Have y'all seen this Bernie handshake?!??!!

[FlatBaroque]

Can this dude get any cooler?

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[Biaviians]

1. This gives me joy!

Thank you for sharing!

[FlatBaroque]

3. your reply gave me joy

thanks for replying. Bernie creates LOVE.

[roguevalley]

36. Some people have cool inherent. He is one.

[Zira]

49. +1

[Avalux]

2. Awesome gif! Bernie's in the flow!

It's not a big thing really, but I love it.

[FlatBaroque]

6. Have you noticed how he has gained in confidence and stature

I was wondering the other night how it must affect a person to see his message resonating with these throngs of citizens every night.

[Avalux]

7. Yes I have.

I saw a photo of him and Jane in the car driving the Vatican. Bernie had the biggest, genuine grin on his face. Again, not a big thing, but he rings true in everything he does and I connect with that.

[pat_k]

4. Thanks for posting!

[demwing]

5. It's the one and only Bern.I.E.

[NWCorona]

8. I have this bookmarked

[uponit7771]

9. "when you talk about ghettos traditionally, what you talk about is African-American communities. "

[JI7]

11. This doesn't belong in this thread

[uponit7771]

12. lol... I'm going to post it as long as his campaign is pushing the southern shit..

... biggest dog whistle of the campaign

[JI7]

17. it only makes you look bad

This thread wasn't about anything other than the handshake.

[uponit7771]

18. I wholeheartedly disagree, I made sure Clinton camp in 08 didn't forget her dog whistles either

[roguevalley]

37. southern strategy. predators. shall I continue?

[jack_krass]

30. Dog whistles require malice. I dont think Bernie has

an ounce of malice in him, and though what he said didnt sound good in retrospect, I truly dont think he meant any harm with his comments.

True dog whistles are designed to appeal to the absolute worst instinct in the audience. Some examples:

-Hillary talking about hard working southern whites while campaigningm
-Hillary's campaign spreading rumors about Obamas religion and heritage.
-Hillary talking about super predators

[uponit7771]

31. Un, it was hard to give him benefit of the doubt after Cornell West but the southern states shit ...

... and the rest of statement makes me lean the other way.

Hillary is winning states that look like America in demographics while Sanders not so much and then he minimizes red states HRC one that are mostly the US demographic.

Nah, not giving the guy the benefit of the doubt any longer

[roguevalley]

38. you never did before.

[uponit7771]

45. Podium Bird tell you that too?

[hellofromreddit]

47. But it's the Hillary campaign pushing it.

[uponit7771]

48. That "southern states" are the confederacy!? nah, ..

[MaeScott]

67. Let's see...who had the "hard working white voters"

....."biggest fairy tale I've ever seen"
People in glass houses and all that.

Which Hillary?

[morningfog]

13. Your keyboard is broken. It keeps posting off topic nonsense.

[uponit7771]

14. Nah, Sanders southern states is a dog whistle.. might as well bring up the rest of his shit

[morningfog]

16. Oh bullshit. It is no a dog whistle. You have now credibility on this

since your racist apologia for Bill Clinton's racist rant.

[uponit7771]

19. Clinton campaign using dog whistles about "southern states" ? tia

[morningfog]

21. Bill Clinton's racist rant that you endorsed.

[uponit7771]

23. No racism in the rant, no matter what the Podium Bird says

[morningfog]

24. And that is where you lose any and all credibility.

[uponit7771]

25. Credibility = Making shit up?! really?! sigh

[morningfog]

26. Credibility= calling out racist comments no matter who says it.

Calling an African American woman a girl, telling her black lives matter in Africa, telling her she is supporting and defending murderers, defending Hillary calling KIDS super predators and more.

[uponit7771]

32. Racist statements doesn't mean anything that came out of HRC's mouth... this primary

[morningfog]

33. According to you. But I'm taking about Bill.

And your approval of his racist rant paired with your compulsion to repeatedly post an off topic quote from Bernie.

[uponit7771]

34. I've seen no racist rant, again.. people calling clouds dog doesn't make them dogs

[morningfog]

35. Exactly! You choose when to take offense.

It's obvious.

[uponit7771]

46. yeap, one groups gets beenfit of the doubt the others not... any questions? tia

[Viva_La_Revolution]

20. super predator

It'a racist term, and everyone knows it

[uponit7771]

22. Only stupid racist people think super predators describes blacks exclusively

[Viva_La_Revolution]

27. the way they used it, it did. I remember discussing this with my husband when they were first

saying it. He agreed with them, that's when i woke up to the fact that i had married a bigot. Divorced him a few years later.

[uponit7771]

28. Yes, we agree... the way "they" ... meaning stupid racist people.. use the term is racist the

... way everyone else was using it at the time didn't mean blacks exclusively

[Viva_La_Revolution]

29. they means the Clintons and the republicans at the time

Blaming all the crime on 'urban' populations, another of those code words from back then

[uponit7771]

56. Link and quote the Clintons saying they were black? tia

[beam me up scottie]

40. You mean like how "stupid racist people" think AAs live in ghettos exclusively?

[uponit7771]

57. Yeap, especially when they're directly associated with ghettos in the same sentence... you got it

[beam me up scottie]

58. Google the word 'traditionally' (hint: it doesn't mean 'exclusively')

[uponit7771]

68. He wasn't talking about traditionally, gas lighting doesn't work with progressives

[beam me up scottie]

70. He used the word traditionally so yeah, he kinda was talking about traditionally.

[uponit7771]

72. More gas lighting, he wasn't talking about traditional ghettos ... sigh, this is sad

[beam me up scottie]

74. It is sad that you can't comprehend what 'traditionally' means.

I did tell you to Google it.

[uponit7771]

75. so he said "traditional ghettos"?! BMUS, this is sad k?... stop... its sad

[beam me up scottie]

77. Actually you said that, please stop digging, watching that hole get deeper and deeper is what's sad.

[hellofromreddit]

50. That's like defending the use of "n***ers" because you clearly just mean the bad ones

Racist language (and all bigoted language) depends on being imprecise--oversimplifying a group and giving room to let people bleed in their own biases. Bigoted language is meant to drive at people's emotions, not their reasoning--clear definitions would interfere with that. Nobody's bigoted against people exactly 6'1" tall or who have exactly $8 in their wallets--they're bigoted against whole groups they can paint with broad brushes. Lazy Mexicans, violent blacks, racist whites, conniving Jews, etc.

Pretending some racist bullshit line is somehow acceptable because the speaker only means some of "them" is clearly dishonest.

Case in point: "They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

[vintx]

39. This Video SHOULD Cost Hillary The Black Vote

[uponit7771]

59. Clintons get the benefit of the doubt, the person who had someone call Obama niggerized

... last year stump for him in front of mostly white IA and NH does not

[beam me up scottie]

62. Lol! SPIN SPIN SPIN that talking point!

[uponit7771]

64. Ad homs are an indicator of a weak position

[beam me up scottie]

65. You're the expert on both, you keep recycling that stale talking point like it's relevant. ;)

[uponit7771]

69. It is, Sanders Cornell West move and this southern states crap deminishes the benefit of the doubt

[beam me up scottie]

71. ARGLE BARGLE CORNELL WEST WORD SALAD SQUAWK!

[uponit7771]

73. Ad homs are an indicator of a weak position

[beam me up scottie]

79. Red herrings are an indication that you have no position to refute.

Why waste my time? No matter what the subject you always post about ghettos, Cornell West and the 'podium bird' even though they have nothing to do with the topic at hand. It's like watching some sort of bizarre performance art.

[vintx]

81. So Hillary's personal support for policies which negatively impact

Black Americans to this day doesn't matter to you,

But guilt by association dues?

Hillary supporters are a trip.

[Luminous Animal]

43. Tell me smart guy, who lived in american ghettos?

[uponit7771]

60. In context? Poor people... for ignorant or racist people it was only blacks

[beam me up scottie]

78. Well you're the only one claiming it's only blacks so...

[Desert805]

44. I've asked before

but how is what he said untrue and/or offensive?

[uponit7771]

61. Because it's untrue and something pushed by the Reagan admin during the 80s. Most blacks...

... aren't poor and even most poor blacks don't live in "ghettos" (context of conversation)

[Desert805]

84. He didn't say that and you (should) know it.

I don't want to assume you're being dishonest, so I'll just say (again) you're wrong.

[nadinbrzezinski]

51. Here is another image of the first ghetto in history

And this is a JEWISH GETTHO in the Untied States. (In Chicago by the way)



You keep posting this and trying to gaslight me on Jewish history and the United States, ok.

Of course I saw already above that you do not care about any of this for real. So there are words crossing my mind...

[uponit7771]

63. Those aren't poor areas, that was the connotation of the statement not people grouped in an area

... based on their religion.

That's the Sanders camp excuse to make themselves feel good about his ignorant statement

[FlatBaroque]

76. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

FEEL THE BERN

[CoffeeCat]

10. This is awesome!

I like the expression on the guy's face, and the little nod.

[FlatBaroque]

15. ..and his furious clapping right afterwards...priceless!

[vintx]

41. Some people are genuine and honest, and some are phonies and liars.

Bernie is real.

[AzDar]

42. Bernie!!

[beam me up scottie]

52. That was great!

And watching the peanut gallery get their panties in a wad over a handshake in this thread is just the icing on the cake.

[choie]

53. Beauty!

[senz]

54. I loved how Bernie went with it. Didn't miss a beat.

[pa28]

55. Hillary could totally do that too!~

[FlatBaroque]

66. With a bird on her shoulder (A Vulture Capitalist, of course) /

[Tarc]

80. This is the totality of Sanders' outreach to the A-A community; optics

The cultural appropriation of a handshake isn't going to win anyone over, kids.

[vintx]

82. Omfg, you're actually calling this cultural appropriation?!

[beedle]

83. Have had it in my Sig for a few days :-)