I think that Hillary Clinton’s comments about Bernie Sanders were unhelpful, stupid, and show a profound lack of capacity for personal examination.
I find the whole Rachida Tlaib booing incident counter-productive, though at least she has the self-awareness to apologize, and the apology is (on its face, at least) sincere.
But it seems that the PUMA crowd (JFGI) will never get over anything, and the “Hillary Hystericals” make the (Largely mythical) “Bernie Bros” look like the epitome of class and restraint:
Purplechrain is right.
While this is CERTAINLY not the worst thing to appear on Twitter (Gamergate, Rabid Puppies, etc.), nor the most self-contradictory thing to appear in the news lately (Republican impeachment arguments), it is a tryly deplorable statement.
The original tweet is still up, with over 1000 comments:
And NO ONE CALLS HER OUT on the misogyny and racism of the post, though there is a colloquy over policy and the nature of identity politics.
I’m not sure that anything can be done about this, but it pisses me off.
If you are comfortably upper middle class or in the 1%, (I am) you need to realize that it’s not about you.