2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Third Way Progressives, Screwing the Plebs [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)I spent the better part of the past year railing against hillary, bill, welfare reform, mass incarceration, etc.
Then this summer happened. And ever since Hillary has been evolving, Bernie has been evolving, but only one side's supporters have been documented as having harassed black individuals. Many bloggers complained. People on twitter complained. It was happening in person. And bernie's fans were so mean to me called me racist after racist after racist after racist, and many not calling me names, just piggybacked on others... The stupid letters. The other folks I know around who are politically active complained to me asking if it was happening to me. Yes. Not one politically active person I know in person who is black and a friend has not confided about harassment, at times just for simply leaving a pro hillary comment on a hillary article. They get called names. Got yelled at and called a name in person at an informal meeting at school and told terrible things. This is no good. No good.
When it is told to the source, he refused to discuss it with journalists. That made me upset. When told to his grass roots, they spend more time accusing me and others of having nefarious intentions and refuse to address the harassment. They never tell their own grassroots peers to knock it of, it becomes a feeding frenzy where they do not see me as a human, just a sounding board for all of their pent up frustration and lash out and call me names. They see nothing wrong with calling me names as they see themselves as in the right and correcting the record. If I called even one of them racist back?? It would be this big ass deal. They complain about being called white supremacist by a woman in seattle who was addressing seattle, but they are free to call the next black person they see racist with no qualms. They think we cannot be hurt. Our feelings do not matter. Insulting us and calling us names is like insulting a piece of furniture. We are not real to them. I read HUNDREDS of nasty posts about me while gone. I rarely saw a bernie fan step in. They piled on.