-progressive creeps who have attached themselves to Bernie Sanders’s cause and are making him look unreservedly bad. Of course, most Bernie supporters are good people but good people never make as much noise as a bunch of overgrown, immature boys brimming over with insecurity and hatred.
P.S. And just observe the contrast between the whiny tone of the piece linked above and the integrity and seriousness of this fellow. The difference is striking.
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Spot on, Clarissa, as evidenced by the demeaning characterizations of voters of color who powered HRC’s primary victories in the South.
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This answers an earlier question about why Black voters tradtitionally don’t much like white northern liberals (like the Bernster) and mostly won’t vote for them as candidates.
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Yes. I couldn’t understand it at first but after observing how this election developed, a lot became clear. I also now have a greater compassion for the Russian-speaking immigrants who vote Republican, especially the older generation. I don’t support them but I understand.
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“I also now have a greater compassion for the Russian-speaking immigrants”
Wow! That therapist really did do a number on you!
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No, it’s the baby. She puts me into a permanent good mood. I’m like a happy, permanently smiling idiot these days. 🙂
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I mostly agree with you — the claims of “violence” are very exaggerated — but I just wish Hillary’s policies were something I could live with. She’s just a Republican in all but name, but not as bad as Trump. Not what the country needs.
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Hillary is:
– in favor of defending reproductive rights;
– in favor of paid parental leave;
– in favor of making early child care more affordable;
– against the destruction of HBCUs.
To me, these points are so major, so crucial that I will never understand how it is possible to dismiss them as unimportant.
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I agree that they are important. But I have to balance them with how likely she is to start an overseas war like Iraq, which was just disastrous to the US and to the world (and obviously, Iraq).
I’m in a state that there’s no chance Hillary will win, so if I vote I’m voting for Jill Stein, anyway. If there were a more feminist candidate on the ballot, I’d vote for her (or him). I’d never vote for Trump.
That said, Clinton’s policies on many things I agree with. But the chance of her starting another overseas war are so high (she is very hawkish) it’s hard for me to accept that risk. In general, she’s a terrible candidate but better than Trump — she fully and unquestioningly supports the neoliberal consensus, has no real idea how the economy actually works, and was very bad at State.
She’s the best of a bad lot. And that’s not very good.
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Sadly, I have talked with quite a few nominally progressive men, some pretty close to me. And when they ask “So what is Hillary going to do?” and I talk about family leave and early childhood education and reproductive rights, you can tell they simply don’t consider those to be particularly worthwhile causes at all. They come back with, “Yeah, but… Hawkish!”
I don’t want to be insensitive, but for the daily functioning of nearly all Americans (i.e., those who procreate) it is objectively enormously more important if they can afford daycare and plan their family and be able to have kids without losing jobs… Yet for some reason those are “women’s issues” and as such “Yeah, but…”
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“Sadly, I have talked with quite a few nominally progressive men, some pretty close to me. And when they ask “So what is Hillary going to do?” and I talk about family leave and early childhood education and reproductive rights, you can tell they simply don’t consider those to be particularly worthwhile causes at all. They come back with, “Yeah, but… Hawkish!””
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“[Hillary is] against the destruction of HBCUs”
I agree completely that this is important. And it drives me crazy that the “Berniebros” refuse to understand that this is an important issue in the African American community. The African American support of Clinton isn’t some inscrutable mystery nor is it representative of political naivete: it’s rational support of a candidate who responds to their specific needs.
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Especially right now when HBCUs are being destroyed in one state after another by Republican governors. And their existence is crucial to these states.
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I definitely wish the primary were over already. There are sites I used to read regularly but am avoiding until the end of primary season, because I don’t want discover that a writer I generally admire is making an ass of him/her self over the Clinton-Sanders contest.
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Yes. I’ve grown very disappointed in many people. I don’t mind that they support different candidates. But I’m saddened by the stupidity they manifest in the process.
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Hillary is:
– in favor of defending reproductive rights;
– in favor of paid parental leave;
– in favor of making early child care more affordable;
– against the destruction of HBCUs.
To me, these points are so major, so crucial that I will never understand how it is possible to dismiss them as unimportant.
People whose quality of life would be drastically affected by these policies might vote for Hillary. People who cannot become pregnant, do not want children and do not need college are not going to care.
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In short, white men.
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Sanders enjoys massive support from young people (under 35). This support is consistent across all demographics: male, female, white, black, latino, etc. To call this a white male thing is enormously insulting to everyone else who passionately supports their candidate. As if only white males are allowed to be labeled progressive in this country.
I can’t wait to read a few hundred more concern-trolling articles about this berniebro phenomenon. This fucking primary!
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Is it possible to like a candidate yet detest some of the people who support that candidate? Because I’m there now and I’ve stopped paying attention to the primaries for the last… month or so, and I’ve followed these stories much more closely than my friends who are fighting on my feed about their candidates. This election is doing wonders for my misanthropy.
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I feel the same. Amanda Marcotte is one such example for me. She used to have some interesting stuff back in the day but now she’s become so insufferable I can’t believe I ever cared for her writing.
Such toxic stupidity.
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I stopped reading her over two years ago. I stopped reading Salon a while ago as well. I just got…bored because it was Buzzfeed without the entertainment factor.
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I can’t read Salon because they go absolutely crazy with links. It’s like every text suffers from acne.
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Or like people who support a candidate you detest. I’m seeing really good, normal people here where I live supporting Trump. Because “he doesn’t really mean it.”
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