Sanders to Nevada next week for another round of rallies in Las Vegas & Reno

[Senator Cris]

Hopefully he can bring in more Blacksicans (or Blaxicans) to his rallies there.

http://www.ktvn.com/story/29792439/bernie-sanders-coming-to-las-vegas-reno-tuesday

Why use a term that others find offensive? Isn't that a matter of simple courtesy? Just asking.

"I'll say whatever what I want." - Tender Branson, moderator

That's correct. Please stop your political correctness, it's annoying. Besides, the word Blacksicans or Blaxicans is not offensive, it's just a word that I use to mash together the groups that Sanders is currently lacking in support - together with Native Asians.

Please stop, really. For you it's not offensive, but for other users it's offensive. Please stop. You are a moderator and you should give the example.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Hopefully he can bring in more Blacksicans (or Blaxicans) to his rallies there.

http://www.ktvn.com/story/29792439/bernie-sanders-coming-to-las-vegas-reno-tuesday

Why use a term that others find offensive? Isn't that a matter of simple courtesy? Just asking.

"I'll say whatever what I want." - Tender Branson, moderator

That's correct. Please stop your political correctness, it's annoying. Besides, the word Blacksicans or Blaxicans is not offensive, it's just a word that I use to mash together the groups that Sanders is currently lacking in support - together with Native Asians.

Per usual, "political correctness" is coded language for "why are people getting upset when I throw around racist/sexist language? I should be allowed to say whatever I want! "

[Edu]

That's correct. Please stop your political correctness, it's annoying. Besides, the word Blacksicans or Blaxicans is not offensive, it's just a word that I use to mash together the groups that Sanders is currently lacking in support - together with Native Asians.

You are correct, but I think the bigger question is if those islamofascist Native Blaxicasians are hot or not.

[Simfan34]

Seriously though: who are these Blaxicans?

[Joe Republic]

Tender, do you perhaps have a photoshopped photo of Michelle Obama's head on a bare breasted Mexican woman that you could post here for us?  It would explain where you're coming from.

[Simfan34]

Hopefully he can bring in more Blacksicans (or Blaxicans) to his rallies there.

http://www.ktvn.com/story/29792439/bernie-sanders-coming-to-las-vegas-reno-tuesday

Why use a term that others find offensive? Isn't that a matter of simple courtesy? Just asking.

"I'll say whatever what I want." - Tender Branson, moderator

That's correct. Please stop your political correctness, it's annoying. Besides, the word Blacksicans or Blaxicans is not offensive, it's just a word that I use to mash together the groups that Sanders is currently lacking in support - together with Native Asians.

The word l if anything is meant to refer to black Mexicans, not to lump Blacks and Mexicans-- plus other non-Mexican Hispanics and Asians (?)-- into some silly umbrella grouping.

[Donerail]

The term you're looking for, Tender, is "people of color", or perhaps "minority voters."

[Kingpoleon]

Speaking as a person who has been banned for saying that not everyone who saves a Confederate flag is racist, who are typically the poor working whites Democrats like to claim to be the party of, I wouldn't be surprised at this level of political correctness here.

That said, "minorities", nine letters, is shorter than "Blacksicans", eleven letters.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Replace "political correctness" with the phrase "treating people with respect", and everything makes sense.


You can do this with a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pc2respect/mgkjmkalaomdhdldmfbgpjdpmpdnhiio

[Mr. Morden]

Are we going to open a thread for each campaign event?

I'm open to the idea of a Bernie rally megathread

I could get behind that.  There really isn't any reason to have a new thread about every single Sanders campaign event.  If there's actual breaking news at one of these things, then fine, it could have its own thread.  But if it's just a normal rally, even if it has enormous attendance, I don't see a reason to start a brand new thread, rather than add to the existing one.

If Tender is the OP of the thread, then he can even edit the subject line of the thread each time there's a new one, to reflect whatever it is about the new rally that he wants to talk about now.

[NeverAgain]

"Blaxicans" just rubs me the wrong way... Don't get me wrong, I hate the extreme political correctness in our culture, but "Blaxicans" may be pushing the envelope a bit. Anyways, exciting news for Sanders, hope he touches on his immigration stance to reach out more to minority voters.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I guess this means we can refer to Austrians as Switzogarians...or Slowedeutsche.

[The Groom]

Perhaps Hillary can counter this by having more Whasians at her rally.

[Cory]

ITT: Literally everyone knows what the OP meant but are deciding to be "offended" to satisfy their self-serving slacktivism to delude themselves into think they're a "good person".

[jimrtex]

Why use a term that others find offensive? Isn't that a matter of simple courtesy? Just asking.

That's correct. Please stop your political correctness, it's annoying. Besides, the word Blacksicans or Blaxicans is not offensive, it's just a word that I use to mash together the groups that Sanders is currently lacking in support - together with Native Asians.

An anchluss as it were.

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

http://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2015/08/19/bernie-sanders-rally-draws-crowd/31967175/

Bernie had 4500 people (including me and a couple of my friends) show up in Reno.

[Mr. Morden]

Speaking of the Democratic race in Nevada, apparently the Clinton campaign has 22 full time staff in the state, whereas the other four Democratic candidates have zero:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/us/politics/hillary-clinton-turns-to-nevada-as-a-general-election-litmus-test.html