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In reply to the discussion: It tells us nothing at this point that HRC beats Bernie among women and poc. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I guess what I look at(as an outsider)is the AA community supporting Bill Clinton when he never fought for them in office that I could notice and when he never challenged the Republican meme that everyone on welfare was a single black mom who was popping out kids for the hell of it(actually, the largest single group of people on welfare are white).
And women backing him when he never really backed them(he was barely pro-choice, did nothing to challenge the demonization of women who had abortions, and when he insulted their entire gender by endorsing the "welfare mother" meme.
And LGBTQ people backed him when he pissed on them by agreeing to DADT and signing DOMA.
To this day, HRC has never publicly(to my knowledge) challenged any of the above.
And yet Bernie gets treated as untrustworthy because he talks about economic inequality...as if doing that is the same thing as ENDORSING racism, sexism, homophobia and trans-phobia. And as if economic inequality somehow doesn't affect poc, doesn't affect women, doesn't affect gay and transgender people.
Obviously, addressing economic injustice does NOT make social oppression vanish-we all know that. But it does help. and including it in the discussion(as HRC didn't until recently) does nothing whatsoever to weaken the movements against social oppression and for human liberation on all levels.