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The Vermont senator is now raising money for charity with his inauguration “Chairman Sanders” look.
Bravo Chairman Bernie. @SenSanders licensed his Inaugural mittens image to raise $1.8 MILLION for Vermont charities pic.twitter.com/loA1Hnosl8
The lady who knitted the mittens from repurposed old sweaters has gotten a gig out of her gift to Bernie from two years ago. She’ll be working with the Vermont Teddy Bear Company.
But according to a former UC Berkeley professor-turned-San Francisco public school teacher, those adorable mittens keeping Sanders’s hands warm are a sign of “white privilege.”
Gulp.
In an op-ed for the
David Knowles, Yahoo, February 3, 2021
Within hours of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, the Internet was consumed by images of Sen. Bernie Sanders sitting, stone-faced, bundled against the cold in a parka and colorful mittens. The meme turned into a fundraising bonanza for nonprofits and a symbol of a new administration getting down to business, as a contrast to the carefully curated image cultivated by its predecessor.
Who could possibly find fault with that?
Well, one person at least, a public high school teacher in San Francisco named Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, who wrote an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle that appeared on Sunday and quickly went viral. Seyer-Ochi’s objection was to the “privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege” symbolized by Sanders’s choice of a relatively casual Burton snowboarding jacket and repurposed wool mittens.
Teacher called humour police after saying Bernie Sanders mittens were white male privilege
3 Feb, 2021 07:17 PM
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By: Phoebe Loomes
A high school teacher has claimed in an op-ed that US Senator Bernie Sanders displayed male, white and class privilege when he wore a casual jacket and mittens to the US presidential inauguration. Sen. Sanders is no white supremacist insurrectionist. But he manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel, Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, a former UC Berkeley professor wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle.
She said as she saw the thousands of memes, merchandise and endless love for Bernie she puzzled and fumed . Her article is now being slammed online as ridiculous and Seyer-Ochi has been labelled the humour police .
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Last time we checked in on the San Francisco school board, they were busying themselves with rebranding buildings named after such problematic figures as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Paul Revere, and even Dianne Feinstein. None of the schools in question are open for learning, of course, but educating children in any sort of healthy or fruitful way is largely beside the point these days. The destructive adults in charge have now set their sights on dismantling one of the most prestigious and revered high schools under their jurisdiction. Their justification for seeking to take a wrecking ball to a bastion of established success? Diversity concerns, naturally. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: