Holy, are there people here seriously defending BLM Seattle's actions!?? What's wrong with you?

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Marissa Janae Johnson called Bernie Sanders a WHITE SUPREMACIST LIBERAL. She said the same about white progressives in the crowd, calling them and Sanders extremely racist and "white supremacist liberals." Never mind that that Sanders' father was an immigrant from Poland whose family was killed in the Holocaust. Nazi Germany and Hitler were driven by a white supremacist ideology that did not county Jews as "Aryan." Neo-nazi and modern white supremacist and white nationalist groups are also very anti-Semitic.

BLM Seattle also posted this on their FB page: "The problem with Sanders’, and with white Seattle progressives in general, is that they are utterly and totally useless (when not outright harmful) in terms of the fight for Black lives."

If these protesters are calling Bernie Sanders a "white supremacist liberal," they have no idea what that is. We used to have white supremacist liberals in our country: they were southern Democrats and Dixiecrats. They were white people mostly in the south who supported economically leftist policies such as FDR's New Deal, Social Security, unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws, and pro-union laws, etc., but they felt that black people were racially inferior, and supported white supremacist policies like banning interracial marriage, Jim Crow, and racial segregation. Strom Thurmond and George Wallace are examples. Dixiecrats largely stopped existing after Nixon's Southern Strategy in which the GOP took over the South though.

Bernie is the FURTHEST THING FROM THAT.

Every group is oppressed in different ways and bigotry does nothing to fix that. Rants about "white people" only reinforce the philosophy that bigotry is acceptable, so long as one feels oppressed. Where does it end if the oppressed group can indiscriminately hate on whatever group the oppressors are part of? So the Russians were justified in what they did to German civilians at the end of WWII? Then that must have given East German babies conceived of sexual assault the right to indiscriminately hate Russia once they grew up, right? WHERE DOES IT STOP?

Isn't it infinitely better to change "ugh, white people" to "ugh, bigots?" To spread the message that labeling and stereotyping and hating entire groups of people is wrong? That bigotry is unacceptably wrong? Marissa Janae Johnson doesn't know the attendees at Bernie's Seattle rally, doesn't know their life stories, what they believe in, or stand for, yet she called them all "racists" and "white supremacist liberals." There's a pic of her floating around with a shirt saying, "sipping on white tears." I find that despicable and prejudiced.

It's the kind of thinking MLK denounced. Malcolm X also denounced that prejudiced thinking after his journey on the Hajj. Making assumptions about people, stereotyping, having your default position being viewing people with distrust...that's WRONG.

BLM Portland said on their FB page "This old white man and his colorblind economic policies ain't gonna save us y'all." First, he doesn't have colorblind economic policies, he's always been intersectional and talked about institutional racism. Second, to me, it's weird to bring up the fact that he's first and foremost an old white man, without acknowledging his record or policy positions, especially relative to other candidates. That's prejudice and bigotry to me, which is unacceptable.

I'm a man of color. I'm Indian-American: I immigrated from India as a child. I don't have white privilege. I've been discriminated against people of all races due to my skin color. I think systemic racism against PoC is a huge problem in our country, and I want to combat it. Structural white privilege is real.

And yet, I strongly think bigotry against any race, or stereotyping, even against white people, is unacceptable. That's not progressive. That is regressive, bigoted, and reactionary, and should be condemned. If you supported the words and actions of Marissa Janae Johnson, you are NOT a progressive or liberal in my eyes. You are pro-bigotry and a reactionary and a regressive.