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If only. Clinton opposed marriage equality until 2013. I'm a Bernie supporter but I'd speak out against these ignorant/lazy or dishonest smears regardless of whom I liked. The smears prove how hard it is for people to criticize him in any substantive way. slate.com/human-interest…
I think Messing is privileged & irresponsible but not necessarily a liar. Like many women, she identifies with the sexism, double standards & misogyny Clinton faced & faces. I do too. And I also always knew that Sanders' positions from foreign policy to economic issues to...
to abortion to LGBTQ rights were better than Clinton's. His policies & positions are more feminist & more progressive. Being progressive means putting the welfare of others before how much someone's journey resonates with you, which is what Messing does. But honestly, it's...
pretty unforgivable that Messing would tweet about Sanders being a Judas. She's either really out of touch or is happy to use antisemitic tropes, despite being Jewish. . If the former, she really needs someone to look over her tweets and/ or explain some...
very basic world history to her. What I do know from personal interaction is that the Patrick guy she was responding to re Bernie quote is an awful person who weaponizes identity politics, frames every straight white man who happens to, say, support Sanders over Hillary as a...
misogynist but himself engages in despicable attacks on women of color like Erika Andiola. The #pseudowork #AltWoke phenomenon is 1 of the ways people have tried to delegitimize Sanders because most people know it's a bad look to say "I oppose increasing the minimum wage...
medicare for all etc. They have to work hard bc Sanders supports abortion without any restrictions which is obviously more pro-choice, definitionally, than Hillary Clinton's position. So these poor souls (or insert something they actually have) need to resort to embarrassing...
& infantilizing arguments like "it's easy to be progressive when you're a straight white man." 1st, just as a reminder to Clinton fanatics, Hillary is a straight white woman. 2nd, there may be some truth to that & yet somehow Elizabeth Warren is able to be much more progressive..
on Wall Street than HRC. So it's not all about gender. And, amazingly enough, Barbara Lee, a Black woman is able to be more progressive on every single issue than Clinton is. Then there are the people who say even more excruciating things like economic inequality is something...
that only straight white men can care about. It's a luxury others can't afford. An adjacent stupid argument is that universal programs are "unfair" bc they help the rich & take away resources from those who need them the most. It's understandable that people believe this bc...
it's not on its face totally illogical & immoral like other things these people trot out. But anyone who understands politics & history knows this argument is either dishonest or ignorant. Universal programs are not only less stigmatizing but they're for obvious reasons more...
durable & harder to erode. Anyway... i guess i gotta write something about this instead of just tweeting.
anyway, this ins't an attack on Silverman, obviously, who was right to respond to Messing.
