#neverbernie

To be blunt, white straight dudes love Bernie because instead of having to acknowledge their privilege they can just blame it all on capitalism and call it a day. This is why Bernie often deflects specific questions about the unique struggles of women and minorities to talk about wealth inequality as a whole.

If you read the NYT Editorial board interview he even states that racism is a product of capitalism (which is false). Of course capitalism can facilitate racism, but people don’t stop being racist just because they get better economic prospects, just like black folks don’t stop being at the receiving end of racism when they have “made it” and moved up the class structure. 

What Bernie is doing is telling his white (male and female, but mostly male) supporters that they are oppressed due to poverty and in turn, they use this to silence minority groups. A woman or PoC may state what some of their experiences with sexism/racism are only to be told by a Bernie bro that these experiences are due to capitalism and they must vote for Bernie to fix it. We’ve also all seen the extortionist messages from the far-left, particularly folks like “chapo trap house” that post shit like “well, we won’t show up to vote for anyone except Bernie, so if you care about black people and women’s issues, you better vote for Bernie,” which also undercuts their message while demonstrating their own privilege within the white supremacist spaces of the far-left.