Why is it justifiable to censor (hide) an opinion by a well-known Black commentator?

[snagglepuss]

Yesterday I posted a you tube of the Smoking Glass Hour, using as the same thread title that is at You Tube which BTW is a direct quote of Barron Glass. I did not add any comments of my own.

To repeat: The subject line was a direct quote of Baron Glass, host of the Smoking Glass Hour and it is the "name" of the YouTube, however, DUers who took exception to the title deliberately ignored that it was his opinion and clutching at pearls used that to get the thread hid.

How is it right that a Black commentator who raises a question of whether Blacks are best served by Hillary is being censored on DU?


MORE IMPORTANTLY, given that Camp Bansalot regard this YouTube and it's contents as DANGEROUS, I'm hoping it gets widely circulated elsewhere on line.




http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512017776

[retrowire]

1. lmao

It's just that Hillary supporters don't like ANY unsupportive opinions. They are all hypocrites.

[mooseprime]

3. And they consider you bringing up

her vote in favor of using cluster bombs in civilian areas an unsupportive opinion

[retrowire]

7. GASP! lol nt

[Depaysement]

2. He committed a "thoughtcrime"

The Queen's vassals were not happy.

Some people need to be "brought to heel."

Oh, and by the way, that's probably now classified as "violence."

[99th_Monkey]

4. I saw that go down yesterday, and I also find it very disturbing that it was censored

Especially objectionable was the ham-fisted intolerance around the entirely plausible thesis
that some AA votes were cast --at least in part -- out of a sense of obligation, i.e. Obama
had his "turn" to be the 1st Black POTUS, and now it is Hillary's turn to be the first woman
Prez... hence "it's her turn".

The rationale for said intolerance hinged on the notion that holding that opinion amounts to
racism, in that "its suggesting Black people 'don't think about their vote'", when in fact it
suggests no such thing.

[Jennylynn]

5. I agree

And I'm sure there are more than a few AA who are voting for Hillary solely to make up to her for turning their backs on, 'the first black president's wife', and voting Obama.

[cui bono]

6. Maybe if you had put the headline in quotation marks and described the video

as being from a black commentator it would have gone over better.

There is, however, a problem on DU when it comes to discussion of anything regarding race. There is a very vocal group who will come in and shout down any discussion of blacks as a demographic and throw in "whitesplainin'" and "you think all black people think alike" etc, even though people are always discussed by demographics. PoC who were Bernie supporters were bullied by other PoC to the point where several of them left DU or post a lot less.

It seems to me that it's really about Hillary and not about race. You can post opinions of black people who support Sanders and they are either ridiculed or ignored.

It would be great if DU could have an honest and open discussion about these things but it will never happen because on DU partisan politics comes first, to the point of Hillary supporters constantly exploiting the very serious issue of race for political gain. That shows it's not about race, it's about Hillary. Serious issues get exploited/sidelined in an effort to defend politicians, racism, sexism... It's odd and disturbing.

Disclaimer: There are also too many people on DU who don't understand white privilege and systemic racism. My post is not about the entire scope of race issues on DU. Just wanted to add that in to say I understand there is an issue with people not fully grasping the problem of racism, just as there is one with sexism and LGBTT issues, but that's not what I'm addressing here.

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[Babel_17]

8. That title wouldn't cause much real fuss as an opinion piece in any major newspaper

Hopefully such censoring will backfire.