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In reply to the discussion: Why all the hate towards Cornell West? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)that he didn't have the long-term relationships the Clintons had. Fine. They had longer relationships.
Fair point.
But it was never left go at that.
Instead, it was made ugly and vicious.
Bernie was falsely accused, again and again, of not caring about racism, of seeing race as less important as class(in truth he saw both as important), and of somehow being hostile to the AA community-and then the implication that Sanders supporters were somehow managing to be left-wing white supremacists(a position that pretty much isn't possible, btw-to be on the left is to be a committed antiracist, antisexist and antihomophobe).
And then it grew to the implication that, because Bernie lost the AA vote on Super Tuesday, this somehow delegitimized him as a candidate and he should have withdrawn.
In my view, it was the relentlessness of those unjust attacks that provoked a large portion of the 'bro behavior(although it still looks as though the majority of the 'bro behavior was the work of right-wing infiltrators who were just pretending to be Sanders supporters).
I hope you would agree that if nothing else Bernie never deserved the relentless, endless accusations that he didn't care about "social justice". I get it that some people preferred HRC, and everybody has the right to make their choices on their own criteria, but the smears were never needed in the service of that objective.