Sanders told a local newspaper that the sale of a privately held mining company by its founders harkened back to “the days of slavery, when black people were sold to different owners without their consent,” and compared the service economy to chattel slavery.
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“Basically, today, Vermont workers remain slaves in many, many ways,” Sanders said in another interview in 1977, in which he compared the burgeoning service industry in the nearly all-white state to the enslavement of black Americans at the nation’s founding." But...he didn't
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He was talking about workers having no say/having their jobs sold away by their economic masters--business owners who pay off politicians. You can argue whether he should have used the term slaves, but the CONTEXT (which the media has been obsessed about in defending
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is him talking about worker exploitation and servitude. Clearly,
@thedailybeast "obtained" this from Biden's campaign, who is sitting on a bunch of comments Bernie made in 1970s ready to deploy them all over the next few days. I'm personally excited for the communist lover onesShow this thread
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The fact that you even have to describe this to people is sad.
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But, Jordan, look at the photo. He looks so....evil.
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Thanks for explaining
@JordanChariton ....I think any sensible person will realise that...thanks for clarifying it and spreading the factsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This is the best they can do. They have nothing. cc
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It’s also more than a little bit bullshit to put the actual content behind a paywall where the headline is misleading.
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Meanwhile in America, Walmart is the preferred store where slave labor is pretty rampant. Merica!!!!!
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