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In reply to the discussion: It's quite clear the DU isn't ready for Black Liberation... [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)54. Not seeing it.
If we're still talking about the comments under the link to the OP I just posted, they're about how Hillary is being slick enough to keep BLM protesters out of her events, not any sort of attack on the BLM protesters trying to protest her.
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Yes. Crystal clear that folks are conflating racial liberation as being a personal attack on the white
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#1
I'm going to post this Salon article again, because I don't think that we can get enough of it:
MrScorpio
Aug 2015
#4
The comments from some who are liberally posting Strawman nonsense elsewhere that they do not even care to listen to
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#7
Missed that one....shocking how defensive it all is, as if suddenly the white race is the victim!
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#8
The US was founded on the concept of white, Christian, english speaking supremacy.
guillaumeb
Aug 2015
#12
I question how any white person could call themselves a leftist and not realize they have white privilege
Starry Messenger
Aug 2015
#33
I'm about as obtuse as can be when it comes to seeing social issues from outside of my own comfort z
LanternWaste
Aug 2015
#34
Many of the folks talking shit about #BLM have been the same ones that have RAILED against this
Number23
Aug 2015
#46
Look in GD-P. The same crowd that is LOVING this shit is the same crowd that has called this
Number23
Aug 2015
#58
Maybe we shouldn't use fundi christians as our messengers around here.
Exultant Democracy
Aug 2015
#57
I liked what Gandy said about it only being a problem (along with once being conservative& now not)
Person 2713
Aug 2015
#61