Bernie Sanders supporters getting Ugly online

[itsrobert]

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35422316

Passionate support for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has propelled him into a close race with fellow Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. But some say that support has turned aggressive and abusive online.
After the 25 January Democratic town hall, Emily Nussbaum, television critic for the New Yorker magazine, tweeted some positive feedback for Hillary Clinton.
"I'm into Hillary, obviously, but I genuinely thought she did really well tonight," Ms Nussbaum wrote.
About a half an hour later, she followed up with this: "Man, the Feel The Bern crew (as opposed to Bern himself) is such a drag. Say anything pro-Hil & they yell 'bitch' & 'psycho.' V idealistic!"
Others - including a number of prominent members of the media - followed with their own reports of seeing Sanders supporters deploying vicious rhetoric towards anyone questioning the Vermont senator or his backers.
Author Sady Doyle said her tweets about Sanders supporters resulted in "several hundred angry notifications in a 24-hour span from that cohort," she wrote. "Someone also said *I* should die if I thought some Bernie supporters were kinda sexist."

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[tazkcmo]

1. Somebody call the Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

aaaaambulance!

[AtomicKitten]

44. !!!

[ErisDiscordia]

2. These are apparently unsubstantiated "reports"

Hearsay, in other words. Not only is there no prima facie evidence backing the claims, there is also no evidence that the alleged perpetrators are in fact supporters of the Bernie 2016 campaign.

This is good reason to ignore such claims.

[VulgarPoet]

6. Y'know, just like we have no prima facie evidence

that Bernie's "supporters" in Nevada were actually supporters, or that a mailer with AARP's logo on it exists, or that he's a racist. So hey. Business as usual out of Camp Weathervane. Can't you hear the squeaking dissonance of the figurehead?

[ErisDiscordia]

13. It's like Nixon lives.

The first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Personally, living through Tricky Dick's and Hoover's antics once was enough.

[Health Wagon]

15. Hoover?

I'd love to hear a story or two...

[ErisDiscordia]

17. J Edgar Hoover, FBI

consult wikipedia, or Google

[Health Wagon]

40. Oh that Hoover.

I thought you were talking about Herbert Hoover.

[Sheepshank]

38. Couple these with all of the substantiated reports, and it lends a lot of credibility

Sanders Supporters have a reputation in the cyber world. They deny and ignore, never ever truthfully address the problem. I'm actually fine with all of that. It turns a lot of people off when the thrashing, swarming, rude, obnoxious is so obvious. Thanks Sanders supporters, you make my work so much easier.

[hrmjustin]

3. Getting?

[hobbit709]

4. the poutrage du jour.

I wonder how many posts we'll see on this one from the usual suspects.

[Bonobo]

5. An attack on Bernie supporters??? What? Never saw THAT here before! nt

[99Forever]

7. Perhaps if Sanders supporters triple down on ...

..."getting Ugly online" they can catch halfway up Hillarians and the shit they post.

Watcha tink? Eh?

[ErisDiscordia]

14. I got better things to do

[99Forever]

21. Well allllllllrighty then!

[SammyWinstonJack]

37. Hillarians would do well to look in the mirror wrt

getting ugly online

[Iliyah]

8. The infux of ugly attacks on anyone who supports and endorses HRC

example" Sabina Fulton, PP, et al.,

Yep.

[frylock]

32. Mild disagreement = ugly attack only in the mind of Hillary Supporter.

[liberal N proud]

9. We have experienced this first had

Right here on DU, the are vicious and in your face.

They can be very hypocritical as well.

So glad that I am not the only one that sees this.

[pipoman]

10. Let me know when they start justifying hiding state secrets in his basement..

[nc4bo]

11. Hillary's meme generating jukebox is stuck in repeat

Random, CD 1, A Weathervane is for spinnin'.

Greatest Hits include:
He's a racist racer.
He's sexist machine.
He's a commie kinda guy.
Bernie, where'd you get that (Teflon) coat?
He's a Rebel (Establishment blues version)
Sanders' supporters are so mean(I think I'm gonna scream)
So cool, he's got an ice cream in his name.

There's so many on that Greatest hit CD that I can't remember them all.

Can't wait for the release Greatest Hits, volume 2.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Then there's the big hit (piece) by the Swinging Pantsuits

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"You're no good, you're no good, you're no good, Bernie, you're no good"

[CharlotteVale]

23. ....

[nc4bo]

28. Heehee that'll be on the un-POP 40 chart for sure!

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. Oh gawd..

[VulgarPoet]

22. You forgot "Pink Unicorns and Pizza Shit"

wow, if I let my focus lapse a little, that sounds almost like a Blink-182 song title.

[nc4bo]

29. Looks like Volume 2 is close to being released.

That song title sounds like a winner

[frylock]

33. The Brock has reached the bottom of his bag of dirty tricks..

so now he's turned the bag inside-out, and is on his hands and knees desperately sifting through the detritus, trying to find something... ANYTHING that will stick.

[Skwmom]

12. More political games and manipulation

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511080319

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. When a person...

When a person convinces himself or herself that his or cause is more noble and important than everybody else's cause there is little they can not justify doing in their own minds. That is the genesis of a lot of human misery.

[farleftlib]

18. When "some" talks, people listen

Whenever I read a news article which includes the words "some say", you can rest assured whatever claim being made is a bogus talking point. If you have the goods, you don't resort to such sloppy journalism.

Didn't Jon Stewart do a piece on this? Something like "Some people say your momma's a whore..."

[LWolf]

19. Bullshit.

What has been ugly all along is the continuous attacks on Sanders supporters by Clinton supporters and the Clinton campaign.

I'm sorry that she can't compete on issues with Sanders or generate the kind of enthusiasm Sanders does, but the bitterness reflects poorly on those expressing it, not on those they are attacking.

[Skwmom]

24. It's not like they'd pay people to act as Bernie supporters to smear Bernie and his supporters.

I'm sure they'd never think of that. rofl: :

[mhatrw]

25. Sanders' supporters speaking their mind getting so much resistance from behind.

[NaturalHigh]

26. Getting ugly? Been ugly.

I got kicked out of the Bernie Sanders group because I disagreed with Omaha Steve. I think I had a grand total of two posts in there. Of course, I've been very clear that I'm voting for Hillary Clinton, so maybe they just don't want me in there.

[redstateblues]

27. Ideological Purity must be maintained

any deviation will not be tolerated

[frylock]

34. Maybe you'll find more traction with this at jackass or hcs.com

[Nanjeanne]

30. Love this tweet by David Sirota

Favorite meme of 2016: because alleged Sanders supporter @RandomNobody54 on Twitter is an a-hole, it means Sanders shouldn't be president.

[frylock]

35. Love it!

[LexVegas]

31. I have seen the attacks on minorities and women that have endorsed HRC. nt

[frylock]

36. No, what you saw was mild disagreement.

I can't imagine how sensitive one would have to be in order to characterize "I disagree with your support of Hillary" as an attack.

[SheenaR]

41. Both sides are guilty

I'm a woman supporting Bernie, and I hate that everyone is using this excuse (including me) but people are straight up angry. Our country was founded on fighting tyranny. People are feeling that same fire right now. And in 2016 we don't tar and feather people or take them out into the public square. We sit at a screen and vent anonymously at our fellow Americans. We may be on the same side, but philosophically many of us are NOT on the same side. Thus, this campaign has been very ugly for Dems and Rethugs

[ChiciB1]

42. If You're Given The Power Of The Pen, Which Most People Don't

have, we're just part of "we the people" in this country called citizens, THE PEN can write and people will read what you say. Some choose to believe what they read, some don't. Speculation, innuendo, someone said, I heard this, I saw this should be taken with a grain of salt.

JMHO

[R B Garr]

43. A widely acknowledged and shameful trend.

Turming people off in droves.