Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

Well, yeah, I'm just responding more generally to the tendency of treating the thoughts and opinions of the college educated as if they're worthy of any consideration if they aren't backed up with something more substantive than 'binge drank my way through four years of a grade-Z state school'.

Catalina and Eva, present.

fuck, didn't realize OL knew me in college

Guys this primary season included a white guy who called himself Beto and we’re making fun of Amy?

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 10:11 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

also a white woman who called herself indigenous for 7 decades. we can make fun of them all

I only managed to binge drank my way through 3 years of state school, will somebody please call me and count my opinions

You've come a long way since that one time we got arrested for breaking into the food court at 3am, YMP.

I mean, look y'all: I have a college degree. Me. I don't know how much more evidence you need to devalue that particular currency.

i have a college degree, look i made a hat out of it

haha wow the wites really are intent on fucking everything up

The tumblr wites?

college, non-college, men, women, tumblr, all of em

you could make some cool eugenics arguments about wite behavior over the last 150 years, probably

you are off by several millenia

can we have a moment for the Sanders spokeswoman who made the world's worst birtherism analogy and made up heart attacks for Bloomberg

nice, white college-educated women are literally almost completely wrong, in order

You should tell them that. I'm sure they'll take it well.

yes please xpost

i accept your dare. someone, please gather all the white college-educated women, and let them know that i can't do tomorrow afternoon, as i have to appear in a gathering of all white men, and that's definitely not creepy

Hope I live to see college diplomas completely shitcanned as any kind of valid metric of intelligence

You will.

what the fuck @ that poll

It's absolutely inconceivable to me that a group of people who absolutely never encounter mansplaining or have their intelligence belittled on a regular basis would have any problem with Sanders supporters. Who could possibly imagine it?

you are off by several millenia

xp eric h

could it also be that the poll is ALL college-educated women, of all political persuasions, and that nearly every single conservative-leaning person is convinced that bernie sanders is the antichrist and must be defeated at all costs?

key words on that poll are "white" and "college", not "educated" and "women"

It's absolutely inconceivable to me that a group of people who absolutely never encounter mansplaining or have their intelligence belittled on a regular basis would have any problem with Sanders supporters. Who could possibly imagine it?

This doesn't explain why they're in unison with white college educated men or why it doesn't hold true with WOC, who I don't believe are immune to belittling or mansplaining?

i stay out of the bernie bro wars a lot, but pretty sure 90%+ normal people have no experience with having their intelligence belittled by bernie supports on twitter, because they're not on twitter

the impression that Berniebros are overly aggro is widespread, it's part of his narrative at this point.

whether anyone's encountered it directly or not is immaterial. For my part I have definitely gotten a fair amount of hostility on the Bernie thread of this very board fwiw.

The standout there is Warren is second-last, though.

imo the standout is that bloomberg is second

both equally depressing, imo

maybe the poll was really 'hey white people, what candidate do you most want to bring home to meet your mom?'

Bernie bros (not always male) are a thing on Facebook as well. I think a lot of people can relate.

I've been singed on Facebook and Twitter but I won't confuse'em for real life, where the Sanders supporters, as usual, are far less aggressive.

It's absolutely inconceivable to me that a group of people who absolutely never encounter mansplaining or have their intelligence belittled on a regular basis would have any problem with Sanders supporters. Who could possibly imagine it?

But I know plenty of women who've been bro'd.

Yes. Plenty of people in my circle have been bro'd: women, LGBTQ+ folk, POC, working poor, trans folks, the disabled ... it's just, as a trend, they're not the people with the platform to shout back against agitated 20-something white men.

would you guys be so confounded by this poll if we swapped out white, college educated women for anti-vaxxers in the heading?

Aren’t most anti-vaxxers white college-educated women?

i guess short answer is no

how bad do we think the obama bros would have been in 2008 if twitter was widespread back then and had been for a few years

The actual answer to your question is PUMAs

e.g. people who feel entitled by how much they know better than you, you being the less enlightened sad person who doesn’t understand what’s at stake

It takes one to bro one

All snark aside, Sanders and Warren being 1-2 in dead last means that this is 100 percent a snapshot of privilege in action.

It sort of makes me doubt the reliability of the poll, isn't the college educated white women demo supposed to be Warren's bread and butter?

Most anti-Warren sentiment in my circles seems to be of the “Stop telling me what to do, MOM” variety.

So do we postulate that Buttigieg is coasting on being not mom, and not dad?

he's everyone's over-achieving little brother

xpost its a poll of all college educated women, not just democrats. The college educated democrats who might appreciate warren are more than offset by conservatives who are told on a daily basis that warren and sanders are evil

oh come on how many college-educated white women Republicans are there, 200? 300?