Or maybe Clinton is just a bad candidate and young women don’t like her.
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“if Hillary wins, I am voting for Trump!” Is something I’ve never heard or seen anyone say except by Clinton supporters supposedly quoting someone.
Pretty wide brush there my friend.
The silent generation should be as incensed at the boomers as I am, given that they frittered away everything that the silent generation worked for and left nothing for their grandchildren.
... are you atttempting to explain sexism to me? How’s that for condescending! Sexism is ALWAYS part of the equation, unfortunately, but it is only part of it. And while I dearly love Gloria steinem, what she said is wildly insulting, and frankly, sexist.
... none of that contradicts what I’m saying. Age is far and away the biggest split, here. If you look at younger voters, Bernie wins among young women by a huge margin. He ALSO wins among young men, by an even bigger margin. In this race, age is likelier than gender to tell you who someone’s going to vote for.
Like I said, I’m not arguing that they don’t exist. The fact that Bernie has some supporters who are misogynists, though, is a terrible reason for me or anyone else to not vote for him when he’s the candidate who’s better aligned with my political beliefs.
I think that’s incredibly patronizing. That’s exactly the kind of argument that got Gloria Steinem in so much trouble. I don’t deny that sexism, unfortunately, plays a role in presidential politics. But I’m a little tired of the “Bernie supporters are just a bunch of sexists” line. It’s a red herring. There are…
... I’m not saying they don’t exist, friend. I’m saying that they only account for a small fraction of Bernie’s supporters. Personally, I think Bernie is hands-down the more feminist candidate, even though I think it would be a good thing to have a woman represented in the presidency.
Not that those people aren’t totally repulsive, but don’t mistake a few loud people on the internet as being representative of the actual voters. I’m a millennial too, and there’s nothing I hate more than people who think millennials are stupid, lazy, spoiled, entitled, and so on. We’re the ones who got screwed over…
I think the issue is that Sanders is telling hard truths. What I get from this is the postmodern concept that perception is more important than reality.
This is about optics and spin. I don’t believe for a damn second that Clinton has a better grasp on the systemic sociopolitical and economic oppression of POC than Sanders does, but that’s inconsequential in this game. It’s absolutely counterproductive for any Sanders supporter to disagree with black people about…
Yep, exactly. Bernie thinks Hillary is too closely allied to Wall Street to really hold big money accountable. Hillary thinks Bernie’s financial plans for Wall Street are impractical.
Yeah, it legitimately depresses me to see the Democratic party tearing itself apart like this. I completely understand having a preference for Sanders over Clinton or visa versa, but can we just knock it off with such aggressive attacks and hair-splitting? Both of them are miles and miles ahead, policy-wise,…
Bernie Sanders is from Brooklyn, not Poland. My Jewish family is also of Polish origin and I don’t know what it’s like to be ghettoized through osmosis either.
He’s specifically talking about how Black poverty is different than White poverty, that’s the whole point. He’s making the point that not everything is about economics, which is something he get’s criticized for NOT doing.
It’s true; redlining/reverse redlining are not simply a poor people’s issue, it’s a black people’s issue.
Agreed. Geographical marginalization is real. I remember finding out in high school that my upper middle class suburban area had laws on the books against selling a home to people of color until the Fair Housing Act of 63. Fucking appalling. Combine that with white flight and the economic starvation of urban…
To be fair I think there’s a distinction between saying “ghetto” and saying a shitty neighbourhood or a tenement. White people certainly know what it’s like to be poor and obviously there’s economic segregation but isn’t he right that white people probably don’t know what it’s like to be ghettoized?