Bernie Sanders - Whites don't know what it's like to be poor

[cawacko]

I don't think this came out like Bernie intended it. White people don't know what it's like to be poor? The amazing thing is his closing statement in the debate tonight talked about him growing up poor! And I have a number of black friends I grew up that weren't poor and didn't live in the ghetto. This didn't help you Bernie.

(Click on the link to see the tweets being discussed)



3 tweets that show the problem with Bernie Sanders's line on white peoples and ghettos


At CNN's Democratic Debate on Sunday, Don Lemon asked Bernie Sanders what his racial blind-spots are. But Sanders's response was perhaps a bit more revealing than he intended.

In his response, Sanders suggested that white people "don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto and to be poor" — a response that also seemed to characterize all minority Americans as impoverished.




Journalist Joy Reid quickly criticized the line on Twitter:




As Reid suggested, it's true that black Americans disproportionately suffer from poverty. But it's just not true that all minorities' experience is defined by poverty.


http://www.vox.com/2016/3/6/11171092/democratic-debate-bernie-sanders-ghetto

 

[Airstrip One]

That's what you're supposed to say in leftist circles. Bernie is just covering his bases, and Reid needs to get outside of his safe space and STFU.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Bernie is another white-hating racist.

 

[Airstrip One]

Naw, he's a race-hating whiteist, like all entitled white males. He doesn't know what it's like to be poor, but he does understand the social dynamics of a safe space.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

these words say more about him being an elitist who looks dis-favorably upon americans who aren't in his sacred ruling class.

 

[The Dude]

A politician pandering to a base
Omg

 

[anatta]

Bernie is completely wrong. Poverty is poverty- going thru days without hope, just trying to survive with nothing better on the horizon.
Poverty is color blind.

 

[canceled.2021.1]

liberals believe that being poor and black is worse than being poor and white. Even poor white people have white privilege according to lefties.

What I find surprising is that anyone finds any of this surprising. It shouldn't be. This has been the trajectory of leftism for 60 years and it has gone virtually unchecked for all of that time.

 

[The Dude]

It gets them votes

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Democrats want everyone poor and on welfare and thus dependent on govt. They turned blacks into welfare slaves and now they get 95% of the black vote every election.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Bernie is another millionaire socialist lecturing us about the poor.

 

[Celticguy]

Bernie is another millionaire socialist lecturing us about the poor.

Yup.
And his kin back in the old country lived in ghettos long before the term got coopted.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

 

[leaningright]

I have never known what it is like to be poor but I know plenty of white people who do. Poor Bernie really stepped in it with this one. I bet it comes back around to him again before the election cycle is over.

 

[zappasguitar]

Sanders comments are nothing more than the grumpy ruminations of a cantankerous old man.

It's like listening to your great grandpa.

You know, the one who always told you he had to walk TWO miles to school every day..."In my day we entertained ourselves, we didn't have all these new fangled moving pictures, in my day there was only one show, and it was called Stare At the Sun..."

 

[Darth Omar]

Bernie is completely wrong. Poverty is poverty- going thru days without hope, just trying to survive with nothing better on the horizon.
Poverty is color blind.

You'd think that would be obvious. One area where I'm pretty confident a republican president wouldn't fail me is on the racialist crap. It seems like EVERYTHING has a race-angle to the left.

 

[The Dude]

Like Ted nugent

 

[Airstrip One]

All you have to know is a guy named Martin O'Malley said "All Lives Matter," and died a slow, racist, political death. Bernie already had a run-in with the dumbfucks of Only Black Lives Matter, and doesn't want another.

 

[christiefan915]

I don't think this came out like Bernie intended it. White people don't know what it's like to be poor? The amazing thing is his closely statement in the debate tonight talked about him growing up poor! And I have a number of black friends I grew up that weren't poor and didn't live in the ghetto. This didn't help you Bernie.

(Click on the link to see the tweets being discussed)

3 tweets that show the problem with Bernie Sanders's line on white peoples and ghettos

At CNN's Democratic Debate on Sunday, Don Lemon asked Bernie Sanders what his racial blind-spots are. But Sanders's response was perhaps a bit more revealing than he intended.

In his response, Sanders suggested that white people "don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto and to be poor" — a response that also seemed to characterize all minority Americans as impoverished.

Journalist Joy Reid quickly criticized the line on Twitter:

As Reid suggested, it's true that black Americans disproportionately suffer from poverty. But it's just not true that all minorities' experience is defined by poverty.

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/6/11171092/democratic-debate-bernie-sanders-ghetto

Somebody here posted a thread calling Bernie a welfare bum until he was 40 so that suggests he had some familiarity with poverty.

http://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...are-BUM-until-age-40&highlight=bernie+sanders

 

[cawacko]

Somebody here posted a thread calling Bernie a welfare bum until he was 40 so that suggests he had some familiarity with poverty.

http://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...are-BUM-until-age-40&highlight=bernie+sanders

He said white people don't know what it's like to be poor and then he said he grew up poor. Rather contradictory.