Bernie Sanders Once Compared Vermont Workers to Black ‘Slaves’
Tone-deaf Bernie strikes again. For anyone people of color who want to Bernie because he is"woke"--think again. This man refuses to live in the real world.
[quote] 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.”
[quote] Sanders said. “If a worker at Vermont Marble has no say about who owns the company he works for and that major changes can take place without his knowledge and consent, how far have we really advanced from the days of slavery, when black people were sold to different owners without their consent?”
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 23, 2020 5:46 PM
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*Edit: For any people of color who want to vote for Bernie because he is"woke"--think again.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 23, 2020 4:01 PM
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:Yawn:
Bernie getting arrested for protesting on behalf of black college students in the 1960s.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 23, 2020 4:03 PM
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Bernie marching in support of MLK and the Civil Rights movement....
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 23, 2020 4:04 PM
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Bernie leads another Civil Rights protest in 1962....
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 23, 2020 4:08 PM
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Pete buttigieg is still the racist one.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 23, 2020 4:10 PM
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He's talking about wage slavery, a widely accepted concept. I'm a Warren supporter and even I can't get upset about this.
Yes, nice try, OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 23, 2020 4:12 PM
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Something tells me slaves had it a little harder than white Vermont workers. If you don't get why this comparison mindbogglingly stupid and shallow, you have other issues.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 23, 2020 4:15 PM
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He very specifically says this is like actual slavery where Africans were bought and sold, R6. This isn't just a "wage slavery" discussion.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 23, 2020 4:32 PM
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R8, the only people dumb enough to think white people suffering from "wage slavery" is comparable to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade are Bernie and Trump supporters.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 23, 2020 4:35 PM
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It’s not bugging me because of his track record in civil rights. Suddenly they are mentioning this NOW? I call shenanigans.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 23, 2020 4:40 PM
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I don't care for the Sandernista, but 43 years later, his views may just be different.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 23, 2020 4:42 PM
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"People working in a factory are equivalent to Jews in concentration camps." - Bernie Sanders
Is it offensive now?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 23, 2020 4:43 PM
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If someone believes that Vermont "wage slavery" is comparable to black slavery in their mid 30's when they were--according to their biggest fans--a "civil rights champion", there is something very wrong with them.
And Bernie doesn't have much of a record on civil rights--he didn't vote until his 40s and wasn't involved with the civil rights legislation.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 23, 2020 4:46 PM
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I'm sure the Bros will come up with some bullshit spin.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 23, 2020 5:03 PM
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R15, they already have--see the first few responses on this thread. If you go to the Daily Beast on facebook, there are tons of those types of comments.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 23, 2020 5:05 PM
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I can’t believe people are still touting Bernie’s commitment to civil rights and then busting out those photos from the 60s as proof. At this point, all those pics tell me is that Bernie hasn’t done shit for racial minorities in the past 50 years.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 23, 2020 5:10 PM
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Who's paying Scott Bixby to write all of these attacks on Bernie Sanders this week? Yesterday was his story about how the Bernie Bros are toxic and today is this flimsy thing about wage slavery.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 23, 2020 5:16 PM
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0/10, Boris. This is not offensive.
You really don’t quite grasp the nuances of American culture, do you?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 23, 2020 5:19 PM
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Does anyone really think the soon to be octogenarian thee B's (Bloomberg, Bernie, Biden) will be the democratic nominee
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 23, 2020 5:24 PM
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anyone who can't literally walk into their workplace tomorrow and tell their boss to eat shit and die is in a form of slavery.
slavery has existed nearly all of human recorded history, and has a variety of forms.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 23, 2020 5:35 PM
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I thought the Bros were toxic before yesterday R19.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 23, 2020 5:44 PM
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[quote] Does anyone really think the soon to be octogenarian thee B's (Bloomberg, Bernie, Biden) will be the democratic nominee
No, hon, nobody thinks all three of them will be the nominee.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 23, 2020 5:46 PM
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