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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Third Way Progressives, Screwing the Plebs [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)424. I love how folks some folks act like they are the only ones who read things around here!
The amount of denial and hilarious attempts at changing history is mind boggling if entirely unsurprising.
As is the unnecessary and beyond tired attempt at "the pile on" from the unnecessary and beyond tired usual suspects complete with mentions about ABUNDANT PMs. As if anybody could even pretend to give the first shit.
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A white person called a Black person a "race nagger" on DU, because the Black person
randys1
Oct 2015
#33
I am a Latina woman and I have children and Grandchildren. Hillary does nothing for me.
Autumn
Oct 2015
#18
All rights are being used as a bargaining chip and they will be used until we change the system.
Autumn
Oct 2015
#34
For profit prisons became the norm under the War on Drugs by the Reagan administration.
Autumn
Oct 2015
#82
Not really. My grandfather got veterans benefits, he got Social Security, he worked for decades at
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#109
My grandmother was a domestic. A maid. She was lived out and lived in poverty.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#112
I'm sorry that was her and many people's lot to be hosed but it is not the whole picture.
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#120
I know. I don't get all hero worshippy of any politician. Even Obama. He can handle criticism.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#123
I think you are way, way wrong on Sanders. His record doesn't even hint at such
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#199
No. I flipped the term and bastardized it just like some from the 'far left' have done
bravenak
Oct 2015
#391
He has not discussed the harassment. I have no idea why you think he has. He declined.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#35
I damn sure can!! Why ever not? They are doing it in his name and pretending nothing happened!
bravenak
Oct 2015
#65
So you are outraged about a vote that happened well before you were posting as a Bernie
cui bono
Oct 2015
#144
Explained above, although since I rarely get hides and can afford one I tried to search...
cui bono
Oct 2015
#147
It's by a racist calling Bernie a racist. I didn't say your post in and of itself was racist.
cui bono
Oct 2015
#303
Why have you not harassed the stockholm sybdrome guy or the race nagging guy?
bravenak
Oct 2015
#305
Yeah. I can see why a PoC might interpret that differently than a white person
cui bono
Oct 2015
#319
But again, you can't throw away a lifetime of fighting for civil rights and racial equality
cui bono
Oct 2015
#321
Again, that's ridiculous. So you're going to vote for someone who's worse on racial issues
cui bono
Oct 2015
#334
Look at the quote where he says that people shouldn't vote based on their own race. That is wrong.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#110
Explain how will Hillary help us as black people, when she shills for Wall Street?
JRLeft
Oct 2015
#301
Why would you think I think ANYBODY is gonna do a damn thing unless we force them?
bravenak
Oct 2015
#306
Of course they shouldn't! Why the hell should rational and decent people vote based on race?
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#213
You'll be voting for Ben Carson, then, should he win the Republican nomination? (n/t)
SMC22307
Oct 2015
#232
Where does he say that? I listened twice and didn't hear it. Can you give me the time in the video?
cui bono
Oct 2015
#235
You made the assertion. I told you I watched it twice and read the transcript underneath.
cui bono
Oct 2015
#272
You said he said people shouldn't vote based on their race or something similar.
cui bono
Oct 2015
#315
The 60s was a long time ago. He voted for mass incarceration after he marched and sat in.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#256
He's been fighting racial injustice since then. He has a strong platform on racial justice.
cui bono
Oct 2015
#269
Yeah, but he got arrested protesting for civil rights. You can't take that away from him
cui bono
Oct 2015
#292
I think people are getting too emotionally involved in the candidate and seeing themselves in him.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#72
You didn't have to "start" any of this considering that I didn't engage you in the first place
Number23
Oct 2015
#212
I love how folks some folks act like they are the only ones who read things around here!
Number23
Oct 2015
#424
I briefly worked as a store detective during my college years and did witness this sort of racism...
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#55
Third way progressives tend to minimize things and not notice their own failures.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#39
Wow. Some people work hard as hell to pretend that someone called them racist, don't they??
Number23
Oct 2015
#225
THIS> "I'm not seeing an accusation of racism per say but an education on the use of "uppity" and..
Cha
Oct 2015
#290
By your definition you didn't use "uppity" correctly. Yesterday I did, and in the correct way.
Bread and Circus
Oct 2015
#200
Me and apparently everyone here but you understands what the word "uppity" means
Number23
Oct 2015
#227
Racial inequality in educational and economic opportunity is way more important an issue than
Vattel
Oct 2015
#44
Why do you get to decide what is more important for blacks? Vattel... You know how that sounds...
bravenak
Oct 2015
#45
Hey, it's not my fault that so many more people die from racial inequality in opportunity than
Vattel
Oct 2015
#54
Tell that to all the victims of racial inequality in educational and ecomnomic opportunity,
Vattel
Oct 2015
#61
Unfortunately, there are plenty of racial injustices in our society and many are victims.
Vattel
Oct 2015
#64
What about the vast majority that aren't killed, fuck em? The blue gang does a drive by
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#230
Economic equality cannot succeed without addressing social justice as well. nt
Skidmore
Oct 2015
#344
True but what about the majority of black and brown kids that live in the meanwhile? Fuck em, right?
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#369
Seems pretty obvious when your response to a question about education is
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#375
His racial justice platform has the best rating from Campaign Zero of any canddiate
jfern
Oct 2015
#257
That's nice. I am still not impressed with the manner in which he refused to discuss
bravenak
Oct 2015
#260
I think the context of the harassment is important to figure out exactly what's going on
jfern
Oct 2015
#296
I did. I feel he lacks the executive skillas as I addressed in my peter principle article.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#304
Yes. She and I discussed that. You should have seen the asian privilege thread.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#347
Well, there are probably more young passionate Bernie supporters on the Internet
jfern
Oct 2015
#351
That Hillary site accepted me when I was feeling low. They treat me with kindness at all times.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#352
Yeah. But I like to focus on domestic slavery since it affects our society still.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#188
Yeah, like they came and took us in chains just to be mean to black people.
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#371
Strawman temper tantrum because the fiscal conservative/social liberal shit won't fly anymore, huh?
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#83
There is only one justice. The response is earned by anyone trying to parse it to make it acceptable
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#99
There is no justice without equality. The slave class mentality for blacks where they
bravenak
Oct 2015
#102
I already said just that. I also said that there is no justice in desperation and want.
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#115
Hillary touches poor black children. But not in a weird way. Lolololol! This is funny.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#133
You don't know anything about either candidate if you think they are not very far apart
cui bono
Oct 2015
#328
Same reason I don't like paternalistic anti social justice only money matters democrats.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#137
The crime bill pushed and supported friends of the black community, the Clintons?
TheKentuckian
Oct 2015
#365
So, no standing on principle? I guess that's fighting for us for fifty years!!! Except on prison..
bravenak
Oct 2015
#398
No, I guess you don't stand on principle. You show that all over this thread.
cui bono
Oct 2015
#400
If Prism's OP response to this thread is locked then this one should be too.
liberal_at_heart
Oct 2015
#191
My concern is politicians using social issues as a feel-good talking point to continue to ignore
Bonobo
Oct 2015
#195
Then do not ever trust anybody running for prez. That is power seeking behaivior.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#243
What actions has HRC taken that lead you to describe her as left of Bernie on Racial Justice?
aikoaiko
Oct 2015
#219
Then do not bother looking. No me importa. I do not care. It is not important to me.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#266
For us, hiring is social justice. Our applications often get tossed cause of RACISM.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#417
This is directed at those who are left on economics and right on social justice as in ignoring it.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#241
I find it strange that one side is allowed to bastardize the term third way, but they will
bravenak
Oct 2015
#393
I am making it about social justice. My voice will be heard. My complaints as well.
bravenak
Oct 2015
#401
Nor do i. I also do not believe thateconomic justice will ever come to blacks in this
bravenak
Oct 2015
#413
So is this how you've convinced yourself to support a center-right more of the same establishment
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2015
#433