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octoberlib

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Mon Feb 24, 2020, 07:53 PM Feb 2020

Ava Duvernay receives death threats from Bernie Sanders supporters [View all]

Last edited Mon Feb 24, 2020, 09:08 PM - Edit history (1)

Ava Duvernay is one of the most celebrated Black creatives of our time, but over the weekend the award-winning director found herself in the crosshairs of overzealous Bernie Sanders supporters who took issue with her for critiquing their candidate.

Friday evening, the Vermont Senator tweeted out, “I’ve got news for the Republican establishment. I’ve got news for the Democratic establishment. They can’t stop us.”

"I’m undecided. But I know this isn’t what I want,” she wrote in response to Sanders’ tweet Saturday.

“Ava what is it that you want then? A little surprised with your tweet. Since I have always seen you as a progressive woman,” wrote one woman to which the filmmaker responded, “So you’re saying if I disagree with his statement that I’m not a progressive woman? Is that what you’ve just written here?”


“People on here getting emotional about one man without keeping their eye on the real ball,” she elaborated, then added, “I understand exactly what he’s saying here and I don’t agree with it. He can’t win that way. And he surely cannot govern that way. How’s he gonna get anything passed? How’s he gonna move anything forward?” However, once the discussion became ugly and violent, DuVernay tapped out, posting, “Bernie supporters terrorizing my mentions while I’m off enjoying my Saturday.”

https://thegrio.com/2020/02/24/ava-duvernay-receives-death-threats-from-bernie-sanders-supporters/




If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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This should help him with the black votes. Skya Rhen Feb 2020 #1
Disgusting relayerbob Feb 2020 #2
Plenty of them have blue check marks octoberlib Feb 2020 #6
Prove they're actual Bernie supporters. OliverQ Feb 2020 #3
It's pretty much what I experience online, even from blm Feb 2020 #8
Same here. People I know, and have met in person, ir were even close to relayerbob Feb 2020 #10
It is like the whole has gone nuts PatSeg Feb 2020 #31
If it can't be boiled down to a tweet, then it's meaningless relayerbob Feb 2020 #32
Sadly, I have to agree with you PatSeg Feb 2020 #34
Future shock has caught up to us relayerbob Feb 2020 #35
Want it quantified too? Some people here insist on that. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #9
Prove they're not. Alliepoo Feb 2020 #12
Can You Prove This? McKim Feb 2020 #20
Stop making excuses for bad behavior n/t FreeState Feb 2020 #22
The better challenge is for Sanders to prove that they're not his supporters Orrex Feb 2020 #23
You mean that if .... reACTIONary Feb 2020 #24
lol.. I just explained that whole thing to him.. Cha Feb 2020 #37
Ava said she didn't like BS' tweet.. .. and she was attacked Cha Feb 2020 #36
+100 reACTIONary Feb 2020 #38
K&R betsuni Feb 2020 #4
They're a minority of his supporters, but sadly a large minority. Beakybird Feb 2020 #5
Agreed that they are a minority relayerbob Feb 2020 #11
pretty sure there is no evidence of either of these statements ProfessorPlum Feb 2020 #43
... SidDithers Feb 2020 #7
What a surprise - Sanders supporters attacking someone mcar Feb 2020 #13
++ agree. nt iluvtennis Feb 2020 #21
The article documented one vague death threat that appeared to allude to the French revolution aikoaiko Feb 2020 #14
?? Death threats Tweedy Feb 2020 #29
The tweet beneath that Codeine Feb 2020 #33
Jus damn uponit7771 Feb 2020 #15
Looks like insufficient adoration is a crime in Bernieworld dalton99a Feb 2020 #16
Yes, unfortunately Tweedy Feb 2020 #30
Ava was not passing Cha Feb 2020 #40
I had a Biden sticker on my car a month ago SCantiGOP Feb 2020 #17
For me this OP just Cha Feb 2020 #41
Gosh, I wish there were more threads bashing Bernie. warmfeet Feb 2020 #18
Gosh...just imagine that... capechacon Feb 2020 #19
shocking I know.. Cha Feb 2020 #27
Of course. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #25
Charming! peggysue2 Feb 2020 #26
That is so fucked up. nt SunSeeker Feb 2020 #28
A mild disagreeing tweet and Cha Feb 2020 #39
the hard-left has violent ideation which is evident on social media radius777 Feb 2020 #42
Who is surprised by this? Gothmog Feb 2020 #44
Any Berners care to step in and defend this? Blue_Tires Feb 2020 #45
I mean, seriously... Blue_Tires Feb 2020 #46
KICK Cha Feb 2020 #47
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