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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#113751: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:44:29 PM

You're really trying to me that upper middle class white kids aren't racist?

Have you ever seen one?

They're not out burning crosses but they are still extremely racist. Gentrification and all that.

edited 29th Feb '16 3:45:01 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#113752: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:49:39 PM

Yes, Bernie probably has some racist people working for him. Hillary probably does too.

But unlike the Republican side of the fence, I feel confident that neither of them are racists. I believe that should a group with a proven history of discrimination and violence endorse either, they would respond with a strong repudiation, not dodge the question with, "Oh, I'll have to look into that."note 

Saw something on Facebook that Trump said he'd be open to relocating African Americans, but I can't open it. Anyone want to confirm that one?

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Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#113753: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:49:54 PM

I'd be interested to see the source and numbers for that, too, Owl. I haven't seen many recent studies that break down racism by generation and race in that way.

edited 29th Feb '16 3:50:09 PM by darksidevoid

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#113754: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:50:22 PM

[up]that is a pretty broad statement about a wide group of people. Especially when a partially ethnic one.[nja]

edited 29th Feb '16 3:50:53 PM by Protagonist506

Leviticus 19:34
SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#113755: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:52:36 PM

If we judge racism by level of support for interracial marriage, then white millennials (88) narrowly edge out black millennials (85) and Hispanic millennials (81). (Pew Research Center)

(Other age groups are included by race as well)

https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/669991541126119424/photo/1

edited 29th Feb '16 3:53:09 PM by SolipsistOwl

Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#113756: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:53:59 PM

Oh god, can we stop arguing over who's less racist?!

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#113757: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:55:28 PM

[up]Yeah discussions like that never lead to anywhere good.

SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#113758: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:56:48 PM

Then let's not generalize an entire group of a candidate's supporters by labeling them "Bernie Bros."

It goes both ways in politics.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#113759: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:57:51 PM

But we're talking about a very specific subset of Bernie supporters.

Oh really when?
Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#113760: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:59:28 PM

CBS CEO on Trump Campaign: It ‘May Not be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS’.

What a guy.

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#113761: Feb 29th 2016 at 3:59:47 PM

Why waste our time complaining about the inevitable 'bad apples' of every candidate? The Internet provides a lot of loud microphones—doesn't mean they're all who's talking.

Hell, how many celebrities and historical figures have been killed by a lone wolf, 'Only I understand you' fan?

edited 29th Feb '16 4:00:46 PM by SolipsistOwl

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#113762: Feb 29th 2016 at 4:06:09 PM

For what it's worth, I do find the notion of Sanders or the majority of his followers being bigots utterly laughable. I'm not a fan of Sanders whatsoever, but I don't think he's racist.

Leviticus 19:34
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#113763: Feb 29th 2016 at 4:08:28 PM

It's not a matter of Sanders himself being racist. As far as I know, Sanders has been very open about the various racial problems in America, so I'm pretty sure the observations are more about some of the ignorance of his voterbase and not his political positions.

edited 29th Feb '16 4:09:53 PM by wehrmacht

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#113764: Feb 29th 2016 at 4:13:25 PM

It's just a baseless smear. The notion that Sanders voters are somehow uniquely bigoted doesn't stand up to any examination. It's nothing, but a desperate bark, used purposefully to absolve Clinton voters of the same behavior.

As exhibited by many(though not all) comments right here, for instance. Since we're apparently allowed to use Reddit as evidence for a voterbase, You Tube should suffice too.

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#113765: Feb 29th 2016 at 4:14:24 PM

If we judge racism by level of support for interracial marriage

I really wouldn't consider this strong enough evidence to measure racism on its own. Interesting numbers, however, even though I haven't been able to find the actual Pew study.

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#113767: Feb 29th 2016 at 4:18:29 PM

Good

Oh really when?
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#113768: Feb 29th 2016 at 4:54:35 PM

"North Korea doesn't have the ability to harm the US. Neither does China actually.

Russia is the only non-NATO affiliated nation on earth with the capability of carrying out MAD against the United States, nobody else has a nuclear arsenal that can get through are missile defenses or reach our borders. "

North Korea, China, Russia, the point is, I don't trust Trump with the nukes.

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#113769: Feb 29th 2016 at 5:01:18 PM

My politically apathetic cousin (though I'm thankfully sllloooowly getting him out of it) is getting harassed by his otherwise fine friends to voting for Bernie tomorrow, which has put him off the candidate (which he was already iffy about). His friends don't take the hint, and they have quarrelled (not fought though since my cousin is a bodybuilder...) so often now that he refuses to talk to them til the election is over in november.

Berniebros are a thing and I gotta deal with it in my real life. I don't blame Sanders at all for it, and applaud him for denouncing them, but that isn't going to stop them.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#113770: Feb 29th 2016 at 5:02:30 PM

Trump probably won't nuke anybody. If Stalin can be trusted not to nuke anybody, Trump can, too.

Leviticus 19:34
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#113771: Feb 29th 2016 at 5:04:59 PM

Stalin was intelligent and didn't have the biggest and most easily bruised ego possibly in American political history.

Oh really when?
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#113772: Feb 29th 2016 at 5:07:19 PM

Eh, Stalin didn't live that long into the Cold War.

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A procrastination in of itself
#113773: Feb 29th 2016 at 5:08:33 PM

Just to go back to the phone banking example, if it was phone canvassing why did the guy receiving the call assume that the guy making the call knew his race?

Bernie Bros being a thing online doesn't translate into them being a thing in meat space, hell I wouldn't be surprised if many of the online trolls were folks to younge to vote trying to make up for their inability to vote by pressuring others.

On nukes, I'd worry less about Trump nuking someone and more the possibility that he'd decide to sell the US's nukes to the highest bidder and pocket the money made.

edited 29th Feb '16 5:09:54 PM by Silasw

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#113774: Feb 29th 2016 at 5:11:26 PM

It seemed like the guy assumed the teller assumed he was black based on his voice.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#113775: Feb 29th 2016 at 5:14:18 PM

[up][up] The welfare bit came after the recipient had already said that they were voting for Hilary.

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