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2016 Postmortem

ericson00

(2,707 posts) Fri Feb 5, 2016, 07:39 PM Feb 2016

It's Not Just Berniebros

O reader, hear my plea: I am the victim of semantic drift.

Four months ago, I coined the term “Berniebro” to describe a phenomenon I saw on Facebook: Men, mostly my age, mostly of my background, mostly with my political beliefs, were hectoring their friends about how great Bernie was even when their friends wanted to do something else, like talk about the NBA.

In the post, I tried to gently suggest that maybe there were other ways to advance Sanders’s beliefs, many of which I share. I hinted, too, that I was not talking about every Sanders supporter. I did this subtly, by writing: “The Berniebro is not every Sanders supporter.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/berniebro-revisited/460212/?utm_source=SFFB