Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the race for the U.S. Presidential elections– probably the slowest race of perpetuity– last week, leaving her online supporters in a moral predicament. While Warren was hectic unwinding by appearing on Saturday Night Live, the kooky funny sketch reveal Americans seem to love a lot, her advocates were connecting themselves in knots trying to decide who to vote for. The argument being extensively made against Bernie Sanders, regardless of his policies aligning the most with Warren’s (from whatever little I comprehend of the strange world of American politics), was that Sanders’s really singing online assistance club was impolite.
The Bernie Bros, as they’ve come to be called, have built up a reputation of being loud, self-righteous, obnoxious, and rather mean on the Internet– much of them spent the past couple of months describing Warren and her flock as “snakes”. Like attorneys in a bar, Bernie Bros tend to be a bit much. And thus started yet another round of the excellent civility discourse. Is being respectful essential in politics? Is being mean worse than being morally on the wrong side of things? And on it dragged.
Circular squabbles
The navel-gazing around language is frustrating, fo