2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)I mean I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
You will put all this time and effort into stuff and look at the responses. Too many of these people will DELIBERATELY misinterpret and distort what you've said. They don't give a fuck. They don't have to.
In the other thread, one "progressive" (dude actually has PROGRESSIVE in his fucking name) thought it was knee slappingly funny that a black female progressive activist at Netroots Nation felt unsafe because of Sanders supporters there. What kind of diseased person finds the harassment of women and poc funny? What kind of "Democratic" web site allows people to feel so comfortable that they have no qualms about saying shit like that, and especially to a black female poster????
And some of the ones rushing in here now to pat you on the head for this OP are also some of the ones that have done nothing but chase after and harass many of the remaining black posters here -- and I mean have done this FOR YEARS -- including alluding that we aren't black or are "infiltrators" to DU and the Democratic Party, when they aren't ignoring or minimizing black issues altogether and/or distorting the legacies of black icons to suit their needs.
Put your gorgeous, beautiful mind to more important and rewarding efforts. Even the people who started this web site have given up on it. Keep going with your poetry. It is wonderful. Start your own political blog and speak to an audience that if not smart enough to understand and empathize with what you're saying, you can at least have some control over the level of dishonesty and bullshit you have to read and go through.
I rec'd but I want you to do something more worthy of you.