If Bernie thinks the only way to win is to win white working class voters at the expense of

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129. This isn't about CEOs and what they do, and what shareholders want out of them.

He is using CEO as an analogy because it's a leadership role, but his point is about race. I'm not reading that into it. He's actually saying it. He is making the claim that race isn't important, but whether the person is qualified. Now. WHY would he make that point when someone is asking how they should go about being the first *insert minority here*? Think about that. He thinks race shouldn't be a focus because we risk unqualified people! (they might ship your jobs away!) His point is to ONLY focus on qualifications. And the only way to go about that is to "moe beyond identity" His response to her was NOT to support her in her quest for first, but to tell her it doesn't matter, because it risks unqualified people. Because he thinks minorites don't care about the details

His answer to her wasn't "Good for you! We need more women and minorities" It was, "We need more women and minorities, but" followed by his argle bargle about the risk of shipping jobs away by focusing on that. That says volumes.