Xurtio

My wife read something saying they were Canadian.

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Chula Vista

I'm missing something.

It's all about dynamics when you're running for president. What did Bernie stand to gain by fighting back against two ultra-aggressive "activists" who were not going to back down, no matter what.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Exo

There are rumors going around that they were hired by opposing party members just to stir up sh*t at Bernie's rally. 15 seconds into the video you can see Bernie reach out to shake the hand of the protester. She almost does it but realizes what she's supposed to be doing and goes back to yelling at him because, you know, he's an old white man.

The whole thing was pathetic. I applaud Bernie's patience in not turning matters worse, unlike some people. There's always tomorrow. Howard Dean may have lost the nomination because he yelled really loud and it was funny. People have lost the chance to run for president for dumber reasons than that. You kick protesters off the stage and you're just ASKING for backlash. Bernie is a pro. He knew what he was doing and so did his campaign team.

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OccultHawk

Chula

What I'm saying is that they're totally playing a race card putting it out there like you have to submit to this interruption or you're a racist. All their empowerment in that situation stems from their supposed blackness. I feel like the most crippling thing you can say to them is they're not even black. They're white. They're officially a part of the official power structure. They're the oppressors. They're the privileged. They don't get a say. It's not their struggle. Didn't you see their skin tone? They're not black. Let the real black people lead the movement. Go back to the white mother who raised you and quit pretending to have any kinship with the black father you never even met.

Exo

So only true black people can lead political movements for black equality?

This is incredibly racist. You don't even know those people.

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Chula Vista

Ya. Wow. Where the **** did that come from. There's racism and then there's racist. You just staked your claim.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

OccultHawk

I don't care. If I took the trouble to go to an event of any kind, political rally, book signing, poetry reading, comedy act, concert, whatever, and someone or some group I wasn't interested in tried to hijack the event that I'm there to see they will find in me the nastiest, most offensive, most aggressive adversary in the crowd. I will shock them. I wouldn't just go with the predictable N-Bomb. I would go for the jugular in a way that would freak their ****. I don't really know who raised them. I don't care. I know there's a decent chance I'm right so that's the card I want to play. You want to go to war? I'll take you to war.

Exo

You're a child intellectually if you really act and think like that.

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OccultHawk

That's racist!!! Waaaaaaaaa!!!

Exo

He just so happened to be correct in calling what you said racist. You know, cause it was incredibly racist.

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