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[–]Moxie 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (15 children)

Like clockwork.

It was two days ago Bernie started to look like the frontrunner.

Now the right starts to try smear him right on cue.

This just shows he's winning.

[–]Chipit 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (14 children)

By "tries to smear him" surely you mean "reveal the truth about the people who support him".

It's telling that the Left's outrage is when the truth gets out about what they really want. If they were honest like Labour in the UK, nobody would vote for them.

[–]Moxie 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

"reveal the truth about the people who support him".

So at best it's a guilt-by-association argument, according to you?

[–]Chipit 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Apply the principle in reverse. What if Republican activists were revealed to be advocating for putting people in camps?

You know and I know you'd be crowing that this means all Republicans are evil. Hell, you do it anyway. And yet whenever a Democrat does it, it's an isolated incident and means nothing.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

a lot of repub activists do that, well they support the putting immigrants in cages in camps thing, doesn't tend to matter cuz people realize it is just exaggerated rhetoric. this guy is talking about the education system and how it should support diversity and liberal views, a lot of people agree, and he exaggerates by comparing it to stalin and gulags

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So calling for genocide is exaggerated rhetoric? I thought it was never a joke. What happened to that idea?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

saying it is calling for genocide is exaggerated rhetoric, unless he literally called for genocide

is calling for immigrants to be kicked out calling for genocide, no, but others exaggerate and say it is too

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

honest answer, Chipit, is "yes, guilt by association argument"

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The honest answer is "it's OK when my side does it but a hate crime when your side does it."

And guilt by association doesn't apply when the far left has a history of doing just that. Putting people in camps.

[–]Moxie 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Guilt-by-association is a core tactic of cancel-culture/culture-wars bullshit.

Remember the David Duke-Donald Trump stuff? Or this?

It's easy to find some bad behavior from someone somewhere who's somewhat associated with the person you want to smear. Then culture-war faggots claim that the person they want to smear is cancelled. ("Could be THE END For Bernie Sanders")

It's such a stupid little game.

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yes! That's why it's so delicious that the weapon that the far left created is now being used against the far left. It's poetic justice. You don't see too much of that these days.

It's not that they weren't warned, either. We all shouted at the top of our lungs that the Frankenstein they were making would turn on them. But they were so focused on attacking the enemy that they refused to listen.

[–]Moxie 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You don't see too much of that these days.

I don't? Pretty sure I do. It dominates most of the internet in fact.

[–]Gracehoper 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Isn't it strange how the Left has been using this argument forever, and now that it suddenly gets turned around, it's a logical fallacy.

Kind of like how blackface was super racist and offensive - up until Trudeau got caught doing it. Then it wasn't offensive and never was in the first place.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes! That's why it's so delicious that the weapon that the far left created is now being used against the far left. It's poetic justice. You don't see too much of that these days.

It's not that they weren't warned, either. We all shouted at the top of our lungs that the Frankenstein they were making would turn on them. But they were so focused on attacking the enemy that they refused to listen.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Does he work in Bernie's campaign?

If he actively works in Bernie's campaign, and Bernie does nothing about it then it sends a message that's the kind of people he wants working for him.

I don't expect campaigns to do a through screening of everyone working with them, but if something like this happens the candidate has to take a stance.