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talkpoliticsWhile I don't necessarily agree with lumping all Sanders supporters into a nasty pot and framing them as sexist, mysogynist, even racist bullies who do not tolerate anyone else's position and opinion, there *must* be something wrong with the way many among them have been treating pluralism:
'I've been silent': Harvard's Clinton backers face life on a pro-Bernie campus
Seems like that not supporting not just "isn't cool" around liberal university campuses, it comes with a full package of extras. Being labeled a fascist is just one among many bonuses. I can imagine lots of folks in that situation might prefer to stay in the closet - until something snaps and they decide they've had enough, and figure the best way to handle this is to "come out".
Or this could just be part of a Hillary tactic of using the media to instill doubts in Sanders' credibility, for all I know. Admittedly, the cynical me instantly suspected a hit-piece on Bernie. Or is it?
One comment under the article particularly sticks out after the first reading (yeah, I'm masochistic like that, I do occasionally skim through those). Makes some valid points, IMO:
"Christ on a Bike, why the fuck is stuff like this constantly framed in terms of victimhood in this day and age - in this instance, victimhood of the silently suffering variety, until one is (sniff) unable to bear it any longer and is finally compelled to finally speak?
I spent my early life in Thatcher's and Major's Britain, which was God-fucking-awful, and I was in America to vividly recall the sounds of despair that resonated around the graduate student dorm rooms late one November evening in 2004, when it was apparent that Kerry had lost. Life is punctuated by such things; chances are, even in western liberal democracies, you'll spend large periods of your life having to not only listen to politicians others noisily support but you cannot abide, but also being governed by those bastards too. The one crumb of comfort is, however upsetting this may be, chances are the situation is far worse when the politician you don't like is (eternally) in power and you live in a country such as, say, Zimbabwe.
Oh, and one word of advice to the people described in this article. If you see something you don't like in the political arena of a country where you have 1st Amendment of rights, bear in mind there's a reason why Mr. Madison wrote the thing in the first place. Don't suffer in virtuous silence; fucking say something - loudly."
'I've been silent': Harvard's Clinton backers face life on a pro-Bernie campus
Seems like that not supporting not just "isn't cool" around liberal university campuses, it comes with a full package of extras. Being labeled a fascist is just one among many bonuses. I can imagine lots of folks in that situation might prefer to stay in the closet - until something snaps and they decide they've had enough, and figure the best way to handle this is to "come out".
Or this could just be part of a Hillary tactic of using the media to instill doubts in Sanders' credibility, for all I know. Admittedly, the cynical me instantly suspected a hit-piece on Bernie. Or is it?
One comment under the article particularly sticks out after the first reading (yeah, I'm masochistic like that, I do occasionally skim through those). Makes some valid points, IMO:
"Christ on a Bike, why the fuck is stuff like this constantly framed in terms of victimhood in this day and age - in this instance, victimhood of the silently suffering variety, until one is (sniff) unable to bear it any longer and is finally compelled to finally speak?
I spent my early life in Thatcher's and Major's Britain, which was God-fucking-awful, and I was in America to vividly recall the sounds of despair that resonated around the graduate student dorm rooms late one November evening in 2004, when it was apparent that Kerry had lost. Life is punctuated by such things; chances are, even in western liberal democracies, you'll spend large periods of your life having to not only listen to politicians others noisily support but you cannot abide, but also being governed by those bastards too. The one crumb of comfort is, however upsetting this may be, chances are the situation is far worse when the politician you don't like is (eternally) in power and you live in a country such as, say, Zimbabwe.
Oh, and one word of advice to the people described in this article. If you see something you don't like in the political arena of a country where you have 1st Amendment of rights, bear in mind there's a reason why Mr. Madison wrote the thing in the first place. Don't suffer in virtuous silence; fucking say something - loudly."
