Right-wing media and the origins of the Bernie "doesn't care about minorities" meme.

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40. I think you know exactly what you've been doing in pushing this meme for the past 2 months.

I would never say that you don't have free agency, and I wouldn't say that about anyone else either - and certainly not a wide-ranging twitter based movement like #blacklivesmatter which exists because people are responding to a real problem.

The meme that you've been promoting, that Bernie Sanders is the tone deaf paternalistic condescending (almost)racist, has legs and there's blood in the water, and you're in your glory.

I do think that you're coopting #blacklivesmatter for partisan purposes. I think that this partisan coopting of the message to attack Bernie Sanders, particularly of all politicians, is orchestrated. For saying that, I'll be accused of being a racist for whom black lives don't matter, for whom the problem doesn't matter - I'll be accused of all manner of nasty things. But you know what, at this point I don't care - because I don't think the accusers are honest, I think they're putting on a highly partisan show and that they're trying their damnedest (and succeeding) in inflaming, rather than discussing. The OP shows that certain "pundits" were on the ball on this meme from the get-go as well. That doesn't surprise me. I think those pundits have free agency as well.