The examples provided in the article seem fine. No one actually cared about the Taylor Swift drama despite it being all over social media. Bernie fans were greatly overrepresented online, and white male Bernie fans even more so. This is a real phenomenon, and it doesn't always occur, but it's a good reminder that you shouldn't take twitter discourse too seriously. What kind of data would you want to back it up?
Bernie fans are mostly white men, they are overwhelming young too. The author said "this was shown to be false" but no source is provided.. and the author is wrong. (I suspect the author read a very misleading Vox article that makes the claim the author parroted)
So if the author had done research and used sources, they may not have made a bunch of factual errors.
Are you trolling me? Yes Bernie was popular among young white men, but they are one part of a larger coalition. Even the links you provided showed that he had plenty of support from minorities. Sure old black woman favored Biden, but they aren't the only other demographic. Characterizing his movement as mainly bernie bros is pure propaganda.
I can't tell who's trolling who now, but how stastics are worded is key here. The comment you replied to doesn't disagree with any of the claims you're making here are implying.
From the second linked article:
> although it seems Sanders’s base is hardly all white, it’s likely that no matter who wins the nomination ... a clear majority of their votes will probably come from white Democrats
This directly contradicts the original article's quote:
> there was no evidence to show that young white men made up a majority of Sanders’s supporters
Additionally, the article's next sentence:
> The movement, in fact, consisted of a diverse coalition of people from marginalized races and genders
Appears to be an attempt at proving the majority isn't white, but it doesn't support that claim at all. It can be true that there was a diverse coalition of voters, and white people still make up a majority of votes.
Then, of all your three claims, none of them disprove the claim that most Bernie voters are white. Everything you said could be true, but none weaken the claims of the comment you're replying to.
I suspect at least someone here doesnt understand that "60% of Latino voters and 30% of white voters" doesn't imply "white is not the majority vote" (since, for example, 60% of 10 is significantly less than 30% of 1000).
Yeah, it feels like you're trolling me. White vote, vs white men, is clearly different. America is a majority white country so obviously most votes will come from white people. Saying Bernie's support comes mostly from white men, as was claimed by the post I was referring to and the Bernie Bro narrative, is false.
> No one actually cared about the Taylor Swift drama
The Swifties cared.
Two close friends of mine, both of them Swifties, went to a The 1975 concert only because Healy had been linked to Taylor Swift. Said two friends live half a world away from the States and hadn't listened to The 1975 at all until all this scandal. They also are totally in the dark when it comes to ct, Adam Friedland or rs.
