Your beef is with the word, yet you continuously ignore the context he's using it in.
What a thread. Ridiculous.
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Bernie Sanders Campaign Defends Use of Uncensored N-Word in 1997 Book: ‘Critiquing Racism is Not Racism’
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What a thread. Ridiculous.
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I'm not running for office so my standards are lower. Plus I'm not white.
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Of course they would.
Of course they would. There would always be someone to dig this up about X candidate and post about it since it's a sensitive subject.
They have better??
i don't believe for a single second that Biden, for example, would get the same treatment
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He could have gotten the point across by not penning nigger.
I'm black.
It as if Biden and Bernie are two different people. And even then in this context it would still be a non starter
Lots of issues to be had with bernie but this ain't one of them
Dude, come on. The guy who originally posted this was wringing his hands over it.
Letting it go to the audiobook 1:1 was a bad call but a single word in adapting a 20+ year old book into an audiobook is not something I think anyone in Sanders' circle would be paying serious attention to. They may not have even been involved beyond greenlighting it.
It's nice to have dreams.
okay, ceteris paribus, i don't believe for a single second that Biden would be getting the same treatment. at best there'd be 3-5 pages shitting on him and then a threadmark where suddenly everyone stops posting
so one entire person excuses yet another fucking group of smears of the entire community thread, got it
Right, because they so frequently end up with threads as if they were worth discussing??
again it is almost as if by Biden and Bernie Sanders with two different people with two different backgrounds.
im black and i dont care unless you're using the word as a slur to demean others.
getting upset at it being used in this context is pretty sad
Midnight Jon:
Biden has a well documented history of voting against the disenfranchised, poor and segregated citizens of the US.
Sanders does not.
There is no magic bullet to take Sanders down. If you consistently fight for the same causes for DECADES, there will be no hidden agenda to be found.
Biden has a well documented history of voting against the disenfranchised, poor and segregated citizens of the US.
Sanders does not.
There is no magic bullet to take Sanders down. If you consistently fight for the same causes for DECADES, there will be no hidden agenda to be found.
not sure how "Biden's background is considerably more hostile to POC" actually contradicts my viewpoint that a thread about him making the same academic critique would not, in fact, follow the same trajectory, but okay
And you cant even paint Bernie as racist, given that he has been consistently working towards passing laws that HELP the minorities in the US, unlike say, Uncle Joe there.
Bernie 'Racism' Sanders, right here folks:
This is pretty dope lol.
if to kill a mockingbird was written today, would harper lee really have used the n-word? think about it
It's funny
I'd much rather look at 1997 Bernie and 2019 Bernie and ask why he's become softer on how he criticizes white southerns for being racist.
Like this is being used to try and argue Sanders had a racist problem in 1997... but to me I look at that quote and how unlike a lot of his rhetoric now it accurately points out that class was not the problem in that case, it was racism. Poor whites weren't getting oppressed by their leaders because they were poor, they were getting oppressed by their leaders because they were so fucking racist they voted those people in willingly.
Where is that Sanders now? He's so much softer on that shit these days, look again at how when given the fact that white people outright refused to vote for a black man because he was black he responded that that doesn't necessarily mean they're racist! Would 1997 Bernie, 1997 Bernie who said literally that white people vote for their own economic oppression just to stick it to black people, would 1997 Bernie have said it's not racist to refuse to vote for a black person on the basis of them being black?
I'd much rather look at 1997 Bernie and 2019 Bernie and ask why he's become softer on how he criticizes white southerns for being racist.
Like this is being used to try and argue Sanders had a racist problem in 1997... but to me I look at that quote and how unlike a lot of his rhetoric now it accurately points out that class was not the problem in that case, it was racism. Poor whites weren't getting oppressed by their leaders because they were poor, they were getting oppressed by their leaders because they were so fucking racist they voted those people in willingly.
Where is that Sanders now? He's so much softer on that shit these days, look again at how when given the fact that white people outright refused to vote for a black man because he was black he responded that that doesn't necessarily mean they're racist! Would 1997 Bernie, 1997 Bernie who said literally that white people vote for their own economic oppression just to stick it to black people, would 1997 Bernie have said it's not racist to refuse to vote for a black person on the basis of them being black?
Because that's the reason why the thread would not follow the same for trajectory.
Well if Biden had any writing with the word in it'd likely be just in reference to him himself calling black people the n word.
weird how the response to "but i do have to wonder if literally any other white candidate in the race would be getting the "YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CONTEXT" treatment for this" was initially "of course they would" but now it's "of course they wouldn't" now that it's not Generic White Candidate
Apologies for not being clearer, obviously a lot of people in there just ignored it. I try not to paint everyone with a broad brush. I was trying to make the point that you said GrapeApes was literally the only person, when in fact, the only reason it was brought up in the first place was to concern troll.
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We still have Tarantino out here using it like it's going out of style so I don't think the arts would be affected.
Given the source of this article and the direction this thread is already going, we feel it's best to lock it.
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