1. El Historial Problemático del Candidato.
La discusión se centra en un candidato progresista al Senado, Graham Platner, cuyo pasado incluye un tatuaje nazi (Totenkopf), servicio como mercenario en Blackwater, y un historial reciente de comentarios en redes sociales que exhiben racismo, homofobia y apología de la violación. Estos elementos son considerados descalificadores por una parte significativa de los comentaristas.
- Wow, nazi tattoos, anti-gay slurs, racism. And there are people like bernie sanders out there trying to elevate this fucking pos into congress.
- Being fine with gay slurs used as recently as 2021, the nazi tattoo, racism, misogyny, blaming of rape victims, plus mercenary work at blackwater is not a good indicator of primary voters. Bernie only believes in identity politics for disaffected white dudes.
- I feel as though getting a nazi tattoo is disqualifying. His shitposting is racism and misogyny. Save the apologia for the republican party.
- He just made excuses for a guy with a nazi tattoo. Im in ca. The ppl of vermont can do what they want. But why the national left thinks that bernies tolerance of racism, sexism, and now antisemitism, is ok is beyond me.
2. La Ceguera del Progresismo Blanco y el Classismo.
Líderes de izquierda, notablemente Bernie Sanders, son criticados por defender al candidato y minimizar la gravedad de su historial de odio, argumentando que los problemas de clase son primordiales. Esta postura es vista como una forma de "solidaridad blanca" y una negación activa de la realidad del racismo sistémico.
- Bernie always excuses racism by saying its used by the powers than be to divide us, ignoring that the racism is actually real.
- Bernie overlooks racism all the time to encourage class solidarity. Racism is a distraction to him.
- Bernie sanders actively states that racism only happens because of impoverishment. No one in mlks generation would side with that conclusion.
- White leftist like bernie who are discounting platners racism and nazi tattoo, arent doing economic populism. You are doing white solidarity politics.
3. El Racismo como Factor Disuasorio y su Normalización.
La controversia expone una "bancarrota moral" en la izquierda, donde la necesidad de ganar elecciones o apelar a la clase trabajadora blanca lleva a tolerar el racismo y el nazismo. Se subraya que el racismo y la simbología nazi deberían ser descalificadores absolutos, y que la disposición a excusar estos actos es una señal de la normalización de la intolerancia.
- The moral bankruptcy of the incoherent left has been laid bare. Racism, misogyny, antisemitism, and nazi iconography body art are acceptable as long as the candidate spouts the correct slogans about class, minimum wage, and healthcare.
- I think the lesson with platner, similar to the one with fetterman, is that you simply cant trust white men who have said and done racist shit. Racism needs to be a 100 deal breaker unless that person has unequivocally apologized and then become a serious anti-racist.
- I feel like 10 years ago this would hardly have been a question. Both parties would have immediately balked at a candidate with a nazi tattoo. But trump has thoroughly normalized hardcore racism. Were at a point where even some folks on the left are willing to swallow it.
- The inclination to give the guy with a massive nazi tattoo on his chest the benefit of the doubt is itself morally damning, they say. The appeal to nuance or forgiveness is just a form of self-deception motivated by a secret tolerance of racism, nazism, or something else.