Is This Bernie Sanders Campaign Ad Problematic?

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

14 minutes ago, just4fun said:

Bernie was against gay marriage when he was mayor of Vermont. He only wanted a civil union so not to fight the power. He also was not going to do anything for gay work rights. He is NOT a lifetime supporter of gay rights. Did he change is mind before Hilary? Yes, but he still changed his mind. 

Nobody expected him to be some magical pioneer. I just wish his supporters would stop bringing this issue up  

[Goosey 3,017]

55 minutes ago, pie-kun said:

He was literally a civil rights attorney after college and worked to sue businesses that were discriminating against racial minorities. 

Sure he was. "And I'm Edward G. Robinson."

 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

1 minute ago, Goosey said:

Sure he was. "And I'm Edward G. Robinson."

 

... he did though lol

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

4 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

Nobody expected him to be some magical pioneer. I just wish his supporters would keep bringing this issue up  

Exactly. It bothers me when people use the words "lifetime supporter." 

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

5 minutes ago, Goosey said:

Sure he was. "And I'm Edward G. Robinson."

 

From April to October 1992, Obama directed Illinois's Project Vote, a voter registration campaign with ten staffers and seven hundred volunteer registrars; it achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.

He joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 13-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004. In 1994, he was listed as one of the lawyers in Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 94 C 4094 (N.D. Ill.). This class action lawsuit was filed in 1994 with Selma Buycks-Roberson as lead plaintiff and alleged that Citibank Federal Savings Bank had engaged in practices forbidden under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act. The case was settled out of court.  Final Judgment was issued on May 13, 1998 with Citibank Federal Savings Bank agreeing to pay attorney fees. His law license became inactive in 2007

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

39 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Go back and read I've said they both are and there's nothing wrong with it as this is a campaign. 

UNLESS it's so blatantly obvious the candidate really doesn't care about a certain issue and is just looking for political gain. 

Which is not the case. 

Right, Hilary does not care at all about the LGBT community. She spends her days beating up gays and doing everything she can to make sure the LGBT community is denied rights. What is up with your mob mentality misplaced hatred?

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

7 minutes ago, just4fun said:

Right, Hilary does not care at all about the LGBT community. She spends her days beating up gays and doing everything she can to make sure the LGBT community is denied rights. What is up with your mob mentality misplaced hatred?

What are you even saying? WHEN did I ever even imply this? 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

18 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

What are you even saying? WHEN did I ever even imply this? 

Probably misdirected from other Bernie supporter statements.  

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

8 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

Probably misdirected from other Bernie supporter statements.  

Probably lol. This person seems to have just created a statement I never made in their head. 

[Himeros26 1,688]

1 hour ago, LebaneseDude said:

Please don't reduce LGBT rights to marriage equality It's insulting, especially to those from countries who couldn't care less about marriage equality when they're being arrested on the streets for who they are. The same countries that Clinton has denounced and engaged in active diplomacy in response such as the sanctions against Uganda when their anti-gay law was established.

Also Sanders was against it too, so don't try to whitewash history. The only reason he voted against many referendums was because he wanted the matter left to the states (due to his socialist leanings) as opposed to empathy towards the cause.

Also the civil rights movement isn't what's being discussed here. African Americans face issues different than civil rights which have already been granted. Nowadays it's mostly remnants of intolerance and racism which demand a different set of goals, ones that Sanders has consistently failed to address. Bringing up his actions for civil rights movement, as if he had any impact in comparison really, is misdirection.

Case in point: Pandering.

Hillary using a rainbow slogan and a hashtag is so irrelevant in comparison, especially when she really did advocate for gay and women rights throughout all of her career, even today, with the exception of the occasional minor outlier like her understandably passive stance on marriage equality as a person from an older generation.

THAT LAST PARAGRAPH YOU ARE SO DELUSIONAL LORDT BABY HUNNT OMGF

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

1 minute ago, Morphine Prince said:

Probably lol. This person seems to have just created a statement I never made in their head. 

You all look the same to us 

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

4 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

You all look the same to us 

Poor Hillbots. They've been #berned.

It's ok. It will all be over in July. 

But don't get too happy. Trump is coming..... NO ONE is safe. 

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

32 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

What are you even saying? WHEN did I ever even imply this? 

Do you really need me to quote you and bold it. Ok.

1 hour ago, Morphine Prince said:

Go back and read I've said they both are and there's nothing wrong with it as this is a campaign. 

UNLESS it's so blatantly obvious the candidate really doesn't care about a certain issue and is just looking for political gain. 

Which is not the case. 

You were implying Hilary doesn't care about the LGBT community here. It's implied because we were speaking of Bernie and Hilary only and you were replying to my comment that says they were both pandering, Bernie to the black community and Hilary to the gay community. 

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

2 minutes ago, just4fun said:

Do you really need me to quote you and bold it. Ok.

You were implying Hilary doesn't care about the LGBT community here. It's implied because we were speaking of Bernie and Hilary only and you were replying to my comment that says they were both pandering, Bernie to the black community and Hilary to the gay community. 

You interpreted my post wrong. 

UNLESS it's so blatantly obvious the candidate really doesn't care about a certain issue and is just looking for political gain. 

This right here was not directed at any candidate. What I was saying was that this is when I think it's wrong to pander. 

I then followed saying: Which is not the case, and I meant it for both. I think they both at least care about all the issues they are presenting. 

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

4 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

You interpreted my post wrong. 

UNLESS it's so blatantly obvious the candidate really doesn't care about a certain issue and is just looking for political gain. 

This right here was not directed at any candidate. What I was saying was that this is when I think it's wrong to pander. 

I then followed saying: Which is not the case, and I meant it for both. I think they both at least care about all the issues they are presenting. 

I know it wasn't directed expressed. It was implied and you didn't say 'it wasn't the case for both.' I don't think you understand the meaning of the word implied. A word that you were the one that used, but thank you for saying that they both care about the issues they are pandering to.  

im·plied

imˈplīd/

adjective

1. suggested but not directly expressed; implicit.