Jason Johnson calls Sanders staff "misfit black girls"

[melman]

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[Sloumeau]

1. This will not end well. nt

[still_one]

2. Have no idea who Jason Johnson is

[melman]

3. Then I guess you don't watch MSNBC

He's on there all the time.

[still_one]

8. Not.t usually.. i avoid the cable news outlets. Thanks

[Me.]

41. Writer For The Root

[still_one]

42. Thanks

[underthematrix]

4. Political science professor who's always on my TV. Not a fan

but I do like the #MisfitBlackGirls

[Autumn]

9. I'm not surprised at all. nt

[Anon-C]

30. It's a very demeaning and ugly thing to say. He's wrong and should say so on his biggest platform.

[Autumn]

31. Johnson needs to be gone and never have another platform. Fuck anything else he says.

[snowybirdie]

5. I've been listening

to this commentator on MSNBC, and not liking his ideas. Others on panels tend to disagree with him. A terrible thing to say about campaign workers. Bye, bye tv gigs!

[Cal Carpenter]

6. That's fucked up

I like reading Michael Harriot and Stephen Crockett on the Root, even when I don't agree with them (which is often lol), but Jason Johnson often repeats falsehoods and with this? He has gone too far imho. And I think he's officially their politics editor? If so, maybe not for long now...

[Autumn]

7. Well bless his heart. I mean really bless Jason Johnsons little heart.

[spicysista]

10. Sometimes, Jason gets it right.

Sometimes, he gets it really wrong!

[Gothmog]

11. These two were Stein voters

A vote for Jill Stein was a vote for Russia and trump

[R B Garr]

29. +1000, they are misfit for sure.

[Gothmog]

46. A vote for Stein was a vote for trump and Putin

sanders has shown some really poor judgement on staffing decisions with stein supporters being in the top positions of his campaign and in hiring and not firing a liar like Sirota

[melman]

12. Briahna Joy Gray

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[OnDoutside]

14. Jeez, Gray has some neck to be moralising.

[melman]

15. Oh, so she's not allowed to respond to attacks because you don't like her?

Okay.

[OnDoutside]

16. In light of her disgraceful Bloomberg accusations, you'd think she might be a bit more tempered in

her own comments, when others go over the edge.

[highplainsdem]

19. You mean Ms. Lie-and-then-say-it-was-misspeaking?

[melman]

22. No

I mean Briahna Joy Gray. I don't name-call.

[highplainsdem]

25. You don't name-call?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=534533

And btw, it's "rein in." Not "reign in."

[melman]

26. No

Wow a spelling mistake. You really got me there.

[highplainsdem]

32. So calling someone a clown isn't name-calling? LOL.

[melman]

33. It's Steve Schimdt

How else would you describe the Republican operative that gave us Sarah Palin?

[highplainsdem]

34. Well, then, my description of Sanders' serial-liar press secretary was perfectly apt.

[melman]

13. Cori Bush

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[hlthe2b]

17. Yikes...

[dsc]

18. So now he is a problem

he trashed Pete for months and months, and crickets but let him trash Sanders' staff and he is now a problem.

[DanTex]

20. He's been trashing Bernie for months and months too.

[ecstatic]

21. Wow! lol. MSNBC should sever ties? For what?

Bernie is the one who keeps defending himself by saying "ask the black women from my campaign."

It's a baffling line.

What exactly should we be asking them? I don't know Bernie's full list of surrogates, but Nina Turner and the younger one (forgot her name) are batshit crazy. Rosario Dawson gets an honorable mention because she seems to have toned it down recently.

[Blue_true]

23. Believe it or not Samuel, when a Black use that term, the meaning is vastly

different than when a White use it. The man is using misfit to point out that the Blsck women that Sanders is trotting out don't seem to have a clue about the problems that exist in Black communities, the fact that Sanders seem to believe that solving income inequality by default solves racism shows that neither he nor his senior staff that is Black understand what they are saying.

[melman]

24. The women in the studio didn't seem to see it that way

[Blue_true]

27. Were the women in the studio Black women? nt

[melman]

28. Did you not watch the clip?

[Blue_true]

35. No. Easy enough for you to say, were the women in the studio Black? nt

[melman]

36. Yes they were

[Blue_true]

38. Who were they? nt

[melman]

39. How about you just watch the clip

It's right there in the first post.

[Blue_true]

40. Who they are matters. If they are Sanders admirers, I take their reaction with a boulder-sized

grain of salt.

[Squinch]

37. Heh.

[Gothmog]

43. I am not a fan of Prof. Johnson normally

These comments make me almost like him

[radius777]

44. Jason Johnson nails it.

People like Joe Rogan, Cenk/TYT, Krystal Ball, Glen Greenwald - even when not outwardly racist are all about centering the white working class, while pushing PoC/women etc to the background and demonizing our success. Obama, Hillary, Kamala are all 'bad' - yet alot of these same 'populists' don't think a white man like Trump(the ultimate greedy conman) is really that bad.

All politics are identity politics.

Remember when the Stein/Sanders movement started on the left there were very few PoC, but the media pushes it as 'hip' (to appeal to the coveted 18-45 white demographic) and this has influenced some misguided PoC to join in and not see the larger narrative.

Jason Johnson as a black man with lived experiences understands the con game going on, with the party being stolen right out from under the feets of blacks/browns/women etc - to the benefit of 'FDR whites'.

[Gothmog]

45. Is this a distraction?

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