Joe Biden got a huge win in the South Carolina primaries, and the Bernie Bros were in full force on Reddit melting down in thinly veiled racist terms. A Twitter user documented a lot of the messages, and they are truly awful.
#Bernie supporters on Reddit are taking the loss well. Calling voters in SC “rodents”, saying black voters in Southern States shouldn’t matter, and calling South Carolinians “uneducated.” #SouthCarolinaPrimary #BidenForPresident pic.twitter.com/MZDDbAkomH
— Garfed (@FliedGaff) March 1, 2020
#BernieSanders supporters are saying that black voters are “low information” and “voting against their interests” and “out of touch” and “are only voting for Biden because of Obama and not his policies” #SouthCarolinaPrimary pic.twitter.com/VtWUBuoiqG
— tepsac (@tepsac1) March 1, 2020
#BernieSanders supporters:
“years of terrible education in the south due to racism have caused black voters to not get the education necessary to see that only Bernie can help them… it may be necessary mobilize and discourage certain Black voters from turning out.” pic.twitter.com/DdiBDn7Q2v
— tepsac (@tepsac1) March 1, 2020
#BernieSanders supporters:
Black voters should support Bernie because he “got arrested protesting segregation,” and Southern states are “backwards” and should “fuck off” and if you’re black and supporting Biden “you are uninformed.” #SouthCarolinaPrimary pic.twitter.com/f5q29PiNco
— tepsac (@tepsac1) March 1, 2020
#BernieSanders supporters:
South Carolina “least representative state” of all the early states because over 50% of voters are black. Meanwhile all white Iowa and NH apparently are? Also, again, black People are “voting against their best interest”#SouthCarolinaPrimary pic.twitter.com/kNDhuDx4EH
— tepsac (@tepsac1) March 1, 2020
#Sanders supporters:
“I really do not think blacks, in a red state that won't matter into play in November, should get to decide for everyone else” pic.twitter.com/At56PolVyY
— tepsac (@tepsac1) March 1, 2020
There are some from Twitter too:
People won’t say it but the truth is that many voters in SC are low information voters. Which is a nice way to put it. Proof is that Bernie is killing Biden nationally and leading with black voters now too. But he is supposedly getting killed with blacks in SC.
— Mike Caccioppoli (@CaccioppoliMike) February 28, 2020
AND there’s already a backlash from Biden voters and others:
please refrain from your *hot* takes about Black voters in South Carolina being “low-information voters” and implying they are too ignorant to make the “right” choice for the Democratic nominee.
— Norris! (@NorrisButNoChuk) March 1, 2020
Man the Democratic primary is already a nuclear dumpster fire, and we’re only just beginning!! Can’t wait to stock up on popcorn for the rest… unless coronavirus kills us all first.