Isn't that the point: Different people read/ hear the same thing but interpret it differently based upon their biases.
"Mainstream media outlets reported that Sanders’s base was made up of white male cyberbullies. Negative tweets had been amplified, and the words and behaviors of a few Sanders supporters all of a sudden were being portrayed as representative of an entire movement."
Why was their skin color and sex relevant?
If the issue was that they were "cyberbullies", then why does she follow up with this defense:
"Post-election analysis would show that the Bernie Bro trope was entirely constructed; there was no evidence to show that young white men made up a majority of Sanders’s supporters."
That is only important if "young white men" are, by definition, A Problem.
I'm so used to it I read right past it, but yeah, on closer inspection if any other race was used in this context or the source material I suspect it'd get cut real quick. And the author doesn't even bother to mince in some quotation marks to baffle the connotations.
Isn't that the point: Different people read/ hear the same thing but interpret it differently based upon their biases.
"Mainstream media outlets reported that Sanders’s base was made up of white male cyberbullies. Negative tweets had been amplified, and the words and behaviors of a few Sanders supporters all of a sudden were being portrayed as representative of an entire movement."
Why was their skin color and sex relevant?
If the issue was that they were "cyberbullies", then why does she follow up with this defense:
"Post-election analysis would show that the Bernie Bro trope was entirely constructed; there was no evidence to show that young white men made up a majority of Sanders’s supporters."
That is only important if "young white men" are, by definition, A Problem.