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2020 Democratic Presidential Primary

Pete’s answer on marijuana arrests was shockingly bad.

I thought board progressives had come to a consensus that policing was a national systemic problem.

Then a mayor runs a grassroots campaign challenging the established candidates and you and a few others turn into JHMD. “DEM MAYOR!!!!!”

These questions are nuts. Pete is the only one asked to be accountable for racism because he’s the only one addressing it. He’s being punished having a diverse constituency. Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Vermont are far whiter than the national average.

“Mayor Pete, why didn’t you completely dismantle institutional racism as mayor? Senator Warren, how horrible is Pete for not ending racism?”

Based on that logic, ask Bernie why after almost 30 years representing the state, Vermont is the second whitest state in the union? Hispanic, Black, and Asian residents are each fewer than 2% of the population.

Then every other candidate got asked about how to address racism when Pete is the one with an actual plan.
 
 
Superpredators, the lot of them.

Anyway every candidate has a racial justice plan, Ph. In fact I think Pete’s was the only one that invented support from communities that never endorsed it. Here’s a good one:

Sanders: https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/

Warren’s (and Harris’s before it) attempts to address a lot of the problems Biden introduced in 1994 with the Crime Bill.
 
One of two options are true in NH. First, the polls are accurate. Or the people of NH are telling news people a load of shit. On CNN and MSNBC, a pretty large majority of voters in NH say they are "undecided" Yet, most of the polls show results of 90+/-% giving a specific preference. Both of these situations can't be true.
 
So when is it OK to refer to twitter?

roving gangs of drug addled super predator Bernie Bros are wandering the mean streets of South Bend looking for moderates to subtweet mean things about !
 
No, but it is okay to point out the cultish nature of his fan base and how similar they are to Trump fans in many instances.
 
Superpredators, the lot of them.

Anyway every candidate has a racial justice plan, Ph. In fact I think Pete’s was the only one that invented support from communities that never endorsed it. Here’s a good one:

Sanders: https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/

Warren’s (and Harris’s before it) attempts to address a lot of the problems Biden introduced in 1994 with the Crime Bill.

Townie, racism is more than criminal justice. Disappointing response.

And it’s not hard to understand why a Catholic university city would have a higher black to white arrest ratio than other cities.
 
Townie, racism is more than criminal justice. Disappointing response.

And it’s not hard to understand why a Catholic university city would have a higher black to white arrest ratio than other cities.

Liz has many plans. One could argue that a "racism" plan in and of itself is disappointing. From Sociology, we know that racism is endemic to the functioning of our institutions. Having racial justice components to criminal justice, education, taxation, etc. plans is far more impressive, imo, than a paying lip service to racism in a specific plan while having the typical race-neutral means testing bullshit in the plans where racial justice is most needed.

I kind of think it is hard to understand why a Catholic university city would have a higher black to white arrest ratio than other cities. That's why those articles that describe how Pete's administration did criminal justice in South Bend was so enlightening. Unless your default is that "black people are criminals," then there isn't actually a reason to over police black communities.

Between Buttigieg, Biden and Bloomberg, I'm not sure who actually has the more racist record when it comes to criminal justice.
 
Townie, racism is more than criminal justice. Disappointing response.

And it’s not hard to understand why a Catholic university city would have a higher black to white arrest ratio than other cities.

Wtf are you talking about? Did you even click the link?

Key Points
Address the five central types of violence waged against black, brown and indigenous Americans: physical, political, legal, economic and environmental.
 
Townie, racism is more than criminal justice. Disappointing response.

And it’s not hard to understand why a Catholic university city would have a higher black to white arrest ratio than other cities.
Bernie never had to worry about that since he was mayor of pasty white Burlington, Vermont.
 
Townie, racism is more than criminal justice. Disappointing response.

And it’s not hard to understand why a Catholic university city would have a higher black to white arrest ratio than other cities.

Ok but the question posed to Pete was clearly about justice.
 
No, but it is okay to point out the cultish nature of his fan base and how similar they are to Trump fans in many instances.

How exactly are they similar to Trump fans? Trump's fans are dedicated consumers of fascist ideology, could give less of a shit about policies that elevate working class Americans, and are absurdly racist. From what I can tell, the worst thing that Bernie Bros do are tweet insulting things (again, tweet, not actually say things, not rise to the level of actual IRL interactions, let alone IRL physical assault and murder like Trump fans, but tweet things. Oh, the humanity!) at people they disagree with... How, exactly, do you find the two comparable?
 
Pete has even managed to piss off Uncle Joe:

 
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