I don't get this whole PoC discussion...

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84. The fact Clinton supporters don't insult people of color

as being less informed and reacting based on "name recognition alone" is definitely a point in her favor. I can only imagine that if I were a person of color and saw the disrespect with which many Sanders treat them on social media, it would put me off.

And what exactly is this "actual message" that is supposed to matter to them? The message that if only they would become smarter, they would realize that they should do what white "progressives" tell them and quit worrying about trivial matters like racism? That they shouldn't have to worry about any actual policies to address racial discrimination because Bernie has them covered under prison reform (because after all, we know all black people are criminals )

They should rally around the people who told black activists they weren't good enough to question someone as superior as Sanders? Who in Seattle shouted that black protesters should be tased for refusing to stay in their place? People who took to social media to systematically attack, insult, and berate African Americans for having the audacity to criticize Sanders, for daring to question white "progressives" who treat them with disrespect? Maybe they aren't persuaded by the argument they should abandon concerns for their own rights, or perhaps they don't buy into the idea that the truly oppressed people in America are middle to upper-middle class white men who feel census data is a nefarious plot that assaults them? Perhaps they are turned off by people who disrespect and insult the first African American president and who insist Obama's only legacy is Bernie?

Or maybe, just maybe, they aren't terribly persuaded by bumper sticker political "messages" and actually care about what a politician is going to to improve the lives of them and their families? Perhaps, unlike the superior white voter who despises Hillary Clinton, they've actually bothered to examine her policy statements rather than believing fabricated internet memes designed to obfuscate and avoid any discussion of actual policy, presumably as a way to make up for the fact they have a candidate who doesn't actually bother to develop policy positions but instead repeats the same talking points every day, without ever flushing out details of how solutions will be achieved.

Maybe they are actually MORE informed than the people like yourself whom you consider so much smarter?

I don't know what it's like to be a person of color, but I do know what it is like to be a woman in this election and to be told I'm stupid, uninformed, and voting with my vagina because I dare to support a person who on every objective level is exponentially more qualified than her opponent. I recognize that the entire discourse that trivializes Clinton to mere body parts is part of an effort to maintain white male supremacy, the white part of it confirmed by the contempt for our current president and for voters of color who have the nerve to believe their own interests and lives actually matter, that they have the right to vote in those interests rather than the self entitled white bourgeois voter who treats the majority of Americans with contempt, who assume themselves more intelligent and informed, even as they prove the opposite at ever opportunity.

I suggest some of you check out the Sanders reddit page. I have noticed that there are some Sanders supporters there who call people out on these sort of posts and talk about how insulting they are. Sadly, we don't see that sort of forthrightness of DU, but it is good to know it does exist among his support base.