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In reply to the discussion: Why "Bernie was arrested in '63" is an inappropriate answer to criticism of his civil rights record [View all]Cha
(319,255 posts)99. right.. No one must have any criticism of BS at
all.
Too bad, she gave him praise.. but that goes Whoose!
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Why "Bernie was arrested in '63" is an inappropriate answer to criticism of his civil rights record [View all]
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
OP
She shouldnt have to be but she is BASHED constantly EVERYWHERE about that
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
#81
Big fail. You got your ass handed to you above. And Bernie doesnt need your kind of help
emulatorloo
Apr 2018
#128
The civil rights movement was not a gift to black people. It wasn't a movement in which white people
Exotica
Apr 2018
#10
K&R. Thank you for the work you do here. You shouldn't have to but I appreciate it.
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2018
#14
GOT Jon Snow: "Father always said everything before the word 'but' is horseshit.'
AtomicKitten
Apr 2018
#69
One may safely presume 'however', 'although' and 'yet' also used to express this alleged negation
LanternWaste
Apr 2018
#27
"he was screaming and yelling on the floor of the House but the chamber was usually empty"
BumRushDaShow
Apr 2018
#41
If it is not a bash-Sanders thread, why start it at all? Save a post like this for a reply
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#44
You scratch an open wound UNnecessarily, keeping it festering without healing. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#47
Call it that if you prefer, because it does that. It was UNnecessary to start a THREAD.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#51
Perhaps you'd like to join THIS thread, which occurred BEFORE my OP, and admonish folk not to
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#53
It's known as "vetting" a potential candidate, something that is finally being done here on DU
George II
Apr 2018
#66
Vetting is great. Opening this thread out of context is not the best way to do that, I feel. . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#79
Nonsense. Nothing I wrote implies that. I even encouraged you to use it as a reply multiple times.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#86
"Quiet Rooms" buried in various random threads in response to various random posts
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#90
Of course. I feel that creating a context like that was unnecessary for what is a "response".
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#85
If we can't give each other feedback, we lose a way to improve. You can reply to POST you mention.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#58
Purism in feedback & instruction is impractical. As if your post there didn't "instruct". & OP here.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#72
Just alert on the thread and be done with. Or else simply trash the thread
emulatorloo
Apr 2018
#132
Perhaps we should hope you take your own advice about telling people how to post. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#98
In all of these types of threads, I fail to see what terrible things Bernie has done
IronLionZion
Apr 2018
#54
Not at all - I have to preface my post with such verbiage to try to prevent the alert-mongers and
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#76
Imagine that Hillary Clinton took a year of attending Wellesley to work to desegregate
karynnj
Apr 2018
#102
It is Trumpian because Trump answers all criticisms with but What About Hillary?
emulatorloo
Apr 2018
#138
"Sanders really did put himself on the line far more than almost any white politician I have read of
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#137
"What he did was far more than an average liberal white man or woman in that time frame did"
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#143
I wasn't responding to Post 102. I was responding to the post I responded to
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#149
That, along with his certainty that his meager record entitles him to gratitude,
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#112
Not just happy, but grateful and - unless we're offering praise and thanks - silent.
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#127