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In reply to the discussion: I posted some things two years ago about Kamala Harris that were I shouldn't have. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)You had no reason to accuse me of comparing the Sanders movement(let's be honest, that's what this is about)to historically oppressed community.
I said that anti-oppression movements, and the labor movement, arose out of radical transformative visions-that they weren't universally "centrist" and incremental. Well, they weren't. They sat-in. They picketed. They marched. They disrupted. They made demands and stayed with them. And that's how they won when they won, because power gives up nothing, even increments, without a demand.
Why is that offensive? You know it's the truth.
And the false accusation that the Sanders movement would be equated buy anyone to an oppressed community, something you know I would never do, looks as though it is born out of an obsession with anathemizing that movement and, if possible, destroying it.
Only conservatives and conservatism would benefit from that happening, or from this party moving any further to the right on any issues.
And a centrist Democratic Party wouldn't be able to fight racism, defend choice or protect anyone from social oppression.