Bernie Sanders Once Compared Vermont Workers to Black ‘Slaves’
[quote]As the leading member of a self-described “radical political party” in the 1970s, Sanders repeatedly compared Vermont workers to enslaved black people, according to archival interviews obtained by The Daily Beast. In one 1976 conversation, Sanders told a local newspaper that the sale of a privately held mining company by its founders harkened back to “the days of slavery, when black people were sold to different owners without their consent,” and compared the service economy to chattel slavery.
[quote]“Basically, today, Vermont workers remain slaves in many, many ways,” Sanders said in another interview in 1977, in which he compared the burgeoning service industry in the nearly all-white state to the enslavement of African-Americans at the nation’s founding. “The problem comes when we end up with an entire state of people trained to wait on other people.”
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 8 | January 23, 2020 12:08 PM
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Don’t all socialists do this?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 23, 2020 11:32 AM
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Anti-Bernie are really graping the straws
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 23, 2020 11:32 AM
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He wasn't wrong, so what's the point here?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 23, 2020 11:33 AM
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What is so wrong with this analogy? I am Biden, Buttegeig but this seems frantic and desperate.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 23, 2020 11:34 AM
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R5 - Because Vermont workers were not taken from their homes on another continent, sold to an employer, no rights whatsoever, and treated like property. He could have said coal miners from the 19th century to make it a better comparison. If he wants to be elected he needs to find a ways to communicate his message in a more non-confrontational way.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 23, 2020 11:54 AM
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If you're going to exclude candidates based on sulking about phrasing, R6, you're going to get what you deserve in office.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 23, 2020 12:03 PM
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Slave isn't a word that describes only the American experience. I know that may be hard to handle.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 23, 2020 12:08 PM
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