Can we please not do this "bernie bro is a racist sexist term" argument? It was incredibly idiotic the first time it was trotted out and it gets dumber each time it gets repeated.
Not any dumber than using the term in the first place. I'm not sure how else anyone expects Sanders' supporters to respond. It deserves to be ridiculed as an atempt to short-circuit discussion by appealing to a crude, sexist stereotype.
You can take umbrage at the stereotype all you want but portraying it as "racist" or "sexist" is so idiotic it strikes me as an equally bad faith attempt to "short-circuit" discussion by invoking oppression.
Most stereotypes are crude. Most candidates have stereotypes applied to their bases and, of course, because a stereotype by definition condenses a group of people into a single, unidimensional image of a single person, a lot of detail about each candidate's base gets washed out.
So perhaps Bernie supporters can try to address the stereotype without retreating to a position of being oppressed? Especially because the person in question who always levies this attack is, himself, not a woman or a minority. I would call it intellectually lazy if it didn't require such mental gymnastics. At the very least it's embarrassing.
