1) No one likes being told that they are dumb, uninformed, or clueless. Especially when one /has/ looked at Bernie's record and platform and just don't agree with the Bernie supporters.
2) No one likes being insulted and called slurs for not supporting Sanders.
3) No one likes the assumption that if you don't like Sanders, you're obviously a "Shrillary" supporter.
And sure, this may be just a small group of Bernie supporters who have harassed blacks, women, and black women on social media platforms. But they are loud and persistent. And when most of Sanders' rallies are a sea of white, it is easy to assume that those people are in agreement with the "BernieBros" (And yes, this ends up erasing PoC Bernie supporters like yourself).
Please see how Sanders supporters have gone after the BLM movement and BLM supporters. Those young women who interrupted the Seattle rally were called everything but a child of God. Bernie was trying to pull Clinton leftward, and BLM decided to pull everyone towards social justice. And some Bernie supporters don't like how they stole his thunder.
Can you detail this harassment for me? Because what I saw during all these incidents I personally wouldn't classify as harassment, i'd classify it as over enthusiasm that leads to incredibly annoying badgering and an experience/perception gap between genders/race that causes them to make seemingly innocuous comments that other people may find offensive such as when they act as though Killer Mike is the king of black people or badger about the MLK thing.
And I can see how/why that's an issue for a lot of people, but personally whenever I'm faced with something like that I recognize whether the intent was malicious or not, and why they would say what they said, and I try to tell them how they should act the next time they're faced with a minority voter.
Of course this isn't to say Bernie doesn't have racist or sexist supporters, every candidate does, I guess I just don't appreciate the singling out the white men in this campaign have faced with "bernie bro".
Also can you give me an example of the slur slinging and how widespread it is? Because I sincerely haven't seen it.
And don't have anything to say on that last point, except that it can be irritating to see someone who doesn't support Bernie Sanders because of incredibly slight differences in perspective, that act as though they're massive gaps and then refuse to vote as if they're ever going to find a candidate close to what the want.
And on the paragraphs, I've really never minded and still don't mind how white Bernie's rallies are, especially considering the population differences, and the fact that he's not preaching any racially inflammatory rhetoric so it's no biggie to me, it's just a matter of hen/if minority voters catch onto how great Sanders is(which I believe a lot have), and it's incredibly absurd imo that people preach that "bernie bro" nonsense as if it's any different than Hilary's base or a lot of the people who voted for Obama back in 08 and then turned around saying black people can't complain anymore, because whether or not that's your intention that's what it implies and it hurts Bernie.
Also about "bernie bro's" erasing PoC supporters like myself, I hate that term once again because it's only in reference to white males, when i've spoken too ton's of black men who believe in the apparent "Bernie bro" rhetoric whether that's in reference to black people/the "black vote" or in reference to women, and because I also know white women and minority women who are abstaining from voting for Hilary if Bernie wins, but that's also been painted as a "bernie bro" thing (i'm voting for Hilary if Bernie loses btw).
Which isn't to say that for both of those that's the majority because I know those are more likely to be white male opinions, but it is to say you can't just box the opinions down in one group like that, especially when it pushes out some of the people you're trying to defend even if you disagree with them, hell i've seen people on here claim it's "bernie-bro" to call Hilary corporate which is absurd.
And on the BLM thing, i'll come clean with what I called them when they stormed his rally and what I believe now.
I called the girls who stormed his rally race-baiting fools and I still believe it.
I don't think they were fools because they stormed the rally, think they were fools because rather than contact Sanders to talk first they decided to harass him, when if they met and they didnt like it or he refused, then they could storm his rally, and I believe that because I believe Sanders is the best candidate on racial issues and by doing something like that they risked hurting his campaign which it's done among some people.
I also thought they were fools because on the stage Sanders tried to peacefully talk to one of them but he was shouted down and ignored by her, and then he had to leave the stage, and because they had no sense of optics/good pr for how they were acting, something I believe is important for any movement (and something as we've seen some Bernie supporters lack).
And I think she was"race-baiting" because rather than trying to start a reasonable discourse like an activist should do, she posted herself drinking water in a shirt that said white tears, and that was one of the few times I ever called something "race-baiting" because it's always used inappropriately by white people in response to any grievance with race.
So I didn't support them in that incident, and just like there were many people who did, there were many black people in my circles who did not support the action of BLM, and I don't believe our opinions are discounted because we aren't white men saying it, even if it isn't positive to people.
(of course none of us were saying #alllivesmatter)
Thank's for the response.
just preemptively saying that I don't think their are any major differences between the black and white electorate when it comes to being informed)
