Bernie Sanders hits Hillary Clinton for using the racist term "superpredators"
The former secretary of state is once again coming under fire for using the word “super-predators.”
While sparring over criminal justice policy during Thursday’s Democratic primary debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) accused Hillary Clinton of using a “racist term” in 1996.
Clinton has faced significant criticism for previously using the word “super-predators,” a now-debunked term that she said at the time referred to children with “no conscience, no empathy” who were committing crimes and had to be brought “to heel.”
At a campaign event in New York City earlier this week, Sanders jabbed Clinton for using the phrase, calling it “unacceptable.”
“I think we all know what that term meant in the context that it was said years ago,” he said. “We know who they were talking about.”
He took that criticism a step further when asked during the debate to explain why he had called Clinton out.
“Because it was a racist term, and everybody knew it was a racist term,” he responded.
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