Really exhausted with white boy progressives who want to explain to me how I'm just so wrong and who've got it into their heads that because they identify as progressive that it immunizes them from accusations of sexism & racism, because apparently '16 never happened.
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But it did happen.
I was there.
A consistent profile of the self-identified progressive white man/boy/child/bro emerged about mid-Summer '15:
Arrogant, demanding, angry, misinformed, disrespectful, unrelenting, overbearing.
But these were not the only in-common traits.
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I was there.
A consistent profile of the self-identified progressive white man/boy/child/bro emerged about mid-Summer '15:
Arrogant, demanding, angry, misinformed, disrespectful, unrelenting, overbearing.
But these were not the only in-common traits.
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Another emerging trait of this vocal group of white male progressives, who were supporting Bernard Sanders in large numbers, was an increasing and unusual level of disdain for Clinton. Having watched the Clinton / Obama contest in 2008 up close I was rocked by malignancy.
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The amount of misinformation & exaggeration being pushed about Clinton by this group was staggering. Few of them had any desire to actually discuss Clinton, they only mocked & bullied those that did. Few hesitated to use words like bitch, cunt, and whore either.
Alarm bells.
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Alarm bells.
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Now we know that their narrative and hatred we're partly directed by Russian bots who were deployed in 2014 and perhaps prior to infect social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Daily Kos, Reddit, and University message boards across the country.
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They would share negative stories, many completely fabricated, about Clinton and the Democratic Party and try to steer social media debate in that direction as well.
By the time 2016 began the most political of this group had ingested two years of anti-Clinton propaganda.
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By the time 2016 began the most political of this group had ingested two years of anti-Clinton propaganda.
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