Bernie's Seattle moment and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

[JDPriestly]

Has everyone seen this?

[The Roux Comes First]

1. Probably Nearly Everyone Multiple Times, Frankly

Lacking only the disparaging oom-pah band.

I believe I was on vacation at the time and was shocked at the reporting I read and saw on this, an event that took place a block away from my workplace. The media was already in full-on bring-down-Bernie mode.

In the succeeding weeks I came to feel that this was one of those exceedingly rare examples of a very public ego succeeding in suppressing that ego with minimal display of umbrage and subsequently giving every sign of having turned it into a dramatically self-educational opportunity. Which he has continued to do well with ever since.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. The media probably saw it as their 'Dean Scream' moment, figured they'd knock him right out

of the race right at the beginning.

I think it did do damage, but he's too tough to just get knocked out as easily as Dean.

[malokvale77]

2. Bernie Sanders was well educated on racism.

BLM didn't know anything about Bernie Sanders, except for the fact that he was accessible.

Go Bernie and all us supporters.

[JDPriestly]

4. Bernie was born around the time of WWII.

He grew up hearing about racism and the Holocaust.

A lot of Americans don't realize that WWII and the NAZIs were about racism.

But they were.

The NAZIs considered the German "race"????? to be superior to all other people.

It's crazy, but then racism is crazy.

Nowadays, Americans would laugh if you told them that Jewish people were considered by the NAZIs to be a different race. But they were. That's what WWII was about to a surprising extent.

Bernie knows what it is to be part of a group that is targeted based on some crazy reason.