Dolores Huerta slams Sanders; Bern Victims Question Her Record as an Activist

[richeiieu]

If you’ve been following the Democratic primary, you may have noticed that Bernie Sanders has positioned himself as a champion of the immigrant community. From the letter he sent to Barack Obama last week, to the work he, his campaign, and surrogates have done attacking other candidates’ positions, you would think that he has been a lifelong

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[tabaqui]

Wow. How the Bernie supporters here are going *nuts* over the article title and whaa whaaa'ing about an unflattering or unfavorable article about Mr. Sanders.....

But not one comment actually mentions the subject of the article or addresses it's actual points. Wow.

[blackjedii]

There has already been a rebuttal posted to this very comm

But eh. I am over the Bernie vs Hillary stanning and would prefer to talk tactics amd weaknesses of the current elextion porrocess. Of which stanning is a part of

[tabaqui]

Then why not just say so and link it? The comments here are bordering on hysterical in their outrage. It's amusing.

But yes - more importantly, in my mind (as I don't think anyone is going to change who they are voting for at this point) - is talk about other elections, such as senate and congress, and how the voting and electing process is amazingly fucked up.

[tabaqui]

So? The comments here are *so* outraged and *so* pearl-clutchy, it's ridiculous. If there's a 'fact-by-fact' rebuttal, why even bother commenting beyond linking it? Why so hand-flaily?

I just find it amusing.

[tabaqui]

Uh, yes, I'm aware of that.

When an anti-Hillary post is made, I don't see comments quite as *outraged*!! as this, the first one going so far as to wanting to *ban* a type of 'headline'? That's a bit much.

And like I said - when *i* read through the comments a while ago, they were all simply complaining about the post itself, not *one* comment on the actual subject. (Or talking about the political process.)

[dumpweeds]

Are you talking about my comment? Because I also agreed in the Hillary post that the use of Hillarybots was not necessary.

[dumpweeds]

well, I definitely saw it as a response to the people in this comm--even if you didn't mean it that way, they aren't mindreaders and people are very touchy right now.

[dumpweeds]

I'm not saying you did. I still think we should avoid using hillarybot/berniebot/etc in titles because people have kneejerk reactions and it can come off as flamebait-y. I don't know why this is a controversial opinion, I only made the comment because I noticed two in a day and this post was a deliberate attack/response to your post, and it doesn't encourage discussion. it was made to upset bernie supporters.

[moonshaz]

I saw it as a response to the people in this comm, too. And I felt personally attacked, as I do here very frequently. But when I posted elsewhere on this comm asking people to consider playing nicely and avoiding insulting references to the other side, I got a bunch more attacks. Nice.

[moonshaz]

I only saw one tweet in that post, and I didn't see the term "Hillarybots" in it. I definitely felt like it was a deliberate passive aggressive attack on Hillary supporters (present company included). I'm glad (and relieved) to hear it wasn't, but looking at the post again, I see nothing whatever in it that informs me either way of how the subject line was meant.

Also, that post was just one in a long line of things posted here by a variety of posters that have felt like deliberate attacks on Hillary supporters (to me anyway) Maybe that was an incorrect impression, too (I'd be delighted to learn that it was). The problem is, things can often come across a lot harsher than they were meant here in cyberspace--and when people react, they tend to react to the way something comes across, because we can't read the poster's mind to know what was meant. I suspect a lot of that has been happening in this comm.

[tabaqui]

When I read the comments, it had *not*. And the 'omg, it's a month old!!!' comments. So what? I hadn't read this a month ago.

Considering how pro-Bernie this comm is, i do still think it's pretty amusing how flaily the comments are in their pouty outrage.

And now I'm off to work, so i won't see or respond for a while. Just in case anyone is waiting with bated breath for me to respond to their comment.

As I know you will be. :)