2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Remember when Bernie said social justice must wait for economic justice? [View all]thesquanderer
(13,154 posts)He said that the color of the president's skin is not important. i.e. - it is more important to vote for the person who will better represent your interests than it is to vote for the person who has the same color skin that you do.
Disagree with that if you want, but nowhere in the quote does he say anything close to social justice being unimportant. Nor does he say that it must wait for economic justice. Really, the worst thing you can say is that he didn't talk about it at all.
Even then, not every angle of every issue is mentioned in every interview, by any politician. Not mentioning something doesn't mean someone has a bad position on it. In how many 2014-or-earlier interviews did Hillary speak about social justice? Are we supposed to draw some conclusion from that?
If you want to know where BS stands, or where he stood in 2014 (when he did that interview) or before, look at his record. One place to start would be
http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Bernie_Sanders_Civil_Rights.htm