Ava Duvernay receives death threats from Bernie Sanders supporters

[octoberlib]

Last edited Mon Feb 24, 2020, 09:08 PM - Edit history (1)

Ava Duvernay is one of the most celebrated Black creatives of our time, but over the weekend the award-winning director found herself in the crosshairs of overzealous Bernie Sanders supporters who took issue with her for critiquing their candidate.

Friday evening, the Vermont Senator tweeted out, “I’ve got news for the Republican establishment. I’ve got news for the Democratic establishment. They can’t stop us.”

"I’m undecided. But I know this isn’t what I want,” she wrote in response to Sanders’ tweet Saturday.

“Ava what is it that you want then? A little surprised with your tweet. Since I have always seen you as a progressive woman,” wrote one woman to which the filmmaker responded, “So you’re saying if I disagree with his statement that I’m not a progressive woman? Is that what you’ve just written here?”


“People on here getting emotional about one man without keeping their eye on the real ball,” she elaborated, then added, “I understand exactly what he’s saying here and I don’t agree with it. He can’t win that way. And he surely cannot govern that way. How’s he gonna get anything passed? How’s he gonna move anything forward?” However, once the discussion became ugly and violent, DuVernay tapped out, posting, “Bernie supporters terrorizing my mentions while I’m off enjoying my Saturday.”

https://thegrio.com/2020/02/24/ava-duvernay-receives-death-threats-from-bernie-sanders-supporters/

Link to tweet

[Skya Rhen]

1. This should help him with the black votes.

[relayerbob]

2. Disgusting

Gotta wonder who is real or not when online these days. I avoid twitter like the plague is it and use the FB block feature often. If I see some asshole spouting off, I check his page. Many times they look suspicious, and if so, I call them Russians in one way or another. Most of the time, they disappear. If not, or if they appear to be simply nut jobs, of whatever affiliation, they are blocked. No one needs those sorts of threats in their life. I feel sorry for this woman.

[octoberlib]

6. Plenty of them have blue check marks

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bernie-sanders-campaign-russia-bots-trolls-bros-2020-election-a9352026.html

[OliverQ]

3. Prove they're actual Bernie supporters.

[blm]

8. It's pretty much what I experience online, even from

people I’ve known for years.

[relayerbob]

10. Same here. People I know, and have met in person, ir were even close to

They can't turn off the negative for even a little while. Everyone is the enemy. It appears easy to radicalize people on the internet

[PatSeg]

31. It is like the whole has gone nuts

It is so bizarre.

[relayerbob]

32. If it can't be boiled down to a tweet, then it's meaningless

and, IMO, almost nothing of substance can be boiled down to a tweet.

The GOP has won its war on education and intelligence. Didn't even have to destroy books or professors to do so. A whole generation or two of people have willingly handed over their interest in learning and thinking. My parents and their parents all wanted a better life and better education than they had. That ethic seems to have been systematically destroyed

[PatSeg]

34. Sadly, I have to agree with you

So many of those science fiction futuristic books and movies seem to be coming true. It can be very disorienting seeing it happen in real life everyday.

[relayerbob]

35. Future shock has caught up to us

Struck the Trumpers 15-20 years ago

[rzemanfl]

9. Want it quantified too? Some people here insist on that. n/t

[Alliepoo]

12. Prove they're not.

Sounds about right. Nothing new. The BBs were vicious last election too.

[McKim]

20. Can You Prove This?

Can you prove this? This sounds like agent provocateur or countelpro stuff to me. When will the flood of anti Sanders garbage stop on this site? is it time for me to go and let Biden fans take over DU?

[FreeState]

22. Stop making excuses for bad behavior n/t

[Orrex]

23. The better challenge is for Sanders to prove that they're not his supporters

Because if he sits on his hands, relying on the goodwill of the electorate that he's working so hard to alienate, he's going to be in for a heck of a shock when people interpret a tepid non-response as tacit endorsement.

I'd like to hear his firm and explicit disavowal of these purportedly false supporters. Or are there "good people on both sides?"

[reACTIONary]

24. You mean that if ....

.... you say you support Bernie and you defend Bernie you might not be a Bernie supporter?

[Cha]

37. lol.. I just explained that whole thing to him..

[Cha]

36. Ava said she didn't like BS' tweet.. .. and she was attacked

Who else is going to attack her for not caring for his tweet?

Friday evening, the Vermont Senator tweeted out, “I’ve got news for the Republican establishment. I’ve got news for the Democratic establishment. They can’t stop us.”

"I’m undecided. But I know this isn’t what I want,” she wrote in response to Sanders’ tweet Saturday.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Ava wasn't the only one.. lets see them go after Vincent..

Link to tweet

[reACTIONary]

38. +100

[betsuni]

4. K&R

[Beakybird]

5. They're a minority of his supporters, but sadly a large minority.

[relayerbob]

11. Agreed that they are a minority

but there are still alot of them, and far more than I see from any other campaign. I've never been attacked by anyone from any other campaign. This time, or in 2016. Always pro-Bernie, whether they are legit people I know, or unknowns that I simply ignore

[ProfessorPlum]

43. pretty sure there is no evidence of either of these statements

[SidDithers]

7. ...

Sid

[mcar]

13. What a surprise - Sanders supporters attacking someone

who offers a sensible comment.

[iluvtennis]

21. ++ agree. nt

[aikoaiko]

14. The article documented one vague death threat that appeared to allude to the French revolution

I don't condone it, but one would have to believe the people will be bringing out the guillotine to take it as a serious death threat

[Tweedy]

29. ?? Death threats

Are death threats even when cloaked in the Reign of Terror, otherwise known as the French Revolution ok? No

Did you know Guillotine was guillotined?

Sincerely hope that sick Jacobite is actually a starving Russian posting for his overlord, the Thief of all the Russias, who simply must be shirtless

& seriously whoever that fool was, way to be thin skinned in the face of a critique.

Perhaps if Bernie, his own dang self, stopped creating "the alternative fact" that the GOP enablers and the Democratic resistance are equivalent, democrats everywhere would be more receptive to his message.

Agree Bernie's supporters should not be ignored. That does not mean they get to verbally kick the rest of us in the face.

We are in this together, or surely the parasite GOP will stay in power.

[Codeine]

33. The tweet beneath that

is much more obvious, referring to her being taken out, and getting capped.

[uponit7771]

15. Jus damn

[dalton99a]

16. Looks like insufficient adoration is a crime in Bernieworld

[Tweedy]

30. Yes, unfortunately

And worse some in the press think this is a good thing for the coming struggle.

Here is the thing, though.

Barack Obama's support is (& was) wide, deep and stable. It remained so without the need to villify or ridicule allies.

Bernie's support & even his campaign alienates friends. One of his top staffers claimed "birtherism!" in response to a medical records question. That is absurd.

Bernie's supporters need a thicker skin. The candidate needs to move into the 21st century. Then, Senator Sanders would have a chance to unite us all.

[Cha]

40. Ava was not passing

the test. She learned the hard way..

Do you think she's going to consider BS for her candidate after this?

[SCantiGOP]

17. I had a Biden sticker on my car a month ago

My wife had one for Warren.
We have both just about decided to vote for Sanders in the SC primary this weekend.
For me, posts like this have helped push me in that direction. The sheer hysteria and paranoia of the Never Bernies, as evidenced by serious claims that those posts were death threats, are bullshit.

We are also fed up with the completely unfounded assertions that Bernie can’t beat Trump, when most polls show him with the largest lead of any other Dem candidate. While Bernie continues to accrue delegates, supporters and money, Biden and Warren have been consistently underperforming for the past month.

[Cha]

41. For me this OP just

illustrates the never ending bullying that goes on to people who have the slightest disagreement with BS.

I want a leader who will Unite the Democratic Party .. not someone who denigrates it every at every chance.

[warmfeet]

18. Gosh, I wish there were more threads bashing Bernie.

Better learn to live with Bernie folks, he just might be your nominee.

You have exactly two alternatives at that point.

Do everything in your power to make sure he gets elected, or -
give up in despair and accept another four years of Donald John Trump as POTUS.

Your choice.

I made my choice when he announced his candidacy. I will give up my life, if need be, to ensure his defeat and I ain't talking about Bernie.

[capechacon]

19. Gosh...just imagine that...

Bernie supporters acting like aggressive jerks....AGAIN??? Nah...can't be can it??

[Cha]

27. shocking I know..

[NurseJackie]

25. Of course.

Sick.

[peggysue2]

26. Charming!

Sure to change many minds. Because harassing potential voters works so well.

[SunSeeker]

28. That is so fucked up. nt

[Cha]

39. A mild disagreeing tweet and

Ava gets viciously attacked.

They aren't helping their candidate.. just the opposite.

[radius777]

42. the hard-left has violent ideation which is evident on social media

where they can't pretend to be 'democratic' socialists or whatever they like to spin.

their pathological jealousy of the rich, which is overblown considering most of them are middle class first worlders (courtesy of capitalism, which gives them computers, videogames, twitter, etc where they can play 'revolutionary'), imo has more todo with entitlement and narcissism than any 'real' need.

it also shows how clueless they are about race/gender/etc - which has for hundreds of years been the true oppression. being wealthy never saved blacks or jews or women or gays from being relegated to second class citizens, violence, genocide, etc.

[Gothmog]

44. Who is surprised by this?

[Blue_Tires]

45. Any Berners care to step in and defend this?

[Blue_Tires]

46. I mean, seriously...

I may have a lot of vitriol for Berners, but even I've never said their heads should be chopped off or they should all be lined up against a wall and shot like animals...

[Cha]

47. KICK