28-year-old Sanders wrote article saying "old bitch" teachers cause boys to grow up and have cancer

[highplainsdem]

Please note: the offensive language in the headline was used by Bernie Sanders, quoted in a tweet about the article.

I've paraphrased the tweet above, and also corrected what she tweeted about Sanders' age. He was 28 then, not 34.

Tweet from RiotWomenn, with screenshots and a link to the article Sanders wroe for the Vermont Freeman:

Link to tweet

Bernie Sanders as an adult wrote crazy nonsense

Windmills cause cancer according to Trump

34 year old Sanders wrote a newspaper article saying "old bitch" teachers cause boys to grow up & have cancer

"Old bitch" in an article like this? Weird misogyny

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157403-sanders-cancer.html

Link to tweet

Here is the part where he called teachers "old bitches"

He has a toxic pathology about women.

We don't cause cancer anymore than windmills do

Ask Trump & Bernie ... 2 guys with "great judgement"


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPT2Z_IW4AIsZX2?format=jpg&name=small

That quote is from the second page of Sanders' two-page article.

I got eyestrain trying to find it on the first page, which was on page 6 of that issue of the Vermont Freeman.

It's from page 7 of that issue.

The third image at this link (the first two are both of the first page of the article):

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157403-sanders-cancer.html


The quote is in the last complete paragraph in column 1.


This was published in December 1969.

[NurseJackie]

1. That's messed up.

[highplainsdem]

2. That's an understatement.

[NurseJackie]

41. ...

[MisterFred]

3. Is that exactly 50 years ago?

Don't forget how old the guy is!

Personally, I have to admit I've only really been a fan of the last 30 years. Outside of that CORE stuff.

[womanofthehills]

17. I actually had an old bitch teacher in 5th grade - she was a sociopath

She loved to humiliate students in front of the whole class until they cried. We had a girl in our class who stuttered really bad and she would make this girl get in front of the whole class to give a report that the girl was not capable of doing and we would witness this girl sobbing week after week. We knew this teacher was evil. but we did not have much power in those days. This stuff would not be permitted now but it was back then. Our heads had to be straight ahead and if we turned them a quarter of an inch, she screamed at us.

Teachers in some southern states are still allowed to hit kids.

[MisterFred]

18. :( That's rough.

I have some good stories (microwaves thrown by teachers bounce a few times), but none of the teachers were actually abusive.

[highplainsdem]

22. Whether or not there were and still are some bad teachers, referring to "old bitch teachers" is

misogynistic.

[Demsrule86]

31. Well Biden is being hit on something just as old...being detained for attacking apartheid.

He has told this story for years, and I believe it is true...the ambassador everyone is breathlessly using as their 'proof' is a Republican. Honestly, this is just disgusting and I believe will kill any chance with suburban women. Sanders is already on the ropes with women. We need a different nominee.

[MisterFred]

42. Yeah, that's a stupid attack against Biden. nt

[W_HAMILTON]

4. And that's arguably one of his less offensive writings.

Wait till the other essays become more widely known among the electorate.

[apcalc]

8. Repulsive

[MisterFred]

19. They came out in 2016. nt

[highplainsdem]

23. They haven't been vetted enough yet. I'd heard of some of the silliness in this particular

article, but not about that viciously misogynistic wording.

[W_HAMILTON]

24. You can bet that most voters have not heard of them.

If Sanders becomes our nominee, Republicans will have voters being able to recite them line-by-line.

[highplainsdem]

30. Sanders adviser Tim O'Brien started bringing them up on CNN this morning.

[lostnfound]

38. Exactly. Nt

[Cha]

48. So?

[showblue22]

5. Why is it always women and girls causing cancer?

[highplainsdem]

26. Because misogynists come up with and promote these crazy theories?

[showblue22]

29. Yep.

[Demsrule86]

32. I guess some men belong to the 'woman haters club'. Did any women out there ever hear how if you

didn't go 'all the way'...it was bad for the health of the man involved? I remember that...bet most women in America and elsewhere have heard that.

[Deero]

6. in before

Sanders supporters come here to tell us why this is normal and fine.

Obama said the same thing I understand...

[elleng]

7. Thanks SO MUCH for spreading OLD crap around

NOT.

[highplainsdem]

10. This "old crap" was written by Sanders when he was 28, several years out of college, and proud

enough of this loony theory to want it published.

Sanders was only a year younger then than Biden was in his first Senate run, at which time he already had years of law practice and local government experience behind him.

[Demsrule86]

33. The GOP is going to be spreading this crap...this is why Sanders is not a good nominee for us

ln 20.

[evertonfc]

9. We need to toughen up

If Bernie is nominee there will be a deluge of this stuff and dozens of people from his past attesting to things he said. Some true and some not but there is no truth in advertising in political ads.

[mgcgulfcoast]

11. And if he is not the nominee after a barrage of hate

Thrown his way? Where do you think his voters, the only candidte with a hard core following, are going to go? This isnt normal politics we are seeing here.

[Moderateguy]

13. They will vote blue no matter what..

Or only non-Sanders supporters supposed to do this if he is the nominee?

[MisterFred]

21. We should do a poll. So far as I can tell it's mostly non-Sanders supporters saying they won'

support any Dem nominee.

[Moderateguy]

25. Go Ahead.

I did not see many Sanders supporters responding to the previous "Blue no matter What Thread". Maybe the response would be better if the thread was started by a fellow Sanders supporter

[MisterFred]

28. You didn't see a lot of Sander supporters responding to a thread that

had a bunch of anti-Sanders sentiment and accusations in it?

Noooo, really? Do tell!

[highplainsdem]

14. Quoting a candidate's past statements and writings "isn't normal politics"? LOL.

This isn't "a barrage of hate."

This is quoting what Sanders wrote and believed.

Deal with it.

[womanofthehills]

20. Joe just called a young student "a lying dog face pony soldier"

What's with that?

[Demsrule86]

36. Nice deflection...it was a joke...obviously Sanders' essay was not a joke...

[HarlanPepper]

39. Joe's old news

The media and your fellow Sanders supporters have told us so. Why would you care about what Biden is saying or doing when your candidate has the nomination and WH locked up already?

[Cha]

45. Yeah.. What About Biden?!!

[sheshe2]

16. Same place they went last time.

Not a care in the world that our courts will be in Republican hands for a century. Trump just flipped the 9th district court.

Not a care in the world that our climate dies. They are mostly youngsters that believe they will live forever.

[Demsrule86]

34. Frankly I don't give a damn. I am more and more convinced our party needs to move in a moderate

direction in order to have a 50 states strategy...and make up for those unreliable voters (left/green) many who hate Democrats and the party and who have cost us 2000,2004,2010 2014, and 2016. Enough is enough.

[Demsrule86]

37. If he is not the nominee, I will thank God...and believe we may yet have a chance to win the General

also.

[Codeine]

47. Vote for the candidate who gets the nomination?

That’s what a rational person does. If they’re going to try to hold the rest of us hostage then they can fuck right off. I know if Bernie wins the rest of us will vote for him.

[Moderateguy]

12. This

This is the stuff that Sanders actually did. Wait till Trump and the Republicans start making up stuff. If you are a Sanders supporter better develop the skin of a rhinoceros

[highplainsdem]

15. The problem with Sanders is there's so damn much baggage like this the GOP won't have to make stuff

up.

[SMC22307]

27. Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump.

Take your pick.

[Demsrule86]

35. The problem is not with us...naturally we pick Sanders...but many won't pick Sanders, and he will

lose badly...and may cost us the house. This would leave us completely helpless against a triumphant trump who already has the Senate, the judiciary and now the house...as well as justice. It is unthinkable which is why I continue to resist Sanders' nomination and believe that in the end he will not be the nominee. Sanity will hopefully prevail.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

40. 28 year old Bernie Sanders strikes me as having smoked a lot of weed.

Like, a shit ton of it.

[George II]

43. Jake Tapper looks clearly disgusted, as is SE Cupp.....

"A child has an old bitch of a teacher (and there are many of them....)"?

A Democratic candidate made that comment!!!

[Cha]

44. So they were discussing this?!

[Cha]

46. Nice guy.. and he had to get down on paper?