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In reply to the discussion: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bernie Sanders, and Reparations [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)As I said up-thread, the issue here is hypocrisy.
What we are saying is equivalent to why don't we treat a Democratic woman who is pro-choice and gets an abortion with derision when we would treat an anti-choice Republican woman who gets an abortion, tries to hide it, and campaigns against choice with disgust. It has nothing to do with the abortion and everything to do with hypocrisy and double standards. You're focusing on the issue and the fact that no candidate is for it. It's not about that.
Same thing with a Democrat who doesn't bathe themselves in religion and family values who has an affair and the difference between them and a Republican who does/did wrap himself/herself in the cross and family values and then gets caught having an affair.
Seeing Republicans discuss this kind of stuff on their forums its clear they don't seem to understand this or they willfully refuse to get it. They are focused on the idea that both folks had affairs. Why arent we treating it the same. It's not about that.
Sanders and his supporters claim nothing is too difficult to accomplish. He can wave a magic wand, mobilize his supporters and force the Ryan controlled GOP House of Representative to pass Single Payer. Everytime someone like me complains that this is not possible your fellow Sanders supporters dismissively call me a pessimist at best.
OK, fine, so why can't he get reparations passed, or anything else for that matter. You want it both ways here and Coates is pointing it out.