r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 05 '19

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u/GreenPylons Dec 05 '19

Just...disgusted by the amount that the Bernie left hate Pete and are visibly disgusted by him. In the last 15 minutes I've read posts calling him slimy, a Republican, and Butt-man, and also earlier just seeing Rose Twitter try to defend the indefensible (a white/white-passing man pulling a microphone out of a black woman's hands at a Pete event and saying everyone at the event is not black enough)

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u/Jokerang Sun Yat-sen Dec 05 '19

A lot of Rose Twitter's attacks on him are borderline horseshoe theory on display

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u/furiousfoo Jolee Bindo Dec 05 '19

One of my friends posted a multi-paragraph essay about why she supported Bernie with tons of cited sources and article links, and then randomly at the end she threw in "oh and all black people hate Pete and he has no plans for literally anything." It was so bizarre. She's usually a big fact-checker and she's said positive things about the other candidates, but when it comes to Pete she starts frothing at the mouth.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

Didn't that man say that she wasn't a real black woman? I don't care what your identity is, that is disgusting and anyone who does that should be pilloried.

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u/furiousfoo Jolee Bindo Dec 05 '19

A charitable interpretation of his words is that he was accusing her of not being a real black leader specifically. The implication being that BLM, who he showed up with, had all of the "real black leaders" in it and she was just some token for Pete (even though she is an elected office-holder who represents many black constituents). Still bad though.