2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What Black Lives Matter Gets Wrong About Bernie Sanders - Reuters [View all]zeemike
(18,998 posts)Not to BLM or to black people in general...but that is the thing here...you cannot comment to one person without it being taken as a reply to the entire race as as if that one person represented them all.
But there are lots of white kids killed in Iraq and Afghanistan even today...and if I post my outrage against that does that give me the right to claim no one should criticize me...that they should just sit down and shut up because you could never understand the pain I feel?
Well I never mentioned my "feelings"...it was my observatories. And no matter how many times I say it is wrong and it needs to stop you always spin it back to I don't care, and I don't care about their feelings...So I can never win this discussion because this is not honest to tar me with it over and over again, with no hope at all of ever being able to answer the charge against me...it is just repeated.
Frankly it reminds me of the Culture revolution in China under Mao...where people were publicly denounced for any perceived deviation from the party line.
It is circular and persistent and nothing I can say will change that...it is as close to bulling as it can be.
But if you want to know my feelings I will tell you...This (kind of conversational rhetoric) is divisive and I feel this is in large part why the Dem's lose so often in elections. They dwell on the negativity and create hostile attitudes even among their natural allies...good enough is never enough to satisfy.