manipulated, twisted bros

Can we take a mo­ment to put the stu­pid ‘Bernie Bro’ thing to rest as it is com­plete­ly made up by the media? 

It start­ed as a satir­i­cal ar­ti­cle in The At­lantic de­signed to make fun of the doe-eyed earnest­ness of young male sup­port­ers of the pres­i­den­tial cam­paign of U.S. Sen­a­tor Bernie Sanders.
 

 

The term was picked up and the mean­ing twist­ed into a ten­den­cy of misog­y­ny among Bernie sup­port­ers by a Mash­able ar­ti­cle where one of the ‘Bernie Bros’ quot­ed was a WOMAN. 

This com­plete­ly made-up nar­ra­tive has been latched on to by the Hillary cam­paign lead­ing Bernie Sanders to scold a group of peo­ple who DON’T EVEN EXIST.

It’s just like when CNN had the scrolling head­line “Bernie Sanders strug­gles with black vot­ers in South Car­oli­na” be­cause BLM knew that they need­ed to reach White Pro­gres­sives with their mes­sage and that Sanders and Sanders sup­port­ers would hear them. So fuck­ing stupid.

All a clas­sic ex­am­ple of me­dia ma­nip­u­la­tion and the peo­ple prop­a­gat­ing the idea and de­fend­ing the idea are be­ing duped. 

So let’s all just cut it out already.
 

—na­tal­ie michelle

Flom­mist Na­tal­ie Michelle does­n’t have a bio. She just rants. Copy­right © 2016 Na­tal­ie Michelle. Top im­age: Some ma­nip­u­lat­ed, twist­ed bros.

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