When did blaming a a politician's supporters become a thing?

[Formerly Black Trash]

Is Facebook not on the internet?

Bruh how did you ignore everything else I put in that statement?

Lol come on this HL we're supposed to be better than this

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

You act like people don’t communicate across mediums. Any of those people that had a bad interaction can go to their friends/fellow supporters in real life and tell them about something ugly said to them by Bernie fans online.

So ppl are just using anecdotal experiences and the media is blowing it up?

 

[FAH1223]

It's always been a thing.

Hillary called Trump fans "deplorables"

Romney said that he would never get the "47%" that were just takers

Obama talked about the folk who just "cling to guns, cling to religion"


It always backfires. It's a dumb move and politicians shouldn't do it whether they think it's true or not unless they really like losing.

Obama boys was the precursor to Bernie Bros

 

[Pressure]

Bruh how did you ignore everything else I put in that statement?

Lol come on this HL we're supposed to be better than this

This is a low quality thread though.



The majority of people don't talk politics online nor in person. As a result the vocal minority will have an over representation of the masses.

shyt ain't complicated.

Not every Trump supporter is a red hat, but they still define being a Trump voter.

This is no different.

 

[MoneyTron]

So ppl are just using anecdotal experiences and the media is blowing it up?

.

As with Trump’s online contingent in 2016, I think this is a byproduct of running a populist “us vs them” style campaign. Aggressive online interactions, brigading, personal attacks, doxxing, etc, etc aren’t tolerated well on this side.

You may say “hey that doesn’t happen often, shyt is overblown” but if it happens enough times and effects enough people, it becomes reputation.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

You’d be surprised how many Warren fans have sworn off Bernie due to his fans.

You may not like it, but it’s definitely a reputation Bernie fans have.

Ultimately this needs to be quantified... and at a state level. I’d venture to say the impact is minimal once the numbers are out out there.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

This is a low quality thread though.



The majority of people don't talk politics online nor in person. As a result the vocal minority will have an over representation of the masses.

shyt ain't complicated.

Not every Trump supporter is a red hat, but they still define being a Trump voter.

This is no different.

Nah, you're basically admitting I'm right

 

[Pressure]

Nah, you're basically admitting I'm right

Do you think this phenomenon is only limited to the internet?

 

[Loose]

Obama boys was the precursor to Bernie Bros

No way obama boys was no where near this level. Bernie bros is doxxing, and using all types of right winged slander techniques to get employees to quit.

2 campaigns have complained about them, we going to sit here and act like it's not a serious problem?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

So ppl are just using anecdotal experiences and the media is blowing it up?

I have a facebook friend who is a super-devoted Warren supporter who volunteers and canvasses for Warren's campaign. She's regularly saying the most hateful things about Bernie's supporters - claiming they're aggressive, belligerent, say mean things, and she repeatedly says they're no different from Trump supporters. Every single time she has a negative interaction with a Bernie supporter or even hears secondhand about someone else's negative interaction with a Bernie supporter, she blasts it across her page. The whole time, she seems oblivious to the facts that....

1. Most of the interactions with Bernie supporters she describes are ones that she initiates
2. Virtually all the negative things she says Bernie supporters do are things she does herself

But once you have a narrative to run with, and a self-serving motive for pushing that narrative, then objectivity goes out the window and the narrative takes over.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

No way obama boys was no where near this level. Bernie bros is doxxing, and using all types of right winged slander techniques to get employees to quit.

2 campaigns have complained about them, we going to sit here and act like it's not a serious problem?

I'm not saying it's not happening

But where do nikkas find these ppl?

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Do you think this phenomenon is only limited to the internet?

I think most ppl dont care about this shyt

And most dont encounter it

 

[wire28]

Around the time when those supporters started posting people’s addresses and showing up to their homes in the dead of night

 

[Professor Emeritus]

262 million people are on Twitter the fukk are you talking about? social media is arguably the best way right now to canvass the fukk do you mean? And yes hiring negative attack dogs against candidates in your own party/ideology should be looked frown upon

That "262 million" number is specifically the # of Twitter users outside the USA so it's literally completely irrelevant.

22% of Americans are on Twitter and less than half of them use it regularly. So you're talking about just 10% of the population and it skews young and well-off.

Also, just 10% of Twitter users (so 2% of Americans) are responsible for 80% of the tweets. So it's not remotely representative of what the average person is like.

 

[Loose]

Around the time when those supporters started posting people’s addresses and showing up to their homes in the dead of night

Doxing and threatening employees/supporters is ok because @Rhakim know's one warren canvasser who acted like garbage