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PatrickforO

(14,516 posts)
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 12:25 PM Feb 2016

Beware of the Angry White People Supporting Hillary and Spreading the 'Bernie Bro' Myth

This HuffPo article highlights some of the experiences African Americans who came out in support of Bernie have faced at the hands of Clinton supporters in the political establishment. Here's a provocative quote from the article, which is not breaking news, but is an opinion piece, so I'm publishing it here:

"Furthermore, white female Clinton supporters, petrified of losing power and influence within America's political system, acted in the same manner towards Ohio State Senator Nina Turner. In a piece titled Every Bernie Sanders Supporter Should Read This Today, Nina Turner shares her experience with angry Clinton supporters in an interview with Terrell Jermain Starr:

When you decided to support Sen. Sanders, did you catch any heat?

"Oh, my god yes. I've had white Hillary supporters saying to me that I betrayed the Clintons and saying I'm not going to have a future in politics. I mean, they marked me for life, and I'm sitting back thinking: The Clintons never helped me to do a thing in my life, and all of a sudden they control my destiny? That was very condescending to me."

"I had a white woman here in Ohio who supported my Secretary of State run in 2014. I'll never forget this. I was at a Planned Parenthood lecture a couple of months ago and she came up to me and said how disappointed she was in me. Very condescending. And I let her know that I really didn't care about her disappointment and I'm not on the plantation. That's exactly what I told her. Then she said, 'After all we've done for you.' Now, see. That was it for me. I interpreted that as, 'After all we've done for you, Black girl, you owe us.' They would never say that to anyone else, but the fact you feel you can say that to a Black woman? I thought she was supporting me because I was the best candidate to be Secretary of State...not because you own me or I owe you."

Whoa! Here's the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/beware-of-the-angry-white-people-supporting-hillary_b_9250538.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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Beware of the Angry White People Supporting Hillary and Spreading the 'Bernie Bro' Myth (Original Post) PatrickforO Feb 2016 OP
Lol. JTFrog Feb 2016 #1
+ a million! BlueMTexpat Feb 2016 #5
"Betrayed" the Clintons. As though they have a claim to your fealty. Jester Messiah Feb 2016 #2
I strongly suspect some of the Bernie Bros are actually Hillary supporters peacebird Feb 2016 #3
They are not Hillary supporters. MRA's maybe, but definitely not Hillary supporters. n/t JTFrog Feb 2016 #8
one of the clinton supporters here keeps talking about her "hood pass" noiretextatique Feb 2016 #4
H.A. Goodman strikes again. Strikes out. oasis Feb 2016 #6
. UglyGreed Feb 2016 #7
Wow, that was a desperate "I've got to shut this thread down" alert. marmar Feb 2016 #10
As they say desperate times UglyGreed Feb 2016 #11
Read Joan Walsh, Joy Reid, Jonathan Capehart twitter and facebook pages. nt LexVegas Feb 2016 #9
"white female Clinton supporters, petrified of losing power" JTFrog Feb 2016 #12

BlueMTexpat

(15,349 posts)
5. + a million!
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 12:32 PM
Feb 2016

And getting hides and remarks such as "you're lame," "stooping to a new low" and "you're pathetic" anytime we try to inject a note of realism into the Hillary Clinton smears.

 

Jester Messiah

(4,711 posts)
2. "Betrayed" the Clintons. As though they have a claim to your fealty.
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 12:26 PM
Feb 2016

If that doesn't just sum them right the hell up.

peacebird

(14,195 posts)
3. I strongly suspect some of the Bernie Bros are actually Hillary supporters
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 12:27 PM
Feb 2016

Their entire goal is to smear Bernie's name

noiretextatique

(27,275 posts)
4. one of the clinton supporters here keeps talking about her "hood pass"
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 12:32 PM
Feb 2016

if a bernie supporter did that, there would be a post to Skinner with 400 recs.

UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)
7. .
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 12:40 PM
Feb 2016

On Thu Feb 18, 2016, 10:27 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Beware of the Angry White People Supporting Hillary and Spreading the 'Bernie Bro' Myth
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511264141

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

"Angry white people" is just as racist as "angry black people"

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Feb 18, 2016, 10:39 AM, and the Jury voted 1-6 to LEAVE IT.

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Explanation: It's not racist. There is a difference between racism and prejudice. The alerter should learn that difference.
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Explanation: Take it up with the writer of the article on Huffpo.
 

JTFrog

(14,274 posts)
12. "white female Clinton supporters, petrified of losing power"
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 12:57 PM
Feb 2016

Afraid of losing the hundreds of years of power and influence they have had in America's political system? You mean the 19% of congress that we enjoy (the highest percentage of any congress by the way). And still there are states that have never even elected a woman to the House. The states that have not elected a woman to the House are Alaska, Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, North Dakota, and Vermont.

Dayam, let's not lose all that power women!!!!



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