Laurence Tribe, the Constitutional law prof at Harvard, has concerns about Bernie.

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195. There is a difference between shooting the messenger and not trusting the messenger.

I'm sure that back when Uygur was open about his genocide denial, he supported his position with a set of very carefully selected facts that confirmed his bias. People shouldn't be surprised when non-acolytes do not fall prey to those tactics whether the subject is mass murder or the imaginary "slighting" of a marginal figure by an icon of a movement.

Cenk Uygur is nothing if not self-serving. We'll never hear him openly deny the Armenian genocide again just as surely as we'll never again hear ambitious politicians courting a particular demographic wonder out loud if the reason why more POC are in prison is because it is the POC who commit the crimes.

The time for the fiery independent civil rights warrior from VT to prove his mettle was in the autumn of 2018 in his home state where a Democratic candidate for governor was running against a Republican incumbent who had recently contracted with a private for-profit prison corporation to ship Vermont's incarcerated (disgracefully disproportionately POC) to serve their terms hundreds of miles from home under hellish conditions, overworked,
food-deprived, and abused by guards.

Rather than stay home and campaign hard to help get the Democrat elected, the fiery, independent civil rights warrior chose to "run around the country making the case" not for the his own marginalized constituents of color, but for himself and in the advancement of his own political ambitions. The Republican was re-elected, and Vermonters of color incarcerated in a Mississippi hellhole, ignored and forgotten by the would-be civil rights leader who represents them in the Senate, continue to languish on.

Apocrypha is apocrypha and truth is truth. Most people know the difference.