LMAO!
Cenk saw the light a LONG time ago and has apologized sincerely. For a long time now, he advocates for women and Armenians. No idea what exactly the anti-jew claims and anti-gay claims are, possibly very old or fake, but I know he has apologuzed for anything like that, or Bernie Sanders wouldn't be associating with him. As for Islamophobia... the dude was raised a Turkish muslim and advocates for muslims constantly. Fake news on the islamophobia 1000%.
If you've seen any of Bernie's old articles, I wouldn't exactly be citing him as a positive indicator.
I hate to use reddit as a source, let alone r/Enough_Sanders_Spam, but they do actually have a pretty good mega post on him, especially some of his old essays he wrote back when he was living in Vermont before his first election.
Now, he's certainly not anti-semitic or homophobic or anything, but he has said some pretty wacky things, including about women. Some highlights:
"People are becoming aware that the function of our schools is not to educate our children but in fact to do the very opposite - to PREVENT education."
"it is better for their children not to go to school at all then for them to attend a normal type of establishment."- Bernard Sanders
North Montplier
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157401-sanders-destructiveschools.html"Many women seem to be walking on a tightrope now. Their qualities of love, openness, and gentleness are too deeply emeshed with qualities of dependency, subservience, and masochism."
- Man and Woman, by Bernard Sanders
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bernie-sanders-essay/And finally, this one is too long and I'm too tired to dig up specific quotes in, but here's the essay where he attacked age of consent laws and linked cancer to a lack of orgasms:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157403-sanders-cancer.htmlRegardless of your personal thoughts on Bernie's policies, one has to admit that these writings are super nutty, if not worse (though we obviously don't know if he still believes these things). Certainly however, they should be enough to block mere association with him from being a disqualifier for being sexist/looney/etc imo.
