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MrWendel

(1,881 posts)
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:49 PM Feb 2016

Attacking Dolores Huerta or John Lewis does not help Bernie Sanders, period.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/21/1488924/-Attacking-Dolores-Huerta-or-John-Lewis-does-not-help-Bernie-Sanders-period

By dlcox1958

I want to call to everyone’s attention a very balanced examination of what happened at the caucus yesterday by Angus Johnson at studentactivism.net. Angus is a historian who loves to sift through and get perspectives on things as they happened. Read this and you will come away with an appreciation for how Dolores Huerta came to her view of what happened in Nevada yesterday without imputing nefarious motives. I will excerpt a couple of key passages here:

Some people — a lot of people, if my Twitter mentions from last night are anything to go by — see an intentional smear, a lie spread maliciously by the Clinton camp. But I’m not so sure. Let’s look at where the story started, with a Facebook post from Clinton supporter Delia Garcia...

If you parse this description closely, it’s actually pretty accurate. The Clinton camp did ask for a translator. Huerta did volunteer. Sanders supporters did object, and did boo — though they may have been booing the chair, or the attempt to put Huerta on stage, that’s a pretty slender distinction. The chair did reject Spanish translation, using the phrase “English only,” and the Sanders camp did seem to support his decision. The claim that Sanders people “demanded ENGLISH ONLY” isn’t confirmed by the video, but it’s possible that happened too — that someone said it wasn’t practical to have translation, so the caucus should go forward in English.


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Attacking Dolores Huerta or John Lewis does not help Bernie Sanders, period. (Original Post) MrWendel Feb 2016 OP
K&R! stonecutter357 Feb 2016 #1
This makes it hard for me to see how the arms of kindess is extended from the Sanders Thinkingabout Feb 2016 #2
K&R! DemonGoddess Feb 2016 #3
They can't see it. Starry Messenger Feb 2016 #4
They didn't even acknowledge brer cat Feb 2016 #5
K&R fleabiscuit Feb 2016 #6
It only hurts BS.. oh well.. they have no clue.. so be it. Cha Feb 2016 #7
De nada MrWendel Feb 2016 #8
Butcher what? Cha Feb 2016 #9
Much.. MrWendel Feb 2016 #10
This sort of thing has happened to many times, to many people, to be an accident. And claims... Tarheel_Dem Feb 2016 #11
Attacking Huerta is a disaster. Treant Feb 2016 #12
Attacking a majority of Democratic voters is apparently DURHAM D Feb 2016 #13

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. This makes it hard for me to see how the arms of kindess is extended from the Sanders
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:21 PM
Feb 2016

campaign to POC. The disrespect shown to Dolores Huerta, an advocate for those less fortunate, John Lewis has been smeared, we should honor these heroes, does not help in convincing POC Sanders cares.

DemonGoddess

(4,640 posts)
3. K&R!
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 11:00 PM
Feb 2016

I've actually been avoiding dKos, because it's become even more toxic than GD P lately. Good diary from there!

brer cat

(24,576 posts)
5. They didn't even acknowledge
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 11:21 PM
Feb 2016

how confusing it was with so many people yelling. Nope, went straight to "it was a lie", "Hillary paid her", it was "THE HATE."

They are hurting their candidate, and that is fine with me. But it is not fine to personally attack civil rights leaders. Dolores Huerta and John Lewis literally gave their blood, sweat, and tears to make this a better country. The keyboard warriors trying to drag them down are only outing themselves as petulant narcissist who can't deal with anything or anyone not within their little cult.

Thanks for posting this MrWendel.

Tarheel_Dem

(31,235 posts)
11. This sort of thing has happened to many times, to many people, to be an accident. And claims...
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 02:46 AM
Feb 2016

that these are just isolated incidents, or that everybody must be lying about BS' supporters, speaks to an unwillingness to recognize that there are some serious problems with some of his surrogates/supporters.

Treant

(1,968 posts)
12. Attacking Huerta is a disaster.
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 03:18 AM
Feb 2016

If Clinton passes 60% in Texas, you can simply close the book on the Sanders campaign right then and there. There's no coming back from that.

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