2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartmann Just Called Bullshit on Hillary Supporters Claims of Bernie's DNC support [View all]Bubzer
(4,211 posts)You're odd dichotomy of surreal being boring aside, you object to someone else's name calling but insist on doing it yourself.
I suppose you think the black protestor in question should be granted respect, in spite of her disrespect shown by calling everyone at a Bernie Sanders rally "liberal white racists"? Or, for that matter, the way she literally jumped up and down on stage and screamed her demands at the host, all while the host was trying to relay to the crowd that he was going to give her time to speak? How about the way she failed to denounce her cohort for physically pushing Bernie Sanders (which is assault and a federal offense)?
I do not and will not respect Marissa nor her cohorts. They are NOT representative of the movement for equal rights for PoC, regardless of if the leader of the "leaderless" BLM, Patrisse, post-hoc included them as part of BLM or not.
That someone else has strong feelings toward those protestors does not justify your disrespect. Call them on it, by all means, but derisive name calling simply justifiable.