There is hard data that shows "Bernie Bros" are a myth. More ridiculous than the Antifa threat. No evidence.

[_DoubtingThomas]

"There is hard data that shows "Bernie Bros" are a myth"
https://www.salon.com/2020/03/09/there- ... re-a-myth/

It is sad that I have to create the topic again. So I will try it again.

I am interested in the data, so is there any data that proves Sanders has a lot of sexist supporters? Extraordinary accusations require extraordinary evidence. I suspect most of the Bernie Bros were really just Hillary/Biden trolls trying to make the Sanders movement look bad.

[_honorentheos]

I love me a thread that makes a claim that the OP and like minded posters then go on to refute by their own behavior. It's delicious to the taste, and very desirable.

Dude: Guess what? Bernie Bros aren't a thing, a study proved it.

Other dude: Oh? There's a study that shows Bernie Sanders supporters didn't bully people online - women in particular - who aren't all in, fully committed to the movement?

Dude: No, it didn't show that. It just claims people are assholes on social media in general, ergo Bernie Bros don't exist.

Other Dude: ummm, I don't think it meant they were the only assholes on the internet, but that they behave a certain way towards certain people and...

Dude: NOT A THING! AND EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES CAN EAT ____ AND DIE!

[_DoubtingThomas]

Other dude: Oh? There's a study that shows Bernie Sanders supporters didn't bully people online - women in particular - who aren't all in, fully committed to the movement?

Can you please show me a study that proves Sanders has a lot of sexist followers?

Sanders believes in gender pay gap and somehow has a large number of sexist followers.

[_honorentheos]

The study you linked to suggested that people supporting one of the Democrat candidates on Twitter are negative at roughly the same rate. There just happen to be a lot more Bernie followers.

What it doesn't show is that the larger number of Bernie followers who post negatively at a similar rate (though Bernie followers are on end less likely to post positiviely and more likely to post negatively) are not posting in a harassing way or behaving negatively disproportionately towards women, etc.

Given the large discrepancy between the number of followers and the edge Sanders followers have as being more likely to post negative, even if only a percentage point or two, makes your article a source for suggesting Bernie Bros actually are a thing.

It's basically trying to collapse the issue through proportions to divert attention from the numbers. Bernie's 17.9 million followers compared to Warren's 8.3 million means if 40% of his followers post negatively he has about as many negative posters as Warren has total followers. Biden, third in his analysis, would have half as many total followers as Bernie has followers who post negative sentiments if that were the percentage.

What it shows: Bernie has an army of online followers of whom a high number of total posters use the forum to post negative sentiments compared to other campaigns who had a significantly lesser presence on Twitter.

[_DoubtingThomas]

It's basically trying to collapse the issue through proportions to divert attention from the numbers. Bernie's 17.9 million followers compared to Warren's 8.3 million means if 40% of his followers post negatively he has about as many negative posters as Warren has total followers.

Can you prove that 10% of his followers are sexist?

[_honorentheos]

I can do you one better and show you are. Would that work for you?

[_DoubtingThomas]

I can do you one better and show you are. Would that work for you?

Really?

[_honorentheos]

If you'd like.

[_DoubtingThomas]

If you'd like.

Trump won't win a second term. I do not understand why you are so mad at me.

[_moksha]

Trump won't win a second term.

He wasn't supposed to win a first term and then Murphy's Law of the Perversity of the Universe kicked in.