Race-baiting twaddle. (Reply #20) - Democratic Underground

In the discussion thread: "A real liberal revolution starts with communities of color," by kos [View all]

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 09:23 PM

20. Race-baiting twaddle.

I cringe every time I see a white progressive demanding that black or Latino voters explain their support for Hillary Clinton. Do you not realize how horrible that looks, and how offensive that is, that white people are demanding that people of color justify their choices?

I'm a progressive. As such, I question anyone who isn't a member of the financial elite when they make political choices that are not progressive. Anyone. People of color don't get a pass. No one does. If someone finds that "offensive," then they should realize that I consider being told to apply a race filter to my assessment of political choices and actions to be offensive (and they will be succinctly instricted to go fuck themselves).

Every member of a free and democratic society has the right to ask for a justification of another citizen's political actions (although not the right to an answer...the person questioned has every right to tell them to piss off).

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60 replies	Author	Time	Post
"A real liberal revolution starts with communities of color," by kos [View all]	Koinos	Mar 2016	OP
There are many conservative POC	whatchamacallit	Mar 2016	#1
more of the same nonsense. it is nonstop. must be working though.	Vattel	Mar 2016	#2
I tried to explain this...	bravenak	Mar 2016	#3
You did ... often ... and very eloquently too ...	NurseJackie	Mar 2016	#5
Welp. It is what it is.	bravenak	Mar 2016	#6
Absolutely.	Koinos	Mar 2016	#10
Yeah, I agree.	bravenak	Mar 2016	#11
Yeah Im enjoying your writing and perspective as well.	JaneyVee	Mar 2016	#14
You should come.	bravenak	Mar 2016	#15
I've posted twice now	ismnotwasm	Mar 2016	#21
Whenever I post I'll start putting the links on hcs	bravenak	Mar 2016	#22
That would be helpful!	ismnotwasm	Mar 2016	#26
I just joined	wildeyed	Mar 2016	#28
"They just didn't want to hear it" ...	1StrongBlackMan	Mar 2016	#41
Over and over you did	ismnotwasm	Mar 2016	#16
What?? I don't care where it starts and this shit is bugging. We all count! I am sick of this color	thereismore	Mar 2016	#4
Color baiting?	bravenak	Mar 2016	#8
Hella funny	ismnotwasm	Mar 2016	#17
Too true!	bravenak	Mar 2016	#35
All colors matter!!!!!!	wildeyed	Mar 2016	#31
It getting funny in here	bravenak	Mar 2016	#34
LOL at "liberal revolution"*	Cheese Sandwich	Mar 2016	#7
k&r	Starry Messenger	Mar 2016	#9
apparently, that "real liberal revolution" line forms over there...	islandmkl	Mar 2016	#12
Great read. Now that it's pretty much over, Bernie deserves some credit.	Bleacher Creature	Mar 2016	#13
No he only started from nothing and built a national campaign that has....	Armstead	Mar 2016	#43
"impose your framing and issues on people who have different priorities"	BumRushDaShow	Mar 2016	#18
I have yet to meet anyone whose priorities do not include things like....	Armstead	Mar 2016	#44
But the difference is	BumRushDaShow	Mar 2016	#60
Sure, but if their priorities are so much at variance with my own...	Lizzie Poppet	Mar 2016	#54
This is dead spot on	EffieBlack	Mar 2016	#19
Race-baiting twaddle.	Lizzie Poppet	Mar 2016	#20
yet when told to "piss off" again and again, the harassment of women, of black voters continues....	bettyellen	Mar 2016	#23
It's called a political campaign	Armstead	Mar 2016	#45
It's also called shooting yourself in the foot. I don't take any of it personally, but wow I know a	bettyellen	Mar 2016	#46
I'm a progressive and Hillary Clinton is the progressive choice	ismnotwasm	Mar 2016	#25
Not by any political scale not skewed sharply to the right.	Lizzie Poppet	Mar 2016	#27
Yawn	ismnotwasm	Mar 2016	#32
Sparkling refutation.	Lizzie Poppet	Mar 2016	#38
Not interested in "sparkling"	ismnotwasm	Mar 2016	#47
Social skills, people.	wildeyed	Mar 2016	#37
Interesting interpretation of my statements.	Lizzie Poppet	Mar 2016	#40
Total whiff.....	wildeyed	Mar 2016	#51
Awesome projection!	Lizzie Poppet	Mar 2016	#52
Another swing and a miss!	wildeyed	Mar 2016	#58
I find discussions of universal issues being sidetracked problematic	Armstead	Mar 2016	#49
Deal with issues of race first,	wildeyed	Mar 2016	#56
Sorry, a real liberal revolution means everyone is involved...	TheProgressive	Mar 2016	#24
Newsflash: real liberal revolutions are NOT funded by corporations.	onecaliberal	Mar 2016	#29
Bingo	Armstead	Mar 2016	#50
"... no white-dominated liberal movement will succeed..." Hillary isn't White?	Tierra_y_Libertad	Mar 2016	#30
Well, that's only half of "white liberal."	Lizzie Poppet	Mar 2016	#42
Obviously, POC are needed in any real movement for change.	Ken Burch	Mar 2016	#33
More devisive crap. nt	haikugal	Mar 2016	#36
Great article.	wildeyed	Mar 2016	#39
Great article; but, wasted on the REAL and TRUE revolutionaries.	1StrongBlackMan	Mar 2016	#48
Hillary will never wage a war on greed.	GeorgeGist	Mar 2016	#53
More selective editing?	That Guy 888	Mar 2016	#55
I said this the other day.."there will be no revolution w/o people of color."	grossproffit	Mar 2016	#57
That's a reasonable point...but a different one from the OP.	Lizzie Poppet	Mar 2016	#59

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