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1. When you don’t like someone, or even worse, if you hate them, you see everything that person does, even the genuinely good stuff, through the filter of your hate.
Yesterday, @BernieSanders gave a deeply emotional speech about the painful origins of his heart for human rights.pic.twitter.com/Hc1if4IFwA
2. It was a speech that @BernieSanders has resisted his entire life. He has kept so much of the pain of his past to himself. The speech was beautiful and honest and transparent. And hard for him. He spoke directly of the horrible impact the Holocaust had on his family.
3. For his entire life, @BernieSanders has flat out refused to explain the powerful stories behind these images.
It’s so deep. His mother and father had each just passed away. Both were young. All alone in the world, Bernie threw his entire life into the Civil Rights Movement.pic.twitter.com/vpcmDibxfJ
4. Bernie stood in front of bulldozers and chained himself to two Black women to protest the horrible conditions of Black school children. He was arrested here - just days before he would attend the March in Washington. He LOVED Dr. King. Idolized his world view.pic.twitter.com/21U5D2aRGm
5. Bernie was the head of the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee at the University of Chicago. He led the first ever sit in there. It was protesting horrible segregated housing for Black students on campus.pic.twitter.com/3eNgi4r4sB
6. But @BernieSanders revered leaders of the Civil Rights Movement of the South so much, that he never wanted anyone to think he was using his early activism for his personal/political gain.
I have dozens of more stories.
But he kept them all to himself. Even from family.
7. And as I started to ask why - why did @BernieSanders keep so much of his origin story to himself, it was there that I learned it had EVERYTHING to do with the Holocaust and with the early death of his mother and father.
Bernie’s dad escaped the Holocaust. His family didn’t.
8. @BernieSanders was born the year the Holocaust began.
The next year, while Bernie was a baby in Brooklyn, Hitler’s barbarism ravaged Bernie’s entire family -killing aunts, uncles, cousins, children, elders, and more.
But back in Brooklyn, that trauma was endured silently.
9. As Bernie and his brother Larry grew up, all around them, all over their neighborhood, were families with numbers on their arms. Many escaped alone. But it was endured by most, observed by most, in utter silence. Even at home. And Bernie carried this silence through his life.
10. When @BernieSanders gave this line, @_waleedshahid is right, it pained him.
I saw his family crying.
For those who hate Bernie, it was nothing. But for those of us who love & know him, it was a breakthrough. A revelation.https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1101955693811245056 …
11. Yesterday Bernie spoke of race, racism, & at least 11 connected issues tied to both. I know because I helped review and edit the speech. For those in attendance, and those who don’t have open animosity toward Bernie, it was great. People who loathe him, loathed the speech.
12. I’ll end with this.
@BernieSanders cares DEEPLY about race, racism, discrimination, and the systems that are maintained by white supremacy & bigotry.
I mean he cares deep into the marrow of his bones, his soul. It’s who he is.
If you insist otherwise, that’s on you.
Not preferring a particular candidate isn't the same thing as hating them. Having legitimate concerns/critiques is not "seeing them through the filter of hate."
Then I wasn’t speaking of you. But if you saw his speech yesterday, and just found it to be a bunch of hot air and bloviating, it wasn’t a function of the speech, but how you see him. All of us, myself included, see people through our own filter
Wonderful thread and this Bernie supporter from 2016 is thrilled he’s expanding his speeches to cover his personal history. It makes him even more genuine. I have never felt love for a politician before but I feel that for Bernie. Concern for others motivates him, not ambition.
You can admire and respect Bernie deeply, and still see that the next President has to be someone else. That's where I'm at.
Like who
And why?
Crickets
No one owes you an explanation for their opinion. Personally, I'm more turned off by his fans like you all than anything else. I voted for him in 2016 during the primary but won't this time. Mostly because of you folks. Happy to vote for him if he wins the nom, but not earlier.
Hmm, good point. Nobody owes anyone an explanation for their opinion. Just posed the question based on the assumption that it was for bad faith reasons. My bad, I'll try not to jump to conclusions like that. Thanks for pointing this out.
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