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Berned Out
Twelve things Berners tell me and why I think they’re precious.
Bernie Sanders supporters are known for their incredibly divisive self-righteous attitudes. On more than one occasion members of my family have expressed concern that I might be targeted for violence due to my outspoken insistence on actually vetting man who’s put himself forward as a candidate for President. And they’re not being paranoid. At least two women I follow on twitter have been victims of a SWAT attack. That is Bernie supporters not only doxxed them, but called up their local police and filed a false report causing a SWAT team to attack their residence. These two women were specifically targeted for that because they are both black and therefore are at greater statistical risk of being killed by police.
So, to simplify this, a movement known for being largely white and male were so threatened by a pair of black female authors and their political opinion that they took out a racially motivated hit on them with the hopes of silencing them and anyone who held similar political beliefs. And these same guys get upset when I compare them to the Hitler youth movement. (Specifically, they’ll remind me that Bernie’s totes def Jewish. They’ve never asked if I, with my name, might myself be Jewish, but Bernie totes def is and therefore above reproach except free Palestine.)
