"I would be so proud to win, but also to make history and elect the first Jewish American president

[Uncle Joe]

Link to tweet

[katmondoo]

1. He is not a Democrat, I will only vote for a Democrat.

[elleng]

2. He is as Democratic as any other; face the facts.

[Uncle Joe]

3. I will never vote for Bernie to be the First Minister of Scotland.

One thing is for sure, he is no true Scotsman!

[sheshe2]

5. ???

That means????? This is getting silly.

[Uncle Joe]

7. ...

No true Scotsman, or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect a universal generalization from counterexamples by changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample.[1][2] Rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"; i.e., those who perform that action are not part of our group and thus criticism of that action is not criticism of the group).[3]

(snip)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

[sheshe2]

9. So what you are saying...

He is not.

Night.

[progressoid]

36. Point, missed.

Informal fallacy

In contrast to a formal fallacy, an informal fallacy originates in a reasoning error other than a flaw in the logical form of the argument.[5] A deductive argument containing an informal fallacy may be formally valid,[6] but still remain rationally unpersuasive. Nevertheless, informal fallacies apply to both deductive and non-deductive arguments.

Though the form of the argument may be relevant, fallacies of this type are the "types of mistakes in reasoning that arise from the mishandling of the content of the propositions constituting the argument".[24]

[pangaia]

4. Do you mean, if he wins the nomination, you will not vote for him?

[myohmy2]

10. Bernie...

...caucuses with the Democrats, Bernie is running in the Democratic Primary, he wants to be the Democratic Candidate for President and should he win, he'll be a Democratic President in the White House...

...how is Bernie not a Democrat?

...

[shenmue]

28. He's an Independent.

[myohmy2]

31. an independant Democrat.

...

[secondwind]

27. Hillary included a lot of Bernie's planks on her platform.

He is pretty much a Democrat.

[shenmue]

29. Independent.

[Skidmore]

40. +1 nt

[lunasun]

6. + I am not Jewish and may not vote for him in the primaries ,but it would be a proud moment

after all the white supremacy crap this country is going through if he was elected
I will vote for whoever gets nominated regardless to beat trump
I hope there is party unity in 2020 and we lead as an example for the whole country

[emmaverybo]

8. Bernie is white. The majority of Jewish Americans are of European descent.

[jalan48]

11. LOL-where did you get your information?

His father, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders (1904–1962),[10] was born in Słopnice, Galicia, in Austria-Hungary (now part of Poland),[11][12] to a Jewish family; in 1921 Elias immigrated to the United States, where he became a paint salesman.[11][13][14] His mother, Dorothy Sanders (née Glassberg, 1912–1960), was born in New York City[15][16] to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland and Russia.[17][18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders

[emmaverybo]

16. I said the majority of Jews in American are of white European descent. You just corroborated

what I said of Bernie. I don’t think this should be seen as a criticism about him or about Jews.

I am an amateur genealogist who has done a great deal of research.

[jalan48]

18. So Jews are white?

[emmaverybo]

19. No, not all Jews are white. The majority of American Jews of European descent are white. The

Ethiopian Jews who have settled in Israel are not white. Some historians would argue that this is why their treatment socially and economically has been unequal.

[jalan48]

21. Interesting. So are there white Muslims?

[Zambero]

25. Bosnia and Herzegovina

According to its 2013 census, just over half of this eastern European country's population declare themselves to be Muslim. A number of Bosnian refugees immigrated to the U.S. in the 90's as a result of the war with neighboring Serbia.

[jalan48]

26. And they are considered white because they lived in these countries?

[BlueMississippi]

34. Also Turkey, Albania, Azerbaijan and Kosovo nt

[elleng]

20. Yes

[elleng]

32. Largely 2 groups, fyi.

Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or Sephardim, originally from Sepharad, Spain, or the Iberian peninsula, are a Jewish ethnic division. Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardi_Jews

Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or, by using the Hebrew plural suffix -im, Ashkenazim, are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium. Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews

[crazytown]

13. "The majority of Jewish Americans are of European descent"

who fled White Supremacy.

[emmaverybo]

17. They fled anti-Semitism. Terrible, but not the same thing. They were not persecuted because they

were non-whites, but because they were Jews. In fact, those Jews who immigrated from Europe to
slave-holding states pre-holocaust did own slaves, a paradox noted in research.

I am only making a distinction that for some groups is a consequential one. In its nature, of course, whether racial, ethic, or religious, mass persecution stems from similar causes and has similar effects.

[crazytown]

22. Perhaps I should have said fleeing aryan supremacy

a master race wanting to be free of 'vermin'

[emmaverybo]

23. Exactly.

[lunasun]

14. Let these guys +those attacking synagogues know that.

Now tell me about the speaker

[JudyM]

39. It would. That's a considerate thing to say.

This Jewess appreciates it.

[myohmy2]

12. Thank you...

...Uncle Joe...

...there are good people everywhere...

...I'm so proud to be an American...

[Uncle Joe]

15. Thank you myohmy.

Peace to you.

[EffieBlack]

24. I thought we weren't supposed to be doing "Identity Politics." A

Or are some “identities” ok to do while others we need to stay away from?

[betsuni]

30. +1

[BlueMississippi]

35. Of course they are !!

Those are the BS rules.

[NurseJackie]

44. Thank you. And good work...

.... the truth you speak has gotten under the skin of someone.

[BlueMississippi]

33. I support BS and would vote for him enthusiastically

to be reelected a Senator from Vermont.

[Gothmog]

37. I am Jewish and I am active is a couple of Jewish democratic groups

sanders is not an observant Jew and I really doubt that sanders will get any significant percentage of the Jewish vote.

BTW, Klobuchar is Jewish and so is Senator Harris' husband

[elleng]

38. Hadn't heard that Amy K is Jewish.

'Her father is of Slovene descent; his grandparents were immigrants from Slovenia's White Carniola region, and his father was a miner on the Iron Range;[7][8] Klobuchar's maternal grandparents were from Switzerland.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Klobuchar

I too am Jewish, not observant, but notwithstanding that, if he were Dem candidate, he sure as heck would get my vote.

You talking about primary voters? How many Jewish Dem voters in Vermont?

[lunasun]

41. Klobuchar, who is of Slovenian descent, likes to joke about how often she's asked if she's Jewish.

Klobuchar, who is of Slovenian descent, likes to joke about how often she’s asked if she’s Jewish. She is a member of the United Church of Christ

[elleng]

42. Thanks

[Amimnoch]

43. Would be proud to elect a Jewish American President. Not Bernie.

Jared Polis will make an EXCELLENT option that I could proudly vote for, canvass for, donate to for President. Would also be a first for GLBT as well.

Nancy Wyman would also make an excellent choice that I could totally get behind, and she’d also break the glass ceiling for women.

Hell having any candidate that breaks the long standing Christian mold would be nice imo.

but no. Not BS. Any of our candidates but him please.