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In reply to the discussion: I posted some things two years ago about Kamala Harris that were I shouldn't have. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)By "we", all I meant was the broader community of change and the Democratic Party-I was actually including you.
Nothing in that even remotely equated to comparing white male leftists to oppressed communities. I've never believed there was any equation and would not make it.
It's not equating white male leftists to oppressed communities to say anything that implies that the economic justice movement is politically and socially legitimate, or even that the Sanders campaign, now long ended, was something that had to happen.
And I'm not "hard left". Hard left is Maoism and the Khmer Rouge, not just too far to the left for your personal comfort. It's not "hard left" just to reject the idea that all we can ever get is half-loaves, quarter-loaves or sometimes just slices. All of us know that sometimes partial victories happen, but that doesn't mean there's an obligation to never even try for big victories or for social and economic transformation.
We don't have to check dreams at the door.