Bernie: 'My Opponents' Want Black, White, Gay, Latino or Women Candidates 'Regardless...
Bernie: ‘My Opponents’ Want Black, White, Gay, Latino or Women Candidates ‘Regardless of What They Stand For’by Tommy Christopher | Jan 24th, 2019, 3:55 pm
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In a lengthy profile for GQ Magazine, Sanders once again railed against what he calls “identity politics,” telling the magazine that he believes his opponents care only about fielding candidates based on race, gender, or sexuality:
Fact Check: The only arguable “opponent” of Sanders who has said anything like this is Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti, who told Time Magazine that the 2020 Democratic nominee “better be a white male” because “When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight.”
Sanders has a long history of dismissing the concerns of women and minorities, obsessing over white voters, as well as seeming to excuse racism.
After the 2016 election, Sanders hit a similar theme when he told a crowd of supporters “It’s not good enough for somebody to say ‘hey I’m a Latina vote for me’ that is not good enough,” and went on to add “It is not good enough for somebody to say, ‘I’m a woman, vote for me.'”
more:
https://www.mediaite.com/online/bernie-my-opponents-want-black-white-gay-latino-or-women-candidates-regardless-of-what-they-stand-for/
The link to the GQ interview is in the first sentence of the article, above
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were being held in jail for months or years, even though they've never been convicted of a crime, simply because they can't afford bail." This was LAST YEAR. "I really didn't know this was happening." 
My first thought was, "Dude, you're done." 
lol.. yes we're Soooooooooo DISTRACTED!
Most of us DEMS
want someone who is qualified and can beat trump. I don't care what color they are or gender.
And, he knows this.
grr
Thank you betsuni!
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You know what else isn't true? It's NOT TRUE that Democrats are "ideologically bankrupt". It's NOT TRUE that Democrats are "corrupt". It's NOT TRUE that the Democratic party is "the party of the one-percent". It's NOT TRUE that there's "no difference between Democrats and Republicans." It's NOT TRUE that Democrats are "do-nothings". It's NOT TRUE that the Democratic party "doesn't care about climate change."
It serves no good purpose for anyone to say these types of things that falsely put Democrats and the Democratic party in a negative light.
All I'm saying is that when anyone smears and denigrates the Democratic party, it only serves to divide and weaken us... and a weakened Democratic party benefits the GOP, and Trump, and Russia.
, Cha! Aloha!
and minority folks and women will have more, but still be at the bottom.
pass.
… how can someone who had so many relatable things to say spout out this stuff? Is it an excerpt of some grander idea? In any case, he should stop complaining about how others make appeals re: diversity and tell voters how he - not others - is going to be the candidate for diversity.
said that EVER.
he's set up a false premise.
Thank You!
and specifically who you're trying to marginalize.. or is it everybody?!
Spooky
How are you, Cha?
but thankfully this time it will be very diverse with more women and minorities.
Sanders is obviously targeting the rust belt white voters who shifted to Trump. It doesn't hurt to have him out there campaigning in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, etc. to pick off enough Trump votes to make a difference. He won't do as well in the more diverse states. I doubt he would be our nominee.
You know they have to bring up Susan Collins, Clarence Thomas and Herman Caine....
Not that anyone right here in this thread has ever done so or anything.
and you believe them even when the numbers don't bear it out?
fantasy.
and buy Bernie a nice shovel. 
A bigger nicer one.
Perhaps a particular style of shovel normally used in the garden?
Go home, Bernie. Just go back to white Vermont where a black female elected official was hounded from office by threats of violence and death, and ask her about "identity politics." And try to listen this time.
Exactly. Gracias for your post, Caliman
it's just one excuse after another. 
I sat DU out during the 2015/2016 primaries.... because you know it gets 
When I came back on election night it was hacked and I lost my account.
Just ask those poor Covington boys.
White male privilege allows a person to benefit from all the advantages of being white and male, and then turn around and claim he has been at a severe disadvantage all his life and that women and minorities have it so much easier.
I suggest you start actually listening to women and minorities. Learn about what we deal with every day before telling us we have it easier. Practice some empathy.
If Bernie had been female, he would have been called “shrill”, “weak”, and “unqualified “. If he had been black, he would have been dismissed as “an angry black man”, assuming he actually made it as far as the Senate and didn’t end up in jail or murdered by a cop decades earlier.
And yet, we have to listen to white men mansplaining to us that Bernie, all along, has had it so tough because he’s a white and male.
You made the point I was trying to make, but with humor and fewer words! 
What Effie said: "If Bernie were female or minority, he'd be taken much more seriously."
I think that's pretty much what you said.
The fact that so many people are calling your statement an example of white male privilege should tell you something.
from those same jaggoff advisors...
No lessons learned at al 
In 2016 Bernie started from zero name recognition and ended up with 43 percent of the popular vote against the "inevitable" candidate. Those are not bad results, by any stretch of the imagination.
Where have I heard that before?
that, MM
