So a guy working hard for the Bernie campaign had a PRIVATE account where he made jokes about the other candidates and shitposts, the media digs it up, writes a faux-outrage article on it, and the dude gets fired. I hate this shit. I feel terrible for Ben. The left needs a spine.
Bad faith smear merchants are unappeasable. You give them an inch, they'll take a foot. You validate their witch hunt by taking them seriously. They'll never give you credit or stop. They simply don't like you, this is divide and conquer. Brush them off and move on. Nobody cares.
Imagine the media digging up the personal accounts of Warren or Pete supporters & forcing the campaign to fire them? Policing jokes of staffers is clearly bad faith, it's stunning & reeks of desperation. It's also the living embodiment of the RW caricature of the snowflake left.
This standard is so authoritarian, if you've ever made edgy jokes or shitposted you should be condemned & fired. Imagine this was applied across the board? Everybody would be unemployed! The left must learn the fine art of telling smear merchants to fuck off. It's not hard.
There's zero risk in not firing him. They'll write 42 more Bernie bro articles anyway! This isn't an actual story that anybody cares about. It's whiny elitist pricks trying to take down the campaign with bad faith bullshit. Why on earth validate this & encourage more of it?
The idea that somebody working for the campaign can't say controversial stuff - why? He's not running for president, Bernie is. He's signing up for Bernie's agenda, Bernie isn't signing up for his. Are we trying to win or have a contest for who can be the most boring & lifeless?
The reason this is so important is simple: the underlying message from the campaign is we don't want you if haven't always been perfect to polite society. The problem is *nobody is*! It's an impossible standard & it makes you look out of touch, oversensitive & insufferable. Fuck.
