TYT: What Are "Bernie Bros?"

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Hillary Clinton supporters are floating the idea that Bernie Sander’s base are is largely composed of sexist men. The numbers however don’t seem to bear that out. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

Who do you think is better on women’s issues: Hillary or Bernie? Let us know in the comments below.

Read more here: https://theintercept.com/2016/01/31/the-bernie-bros-narrative-a-cheap-false-campaign-tactic-masquerading-as-journalism-and-social-activism/

“The concoction of the “Bernie Bro” narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic — and a journalistic disgrace. It’s intended to imply two equally false claims: (1) a refusal to march enthusiastically behind the Wall Street-enriched, multiple-war-advocating, despot-embracing Hillary Clinton is explainable not by ideology or political conviction, but largely if not exclusively by sexism: demonstrated by the fact that men, not women, support Sanders (his supporters are “bros”); and (2) Sanders supporters are uniquely abusive and misogynistic in their online behavior. Needless to say, a crucial tactical prong of this innuendo is that any attempt to refute it is itself proof of insensitivity to sexism if not sexism itself (as the accusatory reactions to this article will instantly illustrate).

It’s become such an all-purpose, handy pro-Clinton smear that even consummate, actual “bros” for whom the term was originally coined — straight guys who act with entitlement and aggression, such as Paul Krugman — are now reflexively (and unironically) applying it to anyone who speaks ill of Hillary Clinton, even when they know nothing else about the people they’re smearing, including their gender, age, or sexual orientation. Thus, a male policy analyst who criticized Sanders’ health care plan “is getting the Bernie Bro treatment,” sneered Krugman. Unfortunately for the New York Times Bro, that analyst, Charles Gaba, said in response that he’s “really not comfortable with [Krugman’s] referring to die-hard Bernie Sanders supporters as ‘Bernie Bros'” because it “implies that only college-age men support Sen. Sanders, which obviously isn’t the case.”

[Kip Humphrey]

1. My response to Bernie Bros? Sanders Sistas.

[Uponthegears]

2. THANK YOU

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

3. The BernieBros meme is flat out bullshit

Are there a few misogynists supporting Bernie because they don't want a woman in office? Probably. Same as when Obama ran.

But to act like it's the straw stirring the drink is disingenuous.

[libodem]

4. Good to hear this discussion

Just as ai suspected.