Post by Logan on Feb 21, 2016 20:19:54 GMT -6
Neither side was quite right on that Dolores Huerta ‘English-only’ shout-down
News is a developing, living thing. As new information becomes available, previous insights can be shown to be wrong or at least incomplete. And that -- not some grand conspiracy against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and his ardent supporters -- is what appears to be at the root of a fierce online battle about labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta's claim that she was shouted off a caucus stage with chants of "English only!"
On Saturday evening, as the Nevada caucuses drew to a close and Hillary Clinton was pronounced the winner, Huerta tweeted out a message indicating she had been barred from providing English-to-Spanish interpretation services at Las Vegas caucus gathering in Harrah's Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Her observations were seconded in a tweet dispatched by the actress America Ferrera. Huerta and Ferrera are Clinton supporters and have made no attempt to hide that fact. And at the caucus event in question, Huerta was wearing a Clinton campaign T-shirt.
But in the hours that followed those tweets, Sanders supporters -- in many cases using the very language that had given rise to the idea that some Sanders voters are rowdy to outright rude -- set certain corners of the progressive Internet on fire. There were allegations of media bias and of deliberate attempts by the Clinton campaign and/or its supporters to besmirch the liberal credentials of Sanders voters or cast them as frothy-mouthed racists.
Fortunately, one Sanders supporter who was also present at that caucus gathering, actress Susan Sarandon, dispatched a tweet with her take on the night's events and a link to a lengthy video that captured a large portion of the caucus.
Read more: www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/21/why-neither-side-is-quite-right-in-their-reads-on-that-dolores-huerta-english-only-shout-down/
News is a developing, living thing. As new information becomes available, previous insights can be shown to be wrong or at least incomplete. And that -- not some grand conspiracy against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and his ardent supporters -- is what appears to be at the root of a fierce online battle about labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta's claim that she was shouted off a caucus stage with chants of "English only!"
On Saturday evening, as the Nevada caucuses drew to a close and Hillary Clinton was pronounced the winner, Huerta tweeted out a message indicating she had been barred from providing English-to-Spanish interpretation services at Las Vegas caucus gathering in Harrah's Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Her observations were seconded in a tweet dispatched by the actress America Ferrera. Huerta and Ferrera are Clinton supporters and have made no attempt to hide that fact. And at the caucus event in question, Huerta was wearing a Clinton campaign T-shirt.
But in the hours that followed those tweets, Sanders supporters -- in many cases using the very language that had given rise to the idea that some Sanders voters are rowdy to outright rude -- set certain corners of the progressive Internet on fire. There were allegations of media bias and of deliberate attempts by the Clinton campaign and/or its supporters to besmirch the liberal credentials of Sanders voters or cast them as frothy-mouthed racists.
Fortunately, one Sanders supporter who was also present at that caucus gathering, actress Susan Sarandon, dispatched a tweet with her take on the night's events and a link to a lengthy video that captured a large portion of the caucus.
Read more: www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/21/why-neither-side-is-quite-right-in-their-reads-on-that-dolores-huerta-english-only-shout-down/