Bernie supporters compared to Nazis! Well at least the ones that were at Washington Park

[jillan]

Here is his tweet, that he deleted. Funny how Bernie supporters did their research and took a screenshot. And it is going viral.

Tom Watson is a Hillary Surrogate who along with Peter Daou founded #Hillarymen
http://www.hillarymen.com/



More anti-semitic bull crap being thrown around.

Edited to add - what makes this especially disgusting is Bernie's father's family members were killed in the Holocaust.


Hillary - We want an apology.

[geek tragedy]

1. He apologized already.

Last edited Thu Apr 14, 2016, 01:28 AM - Edit history (1)

Now you all can go back to thinking up new ways to insult Hillary Clinton.

Edited to add: his apology was cleverly hidden right on his Twitter account:

https://mobile.twitter.com/tomwatson/status/720416705533517824

[jillan]

2. Where?

[CentralCoaster]

7. He didn't apologize. Assholes don't apologize.

Such a shitty Tweet, people like that don't apologize or admit fault.

Look at Bill Clinton, for example, just recently, with BLM.

[geek tragedy]

9. Really? Can't figure it out?

Where did he make the offending remark?

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

3. Well please let the Hillary supporters know the person who said "corporate whores" apologized too.

[JTFrog]

79. But his supporters here are still posting it and making excuses. n/t

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

80. They aren't the guy who said it...

I'm a whore and his comment didn't offend me, so I personally don't think he should apologize

In the context of this thread people offended should take the apology and move on.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

83. A woman said it.

Killer Mike was quoting that woman. You can find KM's explanation by googling "Killer Mike The View." It's on Youtube.

There are corporate whores all over TV and radio. Just tune in to any major network or NPR and chances are the first person you hear will be a corporate whore. Maybe we should sanitize the phrase by using "Oligarchic Sex Worker."

[DisgustipatedinCA]

4. Who gives a fuck if he apologized? Not accepted.

[geek tragedy]

12. Of course not.

Supporting Clinton alone is an unforgivable sin, after all.

[daleanime]

39. Calling people Nazi's for no reason....

is how you support Hillary?

[geek tragedy]

43. Did I do that? nt

[DisgustipatedinCA]

40. Not many sins are unforgiveable. But purgatory won't last as long if you'll come to your senses.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

38. Do you know who you're talking to?

I support Senator Bernie Sanders--the only candidate who isn't thoroughly corrupt.

[Biaviians]

45. my mistake!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

46. No problem. It was a Hillary surrogate who apologized, and I didn't like the insincere apology.

[Bonobo]

8. Song apologized too. Didn't stop you from making multiple threads and comments. nt

[Bonobo]

10. I just looked at his twitter and saw no apology. But it is "wiped clean"! nt

[jillan]

13. Make sure you say hello while you're there @tomwatson

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. That's idiot speak for apologizing.

Jury disclaimer: I am referencing Tom Watson and not a DUer here.

[Dragonfli]

26. I would have replied, no Tom, no one was handing out "armbands", but were you sir handing out these

To those in the crowd that looked like a "certain type of person" and demanding they sow them on their jackets?

Sometimes the the card one is handing out, is handed right back to you Mr Watson. (this is a note to the jury, my comments are directed towards and regarding specifically the author of the horrid and historically antisemitic accusation he tweeted, and not directed at or implied to be directed at anybody on this site.) I would have said the same thing to any hateful skinhead or neo-nazi that spoke similarly

[cui bono]

56. How long is it going to take for you to finally release all your pent up anger that must have built

up from holding back all those months when you pretended to be a Bernie supporter?

Or is it just that now that there's no time outs you feel like you should just let 'er rip? Maybe it's a combination... did you come out of the political closet when the time out rule was lifted?

I mean really, 12 hides??? Sheesh. Get a grip.

.

[BeanMusical]

66. "How long is it going to take for you to finally release all your pent up anger..."

Nooo! A sudden release of all that negative energy at once would make the Hiroshima nuke look like a wet firecracker in comparison!

12 hides, really? So in theory geek owes Skinner 180 days of suspension. Well, it would be fun if it worked that way but I wonder why their account is not flagged for review? Like MiniVanilla who's been flagged since December. Not that they are not currently posting with another account though.

[cui bono]

81. Because this is exactly what Skinner wants. He wants rude and abusive Hillary supporters to rule DU.

I have not seen one Hillary supporter on here actually want to discuss issues above all else. It's all about catapulting the propaganda and we can't silence Hillary supporters!!! Skinner doesn't care how rude they are or that they add nothing to policy discussion. Discussing issues would just hurt Hillary and the mudslinging smearmongering they do is click bait.

You'll notice most of the vocal Hillary supporters have more than 5 hides, many more than 10.

.

[BeanMusical]

84. Yes, you're absolutely right.

I wonder if Skinner realizes that he's destroying DU in the process? Not that this ship hasn't been sinking for a while now, many great posters have left in disgust. Or have been banned.

[cui bono]

85. He must realize it because he didn't put the donor graph on the site during the last fund drive.

I think he knew he had lost a lot of support. I never donated that much but I certainly decided not to donate based on him running a biased site in favor of people who behave like teabaggers.

.

[BeanMusical]

86. I won't cry when he reaps what he sowed.

[LiberalArkie]

70. What even made his mind come up with such a concept for a tweet?

[geek tragedy]

71. The general tone of Bernie's speakers at his rally nt

[Prism]

89. Because calling someone a corporate whore is the same as killing 6 million Jews

So amazon has personal recording devices for cheap. You can even get keychain ones for around $10.

The next time this kind of thought crosses your mind, on a whim, just throw it at the recorder. Then play it back. If it still seems like a good idea, well, very well then.

[geek tragedy]

90. I did not make the comment, and the person has since retracted and apologized nt

[Prism]

91. You realize I have eyes, yes?

I can see where you agreed that the "tone" of the Sanders campaign deserved comparison with Nazis.

Wait. Which one of us is high right now? This is getting difficult to discern.

[geek tragedy]

93. No, I said no such thing. If you honestly believe that, you need to bone up on your

vocabulary.

Go ahead and quote the language where I said that. You won't because I didn't.

[Prism]

94. You did say such a thing. Let's review the words three inches away upthread

In response to a twitter comment about Bernie's followers wearing armbands (Nazi comparison), we got this response.

"What even made his mind come up with such a concept for a tweet?"

Meaning, why on earth would someone compare Bernie supporters with Nazis.

And then you came in with:

"The general tone of Bernie's speakers at his rally"

Meaning, you thought the general tone of Bernie's speakers earned a comparison with Nazis.

Which part of basic human communication are you disputing here?

[geek tragedy]

95. the part where you don't understand the difference between explaining and justifying.

cause/effect language is not the same as normative phraseology such as "earn."

hit the books until you're able to understand the difference, until then we're done.

[Prism]

96. Oh, we're done

Because you think being cute is ace until you're called out, and then you scamper back into a cloud of "explanations"

You cosigned the sentiment that Bernie supporters deserved Nazi comparison. You can own that now. And I will make sure you do for awhile. Because I'm bored and you're trolling.

Toodles!

[nichomachus]

77. But did Hillary apologize? Hillary needs to apologize for him. nt

[geek tragedy]

78. When he introduces her at a public rally using that kind of language, absolutely

she will need to disown his remarks.

[beam me up scottie]

5. That is truly beyond the pale, I can't wait to hear the spin on what this Hillbully said.

He should be publicly shamed by his fellow supporters.

[CoffeeCat]

44. "Disqualify, Defeat...

Unify."

Unify? If rather be dipped in honey and lowered into a mound of fire ants.

You know this is how they routinely talk about Bernie supporters and refer to us. The Hillarians wrote us off months ago.

Tom Watson's remarks reflect the exact contempt and mocking that all Bernie supporters experience on DU every day.

Unify this!

[beam me up scottie]

47. They called us Nazis, brown shirts and even said we're 'night riders'.

They excel at projection.

[Skwmom]

6. That should unite the Bernie supporters...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. We were united long ago, and not because of crap like this. n/t

[Hydra]

17. +1000

This is just a reminder of what we are fighting. 8 years of someone who thinks this?

[CoffeeCat]

31. We've been United for months

and now we're just disgusted.

If you are a decent person, you'd be disgusted too.

[m-lekktor]

15. I think they are having an emotional meltdown because Bernie had such a huge rally!

Hillary supporters are completely off their fucking rockers tonight!

[beam me up scottie]

19. I agree, even more so than usual.

You can smell the desperation, just look at the ops - cray cray on display.

[m-lekktor]

22. "hard workers" is racist codespeak now?

rofl

[beam me up scottie]

25. Yep, amazing in'it?

Considering it's coming from the candidate of "hard working white Americans" it's even more outrageous.

[Hydra]

21. Team Hill leadership has only occasionally been well focused

Mostly when they are winning by large margins. This is a full scale panic, and has been since Hillary had the meltdown with the Greenpeace girl.

[m-lekktor]

28. I thought they were ahead in the polls. lol

it's kind of entertaining!

[Hydra]

32. Ya, they were pretty sure they had things sewn up 9 contests ago

But they came the calls for Bernie to drop out, and I asked the question here a few times, "What do they know that we don't? It can't be good for their team."

Still haven't seen the iceburg yet, but losing all of those states by such a wide margin is just more bad news for them.

[HooptieWagon]

16. Where is Hillary's apology?

[Baobab]

63. The Hillarys of the world NEVER apologize for anything.

Apology is not in their language.

How can God apologize when He is never wrong!?

[BeanMusical]

65. And when some of her fans try to apologize...

(after having been caught spewing antisemitic crap, for example)... they are not really good at it.

[Jefferson23]

20. Did you see this from their website?

The #HillaryMen project is unaffiliated with Hillary for America. We encourage fact based advocacy and do not condone personal attacks against Hillary's political opponents or the media

They make some exceptions, evidently.

[jillan]

23. Oh isn't that special?

And they get upset about corporate whores?

[Peregrine Took]

24. Poor fugly old dude.

More pity than censor.

[CoffeeCat]

27. Sick and evil

A Nazi reference when our candidate is Jewish and his family members were victims of the Holocaust.

What a piece of shit Tim Watson is.

[BeanMusical]

67. So true...

[amborin]

29. this is anti-Semitic hate speech! It is a crime! And scary! Notice that

this individual is acting in a blatantly anti-Semitic way, like a hateful skinhead Nazi, yet he is accusing innocent Bernie supporters of being Nazis. That's been the strategy all along: accuse the innocent opponent of your own crimes or criminality.

This is totally unacceptable. He needs to be arrested and charged.

[jillan]

34. It was disgusting anti-semitic filth.

[Behind the Aegis]

30. Anti-Semitism.

It is amazing how so many poeple whine and moan about the Jews always "palying the Holocaust card", but then there are assholes like this who seem to invoke Holocaust/Nazi imagery against Jews or Jewish interests.

Stay tuned. More to come.

[beam me up scottie]

33. Outing themselves all over the place...

And it should be called out by everyone here.

[Behind the Aegis]

37. Well, some are...others...well...

Some of us were already in the know.

[beam me up scottie]

41. Yep, they've been ... out for quite some time.

I'm waiting for the usual suspects to show up and tell us this isn't really anti-Semitic and ask us to point out the bigotry, after which they'll insist we're imagining things.

[Behind the Aegis]

42. Well, I saw in another thread, Clinton has wrapped up the Jewish vote in NY...

...I asked for someone to 'splain it all to me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

50. You=Bad

And I love you for it.

[Behind the Aegis]

61. Heeheee....I am such a pixie!

[beam me up scottie]

51. Oh did you? That should be FASCINATING...

[Behind the Aegis]

62. You know me...always starting stuff....

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. BINGO

[delrem]

58. Do you think the guy is that smart, that he made all the connections?

It reads to me like the guy was playing the standard "Sanders=Trump and their supporters are identical" smear of "the extremes", the smear of "their supporters" which is the same meme as "Berniebros" and it has worked, at least so far. It's pretty easy to connect Trump with Nazi standards so the carry-over is more obvious the dimmer a person is, and this guy went there by force of habit. Then deleted.

So far there's been nothing of that nature played against Sanders that's anywhere close to the Rev. Wright, the "birther/muslim/Kenya" stuff and so on played against Obama. That was wicked and continues to be wicked. I have no doubt that Sanders' Jewish identity will begin to be played with a lot more professionalism than this clumsy oaf played this line. I'm assuming here that Sanders continues his wins, to show his political strength.

Perhaps this will be a time for education. After all, Hillary Clinton has expressed her closeness to Israel and Netanyahu both, and Netanyahu represents a right-wing incarnation of the country, so it's hard for me to see how an anti-Semitic card could be effectively played by her. I expect the Republicans will play it, though. You betcha if they run with Trump going for his ultimate "win" (that's Trump's only concept, repeated over and over, he's in it for the joy and self-aggrandizement of being a winner).

[Behind the Aegis]

60. No idea. I don't know him from Adam.

Whether he is doing like you opine, or is something more nefarious is irrelevant to me; it is still anti-Semitic.

[delrem]

64. Yah, I know your view.

I was just explaining my own, which isn't from an insider perspective.
So I don't pretend to have any of that level credence.

IMO this jerk would have tweeted the same thing whatever Sanders' ethnicity, because I see it as an extension of the "Berniebro racist/misogynist/sexist" meme that's plagued DU discussions about politics for going on 2 years now. It's how Hillary Clinton does politics.

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Well that was shared on my timeline

I hate coded and not so coded hate speech.

[m-lekktor]

48. He's the genius who said "Who can be more of an outsider than a woman president."

In response to charges that Hillary was part of the establisment!

[workinclasszero]

49. Did Bernie apologize for the whore remark?

[Kalidurga]

54. Unfortunately the person who said it did.

My apology would have gone something like this. I am sorry about all the Democrats who aren't running for higher office who felt they had to raise money in whatever way they could and took money yet held onto their principals it's not easy when you are owned by corporate interests, that remark wasn't directed at you. It was meant to call out Hillary Clinton for being a corporate whore who takes money from big oil and delivers them whatever votes they need to rape the planet.

[litlbilly]

52. Really shows Hillaryites true colors. wholly crap are they shakin in their boots. Same

type of stuff over at the Hillary group. They are flailing wildly and missing badly

[litlbilly]

53. they are jumping up and down for posting more and more nonsense. Whatever floats their boat

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110799923

[BeanMusical]

68. Wow, that's over the top weird.

[litlbilly]

76. reminds me of Hillary with all the fake facebook and twiter followers. Just crank up the fake

numbers. I could sit here and post 1000s of times a day too. It is weird

[Hieronymus]

55. Projection

The Right has no idea what a Nazi is. They freely use the terms, Nazi, Communist, Socialist, Fascist interchangeably.

[cui bono]

57. Funny. Turns out HillaryMen are the REAL BernieBros!

What an asshat.

.

[jillan]

75. YES!

[mhatrw]

69. Godwhore's Law demanded it. nt

[Barack_America]

72. Completely insensitive. Clinton should apologize.

[BernieforPres2016]

73. Apart from the Nazi reference

Why would a political rally with 27,000 people attending and another 20,000 jammed into the streets outside the park be called a "hate rally"?

That's probably more people than Hillary and Bill will draw to every rally they do in NY during this campaign season combined.

[Tarc]

87. There were 1-12,000 tops #berniemath

[frylock]

97. #derpymath ^^

[glinda]

82. This is sad.

[AzDar]

88. K & R

[NorthCarolina]

92. Pretty insensitive considering Bernie lost loved ones in the holocaust.

Way to go Hillarians.

[treestar]

98. well wait, is he comparing them to the Nazis or the victims?

can't have it both ways.