Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumHere comes another wave of "Racist Bernie Bros" BS from Team Windsock.
Dolores Huerta is claiming "Bernie Bros" were chanting "ENGLISH ONLY!!!" at the a caucus site. I don't believe a word of it.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)and it's possible that there were people talking over each other and a lot of noise and confusion. That can be a difficult backdrop when you're trying to keep accurate counts.
I do not believe it either.
I believe that someone probably told everyone to stop talking--maybe it was even said in a rude way. I do not believe that Sanders supporters were being racist or demanding that no Spanish translation happen. Not for one minute.
villager
(26,001 posts)If it did happen, it's terrible. But I'd like to see some corroboration....
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)People are people, and both candidates are going to attract some scummy followers. But given that Sanders WON the Nevada Hispanic vote, I think that that didn't make much difference in terms of the votes cast.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Though I won't be surprised to see them dishonestly equated with every person who supports Sanders.
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)Delores is even trending, that's how fast it's spreading.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)I don't hear it, but I wasn't there.
Posted on this thread. Be cool.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511288982
Autumn
(44,756 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35343-nobody-shouted-qenglish-onlyq-at-dolores-huerta
'She is mistaken, however, when she claims that supporters of Bernie Sanders shouted English only. One person in that room uttered the words English only, and it was the precinct chair, who said: We are going to go with English only, Im sorry.
The room did get loud, but there was no objection to there being an interpreter; the objection was to having a Clinton surrogate on the stage. In the video above, you can hear No and Neutral being shouted. Nobody was chanting English only.
In an interview in The Washington Post, Huerta said, The Bernie organizers were shouting, No, no, no. Then a Bernie person stood up and said, No, we need to have it, I can also do translation or whatever. The person who ran the caucus said, Well, we wont have a translator. The sad thing about this is that some of the organizers were shouting, English only! English only! The Bernie organizers.
Most of her statement is accurate, but the most serious allegation she made is not true. For the record, I shot the video and was centrally located in the room.