Isabella Rogge's Blog: The Redhead Writer, page 298
August 27, 2015
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He wrote this, in 1972.
1972.
1972? I am a bit confused if this is being emphasized to imply that this stuff is particularly new or radical to have written in 1972. Why emphasize it? I don’t get it. William Godwin was writing this stuff in 1792 if you feel like doing some number swapping. Usually people fixated on working within oppressive systems are late to the party and just collecting the asspats of actual revolutionaries.
William Godwin was a writer, not a politician running for office in the USA. Yes, this is revolutionary because even today the left has been constantly flip flopping on these stances. Obama has been quoted being against gay marriage in 2008, and Hilary has been against it since 2004 , every politician goes back and forth on their stances, they go by what is popular to get votes, not to actually change anything at all. Bernie Sanders is revolutionary because as a politician, he has very strong, very consistent views on touchy subjects that Americans are not comfortable with, and most politicians would rather dance around the important topics because they want votes, not change. He is clearly pro-choice, against the war on drugs, pro lgbt, and has always been against big business when big business is funding all of his coworkers. He gets right to point, where as most politicians dance around topics and throw out catch phrases because they are scared of being quoted saying the wrong thing. Bernie Sanders has marched on washington and watched Dr. Martin Luther King give his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. Bernie Sanders took breast cancer patients across the border to Canada to get cheaper drugs while in office. He stood for 8.5 hours on the senate floor to filibuster the bush tax cuts for the 1%. Bernie Sanders has never run a negative ad campaign against anyone. For American politics, yes, this is revolutionary because those ideals were not popular back then, and through out the decades he has not faltered on these stances. He is not collecting asspats of actual revolutionaries, he is one.
1) Let’s talk civil rights:
“A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A woman on her knees, a woman ties up, a woman abused.A woman enjoys intercourse with her man – as she fantasizes about being raped by 3 men simultaneously.” - Bernie Sanders, 1972.
You can read more here. He goes on to blame women for relationship problems due to trust issues that follow rape.
Sanders was a RIGID defender of gender roles. Moreover, he has not once mentioned institutional discrimination in his decades of politics. (You can contrast this with Clinton, who has openly fought it her entire career.)
Moreover: LGBTQ* activists hated him at the time. He tried to set the priorities of the movement, which is something that allies should never do. But in his never ending quest to impose gender roles, he just had to stick his face in and try to make the LGBTQ* community fit right into the established system of oppression. Realize that LGBTQ* activism was born out of what would become third wave feminism. Marriage at the time was seen as a system of oppression and LGBTQ* activists all the way into the 90′s opposed it. The goal for the LGBTQ* community was to change the underlying structure of society, not to be assimilated into it. His words are not the words of an activist. For your own reference, Clinton and Obama have long been voting for gay rights. Gay marriage has been an evolving issue in the United States and within the gay rights movement itself.
Considering that intersectional feminism is crucial to the movement, have you considered his views on race? Again, try to find a single quote regarding institutional racism. He refuses to talk about it. In fact, he even white washed Baltimore, saying that we need to work on criminal justice for the poor without so much as thinkin
2) Lots of politicians disagreed with Vietnam. There’s nothing new there.
3) The Democratic Party had tried to get Universal Healthcare for decades. Look up some of JFK’s speeches on it. Nothing new, nothing revolutionary, and nothing outside of the goals of the established Democratic Party.
4) Sander’s stance on drugs is abhorrent. While we should treat addiction, we also need to punish crime, and the illegal drug trade has an absolute negative impact on the community. All that needs to be done to make the war on drugs less violent is to expand the use of the NSA domestically.
5) The Democrats have long fought for an improved tax structure, and unlike this maniac, have actually accomplished positive change.
6) Speaking of, despite decades as a politician, Sanders doesn’t have a SINGLE FUCKING ACCOMPLISHMENT TOWARDS ANY OF HIS GOALS under his belt.
Stop supporting dipfuckery. He has no place in modern politics.
BULLSHIT
1) The piece your are talking about was written by him as a college student, poorly, and was about how damaging gender roles are, because you know what? That shit isn’t far from the truth. Look at porn and what men are consuming and tell me that men don’t fantasize about raping and abusing women. As a sex worker I heard this fantasy consistently. And because of this, and what women take in, and how women are brought up, a lot of women do have rape fantasies, that’s just the fucking truth.
You can check his voting record here He has been pro abortion and has always wanted women, regardless or age or income to keep control of their fucking bodies
You’re literally making shit up, and have no linked sources, luckily I have a few,
But Sanders has also been a steadfast and reliable supporter of LGBT equality, supporting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act when it passed the Senate in 2013 and even calling on President Obama to evolve already and support marriage equality in 2011. He’s a cosponsor of the federal LGBT-inclusive Student Non-Discrimination Act and has consistently voted against bills seeking to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, while cosponsoring a bill that would repeal the remaining portions of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. Sanders has a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign’s latest Congressional Equality Index.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/election/2015/04/30/bernie-sanders-most-lgbt-friendly-candidate
In 1996, then-Representative Sanders voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred recognition of gay marriage at the federal level (DOMA was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2013). Sanders’ and his home state of Vermont were the first to legalize same-sex unions in 2000, at first recognizing them as civil unions. Gay marriage has been legal in Vermont since 2009, and as The New York Times reported, Vermont was the first state to pass legislation in support of same-sex marriage, rather than in reaction to a court ruling.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the longest-serving Independent in the history of Congress, is also running for the nomination. And unlike Clinton, his record on LGBT rights is historically excellent.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-novak/on-lgbt-rights-bernie-lea_b_7662682.html
And this shit you said right here?
Considering that intersectional feminism is crucial to the movement, have you considered his views on race? Again, try to find a single quote regarding institutional racism. He refuses to talk about it.
thats when I knew you don’t know JACK SHIT about Bernie Sanders. You need some quotes. I’ll fucking find you, some fucking quotes
“I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.
“But I think the issues that we are dealing with, combating 51 percent African-American youth unemployment, talking about the need that public colleges and universities should be tuition free, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, creating millions of jobs by rebuilding our infrastructure. These are issues that should apply to every American.”
http://www.ijreview.com/2015/07/357166-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-minority-voters-election/
The civil rights movement also became a home for him. He became leaders of an NAACP ally called the Congress of Racial Equality at a time when most civil rights activists were black. He was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools in Chicago. (No big deal, says Sanders: “You can go outside and get arrested, too!” he jokes. “It’s not that hard if you put your mind to it.”) He once walked around Chicago putting up fliers protesting police brutality. After half an hour, he realized a police car was following him, taking down every paper he’d up, one by one. “Are these yours?” he remembers the officer telling him, holding up the stack of the fliers.
and more !
In his second year at college, Sanders made national news. On a frigid Tuesday afternoon in January, 1962 the 20-year-old from Brooklyn stood on the steps of University of Chicago administration building and railed in the wind against the college’s housing segregation policy. “We feel it is an intolerable situation, when Negro and white students of the university cannot live together in university owned apartments,” the young bespectacled student told the few-dozen classmates gathered there. Then he led them into the building in protest, and camped the night outside the president’s office. It was Chicago’s first civil rights sit-in.
http://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/
“A black male baby born today, if we do not change the system, stands a one-in-three chance (of) ending up in jail.”
you got your fucking quotes
3) What is revolutionary is that he advocates single payer health care system, which wasn’t that big of a deal before, but now that Americans are terrified of socialism (which we need more of) a lot of people have been brainwashed against it. Obamacare is nice, but a single payer system would be better.
4) THE WAR ON DRUGS IS ABOUT THE WAR ON BLACK BODIES AND THEREFORE SHOULD BE ABOLISHED.
https://www.aclu.org/drug-war-new-jim-crow
5) Examples of this positive change?? Because last time I checked a lot of major corporations paid no taxes in 2014
http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2014/08/12/20-big-profitable-u-s-companies-paid-0-taxes/
6) I really wish you linked, some kind of source, but I guess thats hard being that a lot of this shit is all made up,
http://mic.com/articles/117894/4-surprising-things-bernie-sanders-has-already-accomplished
https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033
All the bills has he sponsored or cosponsored
#FeelTheBern
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