2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Online And In Person, Bernie Sanders’ White Supporters Advance A Black Lives Matter Conspiracy [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)for the last month or so. The "shitty game" is the one that has FINALLY lead to the unmasking of a certain cadre of white progressives who are every bit as hostile to mainstream black thought and opinion as white conservatives.
The unmasking is not to people of color. It's to other white people, particularly other progressives who have convinced themselves (and themselves alone) that it is simply impossible for a white liberal to be a racist. People of color have known that to be untrue since white liberals existed which is why every black leader has spoken almost as harshly about white liberals and white moderates as they do white conservatives.
So we find ourselves in a situation where black people have had to endure the most horribly, racist invective for the crime of interrupting a candidate for president's speech. And some people, such as yourself, have decided that instead of calling out the people who engaged in this hateful, harmful exercise -- the vast majority of whom fit a very specific criteria, WHITE SANDERS SUPPORTERS (even though judging by DU, there are a handful of black folks so pissed at black people that they are happy to join in the racist fuckwittery as well) -- you've decided to direct all of your ire at the people who are actually calling the racism and the paternalism out. When you're not pretending that a handful of brown people at a rally constitute a "multi racial" event.
What you don't seem to understand is that this is not just DU doing this. The ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET is calling these people out. They have been called out by EVERYBODY. The folks on DU that are pretending that this behavior is just a bump in the road or the work of trolls have their heads in the sand and are flat out lying to themselves. Don't be mad because the rest of us won't do it too.