2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Where is Bernie Sanders on Gender Justice? [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)"I want to support Bernie. I really do. ...But I have to ask. Why does Bernie struggle so much to talk about gender? Why is it like pulling teeth for him to talk about my identity as a woman in addition to my identity as a worker?"
That is just total ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT. All she needed to do was use the Google machine to see where Sanders stands and what he has done. He has always been ore than willing to "talk about (her) identity as a woman."
Perhaps his campaign needs to do more production of the 25-point issue papers that people never read, and organize his website a little better.
But that is a far cry from "struggling" with gender and "pulling teeth" to get him to talk about it. It's campaign mechanics.
ANYONE who knows how to type in a search term on Google or Bing or wherever can find endless examples of where Sanders stands, what he has said, what he has done.
No it is like calling the person a racist and apathetic about criminal injustice -- when in reality in the "tough on crime" era in the early 1990's that same candidate stood up on the House floor and castigated a crime bill at the time as a "vengeance bill, a retribution bill" and went on to basically strongly criticize a justice system that "disproportionally punishes blacks"
IF people want to disagree with him on policies in real terms, Okay. Fair game. But trying to put memes out there that Sanders is the OPPOSITE of who he is.....That is not justifiable "gentle questioning."