2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My take On Bernie- [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)The language is off putting because you define 'the people' as those who were doing better and that was not minority people, not LGBT people, not women. Your verbiage, intentionally or not says 'the average guy' is white, straight and if you are not you do not count because 'we're working on that'.
I don't see the value in this sort of verbiage. And your need to leap to hyperbole and claim I called it homophobic and racist is indicative of your lack of intellectual honesty here. It's just casually dismissive of minority issues, it is not homophobic it is simply fully heterocentric, that 'average guy' is presumed to be straight and white.
The entire point of a campaign like Bernie's is to make progress to move to a better future, not to harken back to some tainted past that might have been peaches for you while being bullshit for other people.