Why is it ok to be sexist to all of the Bernie Supporters?

[northernsouthern]

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It seems like a massive double standard that we can be called "Bernie Bros" with impunity because we are voting one way regardless of you sex,age,race,orientation. If we called the Hillary camp Hillbroettes (according to urban this is the female version) the HRC camp would be up in arms. They freaked about coronation, an a sexual word. I am getting tired of these Bernie Bro posts, why, because as a decent person I abhor sexism, but the people here seem to lack the morals to know what is ok to do with certain words. If you accuse someone that cares about sexism over and over it is offensive, if you accuse someone about sexism because they are a guy? That is sexism, that is the very f@cking definition. From this point on I am just going to post the same line,"You are a sexist, your posts are insulting. NT". since it is not worth our time to deal with them, and since no one feels that is it disruptive, or offensive to go on about Bernie Bros post after post, completely off topic of the original post. I tired talking, I tried responding with equal ire, I tried ignoring, and I tried reporting...but since no one seems to see why it is offensive that is my only option. The posters don't deserve more than a simple repeated mantra of what they are doing. Sexism is a horrible thing, but to use it as a tool for your own political means is disgusting and disservice to all of the women that actually deal with it every day. Responding to them in an equally sexist way must be what they are hoping for, and it is just sick and so pathetic to watch. it seems our party has become nothing more than cons and smear artists that have little concern for the people, but only self interest .

[Meteor Man]

1. Spot on!

The term Berniebros is a weak sexist attack that does not apply to any Bernie supporters at DU, as far as I can tell.

Meaningless clickbait for Hillary trolls.

[Kalidurga]

2. cuz reasons!!!!!!!

Hillary is a woman so if you don't love her you are sexist.

[winter is coming]

3. It's a common internet ploy.

Accuse someone of something unpleasant (often something you yourself are guilty of), and when you've made them angry, act all hurt and much maligned by their response, using that as "proof" that you were right in the first place.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat. It eats up time while drawing attention away from anything of substance. Sometimes it makes the atmosphere so toxic that no meaningful discussion at all is possible. Basically, if there's nothing you won't stoop to, it's easy to derail a discussion.

[northernsouthern]

4. You are right.

I knew the poster was doing it, so I tried flagging the post, but realized it was the earlier one that was more sexist so flagged that one. The jury came back with no hide with no reason given, then no hide with "This is a benign opinion about a candidate, so NOT personal. The alerter is a childish whiner. Grow up or get out of GD-P. NOT ALERTABLE OR HIDEABLE."

They person kept spamming so I selected the worst one because I felt they must not have seen the whole thread (only served on the jury once, and forgot how it worked) and got this...

I don't have problem with the post. Accusations of being jingoistic or sexist are weak and overused, but also commonplace.
Berniebros is a weak ad hominem attack and possibly offensive, but within the acceptable DU norms as far as I can tell.
If the poster is being repetitively disruptive that's a different issue. I vote to leave it alone.

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But I posted...
This person has only been disruptive, accusing my group of sexism by using the sexist terms "Bros" repeatedly over and over.

Do people not care, not research the post?


Either way it seems being sexist is not something we should be okay with?

[JonLeibowitz]

5. It's part of Brock's $1M troll campaign..

Excellent read here: http://www.carlbeijer.com/2016/04/who-got-owned-by-clintons-million.html

[northernsouthern]

6. Good find

Everyone's having a good laugh over Hillary Clinton's ridiculous million dollar troll campaign. Oddly enough, this seems to include a lot of people who got caught up in it. As far as I can tell, the idea seems to be that if you did not personally enlist in the War Against Bernie Bros, and maintained some degree of agnosticism or ambivalence over the whole affair, that you managed to escape complicity in Clinton's idiotic scheme.

I take it not many escaped (here).