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In reply to the discussion: Political Awareness Matters: How Black Lives Matter Are Screwing Themselves -- And the Rest of Us [View all]ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)11. No one's whitesplaining now
Calling the citizens of Seattle white supremacists does no favors to a cause.
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Political Awareness Matters: How Black Lives Matter Are Screwing Themselves -- And the Rest of Us [View all]
FourScore
Aug 2015
OP
Watching a particular segment of the Left trying to win the nomination while shitting all over
alcibiades_mystery
Aug 2015
#1
Yep. It's a political smear tactic against a candidate who cannot be attacked on any policy issue
GoneFishin
Aug 2015
#98
They're doing a pretty piss poor job of trying to make the case that we are "fake"...
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#60
Anybody who doesn't like being treated as a wartime enemy is a fake ally.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#75
I called a "follow the money" post out on another thread for this very reason.
6000eliot
Aug 2015
#7
The effects of the historic civil rights campaign in the sixties seems to have
Joe Chi Minh
Aug 2015
#62
No they don't. What I hear from them is STFU, we don't want to hear from you.
GoneFishin
Aug 2015
#99
Its a fair question, but they never allowed an answer. It was sit down and listen.
bahrbearian
Aug 2015
#124
Interesting that the discussion about BLM tactics has morphed into FK the Liberals Hmmm eom
LiberalElite
Aug 2015
#80
Reading the article through a certain lens, it suggests that people (the BLM movement) owe
KingCharlemagne
Aug 2015
#84
No one's listening, either. They made it clear what their goal is and you, among others, just ignored it. n/t
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#15
Obama has security around him that would prevent them from getting that close to him.
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#109
You think 3 women shouting and waving signs at whatever is the legal distance from the White House
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#116
They absolutely do. Just as white, upwardly mobile consumers do in every city.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#31
You've unwittingly demonstrated my point. They could institute rent control and other things...
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#36
Hopefully, it will wake some of them up to their complicity in the white supremacist power structure
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#43
More flowery tactics have clearly failed. So maybe something more radical is needed.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#61
The solution to gentrification is way too complex for me to fully comprehend...
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#42
It's illegal in Washington State for any city to institute rent control measures.
JimDandy
Aug 2015
#125
There are three choices that I can see. Bernie can either develop a plan like O'Malley did,
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#105
Clinton hasn't been having this kind of event. She's been meeting with small groups of supporters
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#29
They tried. The protesters tussled with them. Sanders left, probably out of safety concerns. n/t
FourScore
Aug 2015
#35
The Seattle Times reported that the police offered to remove the protesters from the stage
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#113
Bernie was cornered by a radio host the day after Hillary said All Lives Matter
daredtowork
Aug 2015
#52
I saw that bravenak's reply to one of my posts got alerted on and hidden.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2015
#78
That the park would rather scream at a protest against the mass killing and incarceration...
Lancero
Aug 2015
#50
Who knows? Perhaps Hillary is doing something diffrient then Bernies campaign is?
Lancero
Aug 2015
#53
"We're being murdered in the streets and you haven't done a whole lot to help us up to now."
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#67
Yes. I realise that, but I think Bernie would be by far the least compromised
Joe Chi Minh
Aug 2015
#76
And their tactics are saying "Don't do anything about it for at least 16 months"
jeff47
Aug 2015
#97
We need to all stand united, not divided. Otherwise, there is NO future for all of us! n/t
RKP5637
Aug 2015
#102