2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBLM, Bernie and Hillary and key differences
When Black Lives Matter wants to get heard by a politician and uses disruptive tactics to get the message out:
Bernie Sanders has supporters who call the speakers rude and disruptive and condescendingly try to shunt black issues to the side.
Hillary Clinton herself calls the speakers rude and disruptive and condescendingly tries to shunt black issues to the side.
That's one key difference.
Another key differences is that racially insensitive white liberals who happen to support Sanders are not on the ballot.. However, Hillary Clinton *is* on the ballot.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)Is being retweeted all over the place. She does not take well to being challenged. And her comment that "no one ever asked me that before" then "let's get back to the issues I think matter" as the woman is escorted out by SS....
That should go viral.
shawn703
(2,702 posts)They came to hear about their white issues. Did you hear how they treated her when Ashley tried to bring up black issues?
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)SOME Bernie supporters called the speakers rude and disruptive. SOME. Others stood there and tried to be respectful and, of course, Bernie handed the protesters the mike.
forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)I'm just trying to underline the point that there's a difference between what a candidate's SUPPORTERS do (and I'm well aware it was only some Sanders supporters) and what the CANDIDATE does, and what the CANDIDATE does is far more important.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)many who sputtered in fury and started numerous OP's to express their hate for those activists are the same people who affected a great support of such tactics when it was straight people using them, and many of them accused Bernie supporters of doing what they had done to LGBT. I can link it up if you want. I can show you people saying disruptive activism is always wrong, under any circumstances, only fools would do it who later said anyone who did not support disruptive activism was a bigot. They left out the part where they themselves had not supported disruptive activism using the same arguments some Bernie supporters used.
Myself, I don't agree with any of those critics of disruptive activism, I've done that myself and assisted others in the doing even more often. Those who criticized LGBT or BLM disruptions are not my people. My people are the disruptive activists o' the left, minority persons engaged in emergency poltiics are my people. Those who denigrate them or only support those who are most like themselves are not my people.
You have a great day