The attacks on Bernie's commitment to fighting racism were always totally unjustified, and HRC never once called out those who made them.
Bernie has NEVER felt that the fight against institutional bigotry was less important than the fight against economic injustice. He has always been equally committed to both fights, and so have his supporters.
The slanders on Bernie on this issue, IMHO, are the cause of most of the more-intemperate posts from Bernie's supporters.
If they just didn't think he could win in the fall, they HRC campaign should have stuck to that issue.
They should never have attacked Bernie for a failing he doesn't exhibit.
And there was never any excuse for HRC's campaign to ever, under any circumstances, encourage the myth that the "social justice" and "economic justice' causes are in conflict with each other. The vast majority of those who fight for "social justice" get it that corporate power needs to be brought under control, and virtually everyone who fights for "economic justice" believes, with equal passion, that institutional racism, sexism, homo-and-transphobia, and all other forms of insitutional bigotry need to be combatted and defeated. Both causes, while separate, are dependent on the victory of the other cause to assure their own victories.
HRC has only served the right wing in this country, has only served the wealthy, the powerful, and the white-hetero-masculo-Christiano-centrists among us by sewing this pointless division. She should be ashamed of ever using such tactics.
We stand with the victims of ALL forms of oppression, or we stand with none of them.
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