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In reply to the discussion: Sen. Bernie Sanders On How Democrats Lost White Voters [View all]BainsBane
(57,751 posts)and the link. The quotes were verbatim. This is the only part that isn't a direct quote:
African Americans and the working-class people of this country shouldn't be in separate categories.
Eight words, including prepositions. Yet the entire interview is there so you don't even need to pay attention to the quotes. Look at the interview. That is the part that matters, and you are doing everything you can to pretend it doesn't.
You consider it manufactured outrage because you don't believe it matters. Yet despite that you manage to get upset. You go ahead and try to suppress the news and scream up and down about anyone who dares to repost it. It matters not one bit because it's being reported on AA websites and in the black press. That is what matters.
You ought to be upset. Candidates can't say that shit and try to get elected in the Democratic Party. Those comments are very common among Republicans, but not Democrats. Then of course, Sanders isn't a Democrat, is he? So in that sense it's not surprising that he doesn't speak like one.