CNN to host Bernie Sanders at 2020 town hall

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54. We agree to disagree then

IMO, he was meaning that ones platform is the most important thing, as a voter, one should be concentrating on when making up one's mind as to who you want to represent you. Sure, it may have been a bit of human frailty as well. He sees all the publicity going to all the new fresh multicultural candidates, and wanted to remind people that he is still here, and that policy is what people should look to first. Attention envy is the worst he could be accused of.

Even if you just look at it pragmatically, logically, as a politician. Why would he purposely propose the marginalization of WoC, as someone who identifies more with Democrats? Even to the point of being mistaken for that? Now if you are saying he, as someone from another generation, cannot parse his words in contemporary PC language, and so gets in trouble for that, I would agree. But to say he meant to be as bigoted as you claim? It would be highly ignorant, politically stupid, for any more left politician to do that. And he may be many things, but he's not that stupid, even if he WAS such a bigot.

When Sanders says that, he is also assuming he is talking to an intelligent enough audience to know what he means, and that he is NOT demeaning all WoC. He is guilty of making statements that are susceptible to being misinterpreted, he's not that socially sophisticated. But sorry, based on his long history of fighting for civil rights etc....including marching in MLK marches and leading anti-racist groups in college....it just does not make logical sense even to conclude that he means that the way you think he does.