Levi Sanders Accused Joy Reid of Engaging in "Identity Politics" and "Turning Off" the Working Class

[RandySF]

Link to tweet

[onecaliberal]

1. What?!?

[vercetti2021]

2. Piss off Levi

I'm ashamed I ever supported your father. Go run as a con, you speak their language

[Sophia4]

19. This is Levi Sanders' Twitter account.

https://twitter.com/Celentra?lang=en

Maybe he removed some Tweets, but I don't see anything against Joy Reid there.

I don't know quite what to think.

[grossproffit]

22. Same account as posted in OP. The tweet is from October of last year.

[BannonsLiver]

30. That poster has been spamming that all day

not Fooling anyone either.

[arthritisR_US]

3. He tweets like a Russian bot ffs😡

[dalton99a]

4. Sure sounds like a fucking asshole.

What the fuck is he trying to prove?

[MaryMagdaline]

5. She energizes a lot of AA working class people

But maybe they don't count

[RandySF]

12. We know who he's talking about,

[brush]

6. He's a repug masquerading as a Democrat. Just the fuck what we need. Hope he loses bad.

[Sophia4]

20. Really?

This is his Twitter account.

https://twitter.com/Celentra?lang=en

Sounds like a Democrat to me, and I've been a Democrat all my life.

[brush]

21. Somebody's lying, either the tweets from the OP or this twitter page you allege is his real page.

Why is there always divisive crap around them?

Just run as independents and leave the Democrat Party out of all the uncertainty as to who they are.

Now you're saying he didn't back the NRA witch defending trump.

Who are we supposed to believe?

[mythology]

24. Or this tweet is older and thus further back

Levi Sanders has a serious problem in trying to run as a Democrat.

[Phoenix61]

7. I am so over him. nt

[Docreed2003]

8. I said it early today about him...disgusting

I’m sorry but I’m sick and tired of this “Identity politics alienates...” fill in the blank. Newsflash Levi, poor whites are not the only “hard working, low income class” demographic in this country. The world does not revolve around this idea that the “white working class” doesn’t have a voice. Maybe, and I realize this may be too much for his brain to wrap around, but maybe the “working class whites” that voted for trump weren’t so much concerned about economics as they were about race and their status and their Faux News warped belief that somehow empowering and supporting minority workers was taking something from them. How about the idea of bringing up all boats and the radical idea that if we support rights and empowerment of minorities that all in the country will benefit? I guess that’s too complex for Levi.

My advice to Levi: take your bullshit that you’ve been spewing over to the GOP side, it certainly aligns better there.

[smirkymonkey]

31. +1000

[nycbos]

9. Let me translate.

Because I used to be a white male leftist asshole so I am fluent in their dogs whites

When they say "working class" they mean white people and the top concern must be to cater to their fragile egos who are threatened by this intelligent woman of color.


I am now a pragmatic Progressive Democratic.

I might still be a bit of an asshole

[Lil Missy]

10. "She (Joy) helped MSNBC launch it latest star" Doesn't sound much "alienating" to me.

I s'pose I'd be preaching to the choir if I said Joy was already a star in my eyes before she got her own gig.

[lunamagica]

11. Such a smart move, Sanders Jr! Alienate AA voters! What a way to start your

career, LOL

[comradebillyboy]

13. Not a lot of AA voters in Vermont.

Last edited Wed Feb 28, 2018, 11:32 AM - Edit history (1)

edit: oops that should be NH, my bad.

[lunamagica]

14. I don't think his ambition ends in Vermont

[comradebillyboy]

17. He may be ambitious, but he is too boorish and offputting to go

very far as a Democrat. Unfortunately for Levi his father's star seems to be waning and the magic name is not quite so powerful any more. The fact that these once obscure tweets have gone viral is a bad sign for Levi, I think.

[Me.]

26. He's Running In New Hampshire

but not gazillions of AA people there either. Point of interest, he's running in a district he doesn't live in, but that is legal in that state, how that may be playing against him. He's certainly making some sad sack moves.

[comradebillyboy]

27. It was late and I was having my double scotch nightcap

and from here in NM the lines between VT and NH were pretty blurred.

[Me.]

28. Double Scotch

[Gothmog]

15. I love AMJOY

This is another reason to dislike Levi Sanders

[struggle4progress]

16. I've admired Joy for many years now, because she's smart and well-informed

Maybe that's what Mr Sanders dislikes about her?

[NBachers]

18. Let's make this hellspawn's career over now - they've already done too much damage to the world.

Just go the fuck away - all of you! Move in with the fucking Palins.

No apologies if I'm offending any of the Levi-bros around here.

On edit:

After doing a bit of my own research, it looks like there are some actual, real democrats running in this race:

https://ballotpedia.org/New_Hampshire%27s_1st_Congressional_District_election,_2018

Mark S. Mackenzie - State Rep.[10]
Deaglan McEachern[11]
Mindi Messmer - State Rep.[12]
Terence O'Rourke[13]
Chris Pappas[14]
Levi Sanders[15]
Lincoln Soldati[16]
Maura Sullivan

In my quick review, I've been most impressed with, in this order: Maura Sullivan, Mark S. Mackenzie, Terence O'Rourke, and Mindi Messmer. If I had to narrow it down at this point, I'd probably make it Maura and Mark, with Maura getting my contributions.

There's plenty of information at the link. Let's talk about who else is running, and see who to focus on.

[RandySF]

23. kicked for visibility

[betsuni]

25. K&R

[OneGrassRoot]

29. I don't get the criticism of "identity politics"

Being white is an identity.

Being poor is an identity.

Being working class is an identity.

Constituents have different priorities based on many factors. To me, all politics is identity politics. Is this term simply a current dog whistle for THOSE PEOPLE?

[smirkymonkey]

32. You got it.

Levi, like his father only care about working class WHITE MEN. They could give a damn about people of color, women, LGBT's or any other marginalized group. They are NOT on our side.

[uriel1972]

33. Yes very much so...

It's a term to demonise any attempt to discuss or deal with the discrimination against non-white, non-male and non-heteronormative people.

[SidDithers]

34. But are you sure thats really Levis twitter account?...

Sid

[DeminPennswoods]

35. I like Reid and watch her show every weekend

But I was shocked when she had Tom Perez on after Doug Jones won in ALA and just harranged him about the DNC not hiring enough minority campaign firms. Perez said they did hire minority outreach groups for that election, but she wouldn't let up. I have never seen her treat a fellow Democrat so rudely. Maybe she was still upset he beat out Ellison, but she sure seemed bent on giving Perez what for.