2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Leaders who support Hillary Slam Bernie Sanders on race issues [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Yes, most white people know that we've had white privilege and haven't had the same experience that black people do. It is a bit unfair to criticize someone who's trying to reach out to you and has done so for all of his life *CONSISTENTLY* to say he doesn't measure up as someone that can help as an elected official to make change for you.
You aren't expecting Hillary Clinton to get arrested or beat up are you? So you ARE using a double standard here in judging him harshly when you don't use the same criteria or even close to the same criteria for measuring Clinton.
Therefore, most people you try to talk to here can't understand your reasoning when you don't have a fair measure on issues where there's a clear reason that we can understand that you vote for Clinton over Sanders, other than she's a woman and he's a man, where she clearly is and he is not by that measure. Not much he can do about that though, so if that's the sole point of measurement, then arguably that is sexist too.