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In reply to the discussion: Bernie alumni seek meeting to address 'sexual violence' on '16 campaign [View all]pnwmom
(108,977 posts)36. The Bros' public behavior on Twitter, for one thing. Even Bernie acknowledged it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sanders-calls-bernie-bros-disgusting
Bernie Sanders addressed his sexist supporters, the so-called "Bernie Bros," in an interview with Jake Tapper on Sunday morning. "I have heard about it," he said. "It's disgusting. Look we don't want that crap." He added that the campaign doesn't want anybody who is supporting him that does "sexist things." "That is not what this campaign is about," Sanders concluded.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/evanmcsan/the-bernie-bros#.wjPAy5Qxb
In fact, top Sanders campaign aides have quietly reached out to senior officials in the Clinton campaign and women like Walsh personally to apologize for Bro behavior. Online, aides are pushing their digital community to police itself and keep the Bros quiet. And some volunteer members of Sanderss digital army are scrambling into action, reporting offenders and moderating bro-y posts.
Still, the Bros break through, and theres real worry in corners of Sanders-world about it.
On Thursday, the BBC catalogued social media attacks on black pundits and women who opine on Bernie. Mashable posted a ton of screenshots of Bro attacks Friday morning.
Their vaginas are making terrible choices! wrote a Sanders supporter in the comments under a photo of New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Clinton. The New Yorkers Emily Nussbaum recently complained of being called a psycho and a bitch on Twitter after saying something positive about Clinton.
Bernie Sanders addressed his sexist supporters, the so-called "Bernie Bros," in an interview with Jake Tapper on Sunday morning. "I have heard about it," he said. "It's disgusting. Look we don't want that crap." He added that the campaign doesn't want anybody who is supporting him that does "sexist things." "That is not what this campaign is about," Sanders concluded.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/evanmcsan/the-bernie-bros#.wjPAy5Qxb
In fact, top Sanders campaign aides have quietly reached out to senior officials in the Clinton campaign and women like Walsh personally to apologize for Bro behavior. Online, aides are pushing their digital community to police itself and keep the Bros quiet. And some volunteer members of Sanderss digital army are scrambling into action, reporting offenders and moderating bro-y posts.
Still, the Bros break through, and theres real worry in corners of Sanders-world about it.
On Thursday, the BBC catalogued social media attacks on black pundits and women who opine on Bernie. Mashable posted a ton of screenshots of Bro attacks Friday morning.
Their vaginas are making terrible choices! wrote a Sanders supporter in the comments under a photo of New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Clinton. The New Yorkers Emily Nussbaum recently complained of being called a psycho and a bitch on Twitter after saying something positive about Clinton.
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Bernie alumni seek meeting to address 'sexual violence' on '16 campaign [View all]
boston bean
Dec 2018
OP
The Bros' public behavior on Twitter, for one thing. Even Bernie acknowledged it.
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#36
"But Bernie supporters held the 'Hillary 2016 for Prison' signs up at their rallies, too ..
betsuni
Dec 2018
#74
Never before had I seen such elaborately hateful venom directed at supporters of Democrats.
betsuni
Jan 2019
#262
Short of hunting and putting Bernie Bros down for a dirt nap, what exactly could be done to stop it?
DRoseDARs
Dec 2018
#124
According to the response, actions were taken. Up to and including immediate firing.
DRoseDARs
Dec 2018
#128
Clearly the actions taken were grossly insufficient, given the things said in the letter,
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#130
Downthread, another poster links to Alex Thompson's posting the letter and the response.
DRoseDARs
Dec 2018
#135
Begin by addressing the allegation of sexual violence and a predatory culture WITHIN the campaign.
lapucelle
Dec 2018
#168
At one tme one wouldn't have had to move far from this forum to get an inkling of that.
fleabiscuit
Dec 2018
#127
True, but, as supporters of Sanders, these are people who would want to put the best possible spin
LongtimeAZDem
Dec 2018
#165
All conveniently kept quiet so the Hillary and Dem party bashing could continue...
brush
Dec 2018
#75
The one that hates Democrats because they fell for fake news and conspiracy theories.
betsuni
Dec 2018
#137
Yes there were rumors over a period of time, for many it was "unmentionable".
George II
Dec 2018
#33
"Organizers of the effort said they did not intend for the letter to become public, but they
Cha
Dec 2018
#6
And SS getting all outraged because Huerta spoke in both English and Spanish. Such a doosh. nt
fleabiscuit
Dec 2018
#134
The campaign did, during the 2016 campaign. And during the 2018 reelection campaign.
DRoseDARs
Dec 2018
#22
You'll have to ask them. Maybe they feel efforts didn't go far enough. Maybe they could be improved.
DRoseDARs
Dec 2018
#30
If we looked at all the incidents we'd know that there was virtually no control over workers....
George II
Dec 2018
#24
That Cummings video was outside the Convention Hall several hours before the...
George II
Dec 2018
#200
There is a pattern of sanders either condoning or actively ignoring the actions of his supporters
Gothmog
Dec 2018
#207
I look forward to the transparency, honesty, and soul searching that surely will ensue....
Hekate
Dec 2018
#12
Sexual violence is pretty serious HBS. Getting to the bottom of it is not shit stirring.
Blue_true
Dec 2018
#32
They want to say it's campaigns in general, but HRC would not have put up with this shit. n/t
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#38
Details, details!! You should know better than to question double standards when applied to Bernie.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#115
Huh? Sorry, I don't get your point... who's saying what about Hillary and Kamala?
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#147
Yes, that's my point. What's yours... that by holding Bernie to the same standards
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#152
That is a single individual. As I said, bad apples exist in every barrel. Who did Bernie fire?
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#79
Not in the dozens of campaigns in which I worked - local, District, and State-wide.
George II
Dec 2018
#202
Anytime people come forward asserting claims of sexual harassment or abuse
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#154
Some of them were INSIDE Bernie's campaign, which is what this letter was all about.
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#39
The Bros are on film at the Convention, Catch2.2. Are those Russian disruptors?
Hekate
Jan 2019
#275
Did you watch the coverage of the convention? Try again. It's the first google hit.
George II
Jan 2019
#305
Yup, Russian bots are still at it... was hopin' maybe we'd get beyond that nonsense by now.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#107
He was docked several weeks pay, forced to undergo training, and then fired after several months.
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#40
Why do you leave this post unedited now that you know it to be factually incorrect?
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2018
#164
Why do you leave your posts comparing the disciplining of one person connected to Hillary
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#166
Because you brought up the other campaign and said that would never ever be tolerated.
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2018
#170
Hillary docked his pay and put him through retraining. After that, he didn't reoffend
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#175
I guess we will have to see if Bernie only docs pay and remains close friends with the perpetrators.
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2018
#193
You should probably review the thread to see who brought the other campaign in to the discussion
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2018
#54
The article in the OP quoted someone saying that what happened in Bernie's campaign
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#57
You need to improve your reading comprehension. She fired him after several months.
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#80
+1, the Chuck Todd level of false equivalency is gob smacking on this thread.
uponit7771
Dec 2018
#104
His own supporters are alleging "sexual violence and harassment" within a "predatory culture"
LongtimeAZDem
Dec 2018
#64
Talk like that serves NO good purpose. It's divisive and it weakens our party.
NurseJackie
Dec 2018
#138
Don't forget that a reporter's life was threatened after she wrote an article critical of Sanders
RandySF
Dec 2018
#93
Ignoring the morons replying to those 2 tweets, interesting to see the letter and response in-full.
DRoseDARs
Dec 2018
#111
Politico includes the full text of both letters. In fact the NYDN article links to it.
ucrdem
Dec 2018
#122
I remember a TV interview where a reporter asked Sanders about the Las Vegas convention.
ucrdem
Dec 2018
#131
Good lord. This is the reason we need to abolish caucuses in the primary
MaryMagdaline
Jan 2019
#286
Wait?! What??... and miss a golden opportunity to take a swipe at Bernie?! Heaven forbid?!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#155
IDK... what's your deadline on that? And when Bernie does, will you commend him?
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#162
Well obviously Bernie will have to comply with all DNC rules... why wouldn't he??
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#174
The rules are the rules and must be complied with... your preaching to the choir.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#184
Yes, riiiight, cause I said we should throw Bernie a parade.. good one!!.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#178
Yes, I thought you did overreact by characterizing a simple acknowledgment with "throwing a parade"
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#185
No...your argument was that he would deserve to be "commended" for doing what's normal and expected.
NurseJackie
Dec 2018
#191
So true... but when someone like Bernie can do nothing right in some people's eyes...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#239
Well, you have a point there... which is what I think Bernie tries to do.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#247
Seems like some people here have already tried and convicted the Sanders campaign...
ProgLibDem
Dec 2018
#181
Yeah, that would be the FAIR thing to do... which is why some would never extend that same courtesy
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2018
#188
His campaign ended two years ago. Isn't two years long enough to wait for the facts to be presented?
George II
Dec 2018
#197
The only fact we know is that two dozen people are alleging instances of sexual violence,
lapucelle
Dec 2018
#224
Exactly. Yet people here have already tried and convicted the Sanders' campaign...
ProgLibDem
Dec 2018
#225
In a generally anonymous forum, how exactly can anybody know that someone is telling the truth?
ProgLibDem
Dec 2018
#235
It is heartening to know that you believe that 24 people have put BS on notice
lapucelle
Dec 2018
#240
It's great that people here can form bonds based on posts - nothing wrong with that.
ProgLibDem
Jan 2019
#273
Amazing to see Sanders supporters dismiss this as "just another swipe at Bernie"
BannonsLiver
Dec 2018
#172
I wonder if this came up because Arturo Carmona was at the recent Sanders Institute shindig.
seaglass
Dec 2018
#213
There is absolutely no room for this type of aberrant behavior in my party.
DemocratSinceBirth
Jan 2019
#268