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The fact of the matter is Bernie has always been weak on race issues. He botched the BLM protests in 2016 and has never had sufficient outreach to the Black community. I don’t think he’s a bigot at all, but he doesn’t seem to understand that there is more than class war. To dismiss the concerns of the Black community in America as being just part of a larger class war is incredibly insensitive. All classes of white people have marginalized POC in this country repeatedly throughout its history.
I love Bernie, but this is a major flaw of his. In 2016 it was somewhat understandable as he is from Vermont and was kinda blindsided by everything, but he still has not progressed on this issue and I don’t think either he or enough of his supporters get how off-putting it is to these communities.
At the end of the day? Sanders is a rich, privileged, 84-year old white male. And he has been a professional politician for almost half his life.
Sanders argues for class politics and fucking good for him. But he ignores race and identity because... that hasn't been a concern for him in closer to 60 years than not. Same with his LONG track record of shitty views on immigration: American Leftists (also other countries) kinda were actively opposed to immigration up until fairly recently as it was largely viewed as a way to bring in cheap labor to take away American jobs (and... it kinda was....).
But what that results in is that we have an 84 year old man who thinks he still is living in the 1970s and 1980s... in the 2020s. And now that he finally has a platform after literally being the meme about how nobody gives a shit about white guys talking on CSPAN... he is rapidly becoming an example of why it is ALWAYS shut the fuck up Friday and it maybe is time for grandpa to step down.
But the problem is that so many people have decided he is the only hope for "socialism" in the world and are insisting that any shitty thing he does isn't a symptom of being old as fuck but is actually some deeply intelligent 4-d chess. Which is why "h1b visas are bad" is such a "both sides" talking point and so forth.
Think about it this way: You are going to the store to buy some bulk food. Let's say kidney beans. You grab the scooper, try not to think about who the last person who used it was, and then dump a scoop or four into your bag. You eyeball it to make sure nothing looks overly bad, but you aren't going to individually check each bean. You'll just dump them in water and see which are the bad floaters. It is less than a few pennies worth of lost food so whatever.
Good on you. You are privileged. Most of us are.
Now understand there are people in the world who can't do that. They actually have to very slowly add the loose beans to their bag because a lot of them ARE rotten or overly damaged.
It isn't an inherent flaw that you or I don't check each individual bean. But it also means that we don't have the perspective to advocate for those who need to.