2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Tells Berniebros To Knock It Off — ‘We Don’t Want That Crap’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had a terse message for any of his supporters who engage in online harassment: We dont want that crap. He told CNN on Sunday that the so-called Berniebro phenomenon is disgusting and that anybody who is supporting me that is doing the sexist things we dont want them.
The Berniebro phenomenon, where a mob of online Sanders supporters attack politicians and writers who express views critical of the Vermont senator or supportive of his Democratic rival Secretary Hilary Clinton, launched numerous thinkpieces from journalists unfortunate enough to encounter them online. At their worst, Berniebros have accused Clinton supporters of voting based on who had the vagina and have invented novel sexist terms such as clitrash.
Meanwhile, the Sanders campaign has engaged in an escalating series of tactics trying to convince the Berniebros to cut it out. Sanders rapid response director asked the senators supporters to chill on Twitter:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/07/3746988/bernie-sanders-tells-berniebros-to-knock-it-off-we-dont-want-that-crap/
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)thereismore
(13,326 posts)are able to appreciate anything good that comes out of Bernie's mouth. The rest of Clinton's supporters do not have your grace.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)to sa .y Knock it off, I'm sure Hillary would do the same thing
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)vorgan24
(50 posts)The BernieBros were nothing but a myth?