The irony of Bravenak...

[TeeYiYi]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Violet_Crumble (a host of the General Discussion forum).

...being silenced by a mob of angry white people on the one year anniversary of Michael Brown's murder, stands as an example of and a testament to one of DU's all time greatest fucked up 'coincidences.'

To Bravenak: My inbox is always open to you, my friend.

TYY

[Egnever]

1. .

[GGJohn]

2. Huh?

What happened?
Link?

[malaise]

3. Sad indeed

IBTL

[demmiblue]

4. Disruptive meta

[billymayshere]

5. Could you be more divisive?

"...being silenced by a mob of angry white people"

Please just stop already.

[Electric Monk]

6. 4 separate random juries hid different posts of hers in a single day, but she's the victim somehow?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=300456&sub=trans

[Kingofalldems]

10. 'look at those white ass crowds'...that's bigotry.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1171048


Should not be allowed here.

[romanic]

18. +1

Plus I'm insulted by the comparison between the death of Michael Brown and a forum member being put on time out.

[Kingofalldems]

19. Absolutely.

[MADem]

7. Hear, hear!!!!

And now, for a musical interlude:

[Starry Messenger]

8. k&r

[NaturalHigh]

9. When you manage to get seven posts hidden in just a few days...

I don't think you're the victim. Yes, I know someone will scream "ALERT STALKING!" but seven juries agreed with those alerts.

[former9thward]

12. Not exactly unanimous.

Six were 4-3 and the other 5-2.

[NaturalHigh]

13. How often do you see unanimous juries around here?

[former9thward]

30. I only see the jury results of those I am on.

Plus the occasional posting of someone else's. I don't know how many are unanimous. Do you?

[ljm2002]

21. Why would anyone on a DU jury...

...NOT vote to hide at least the 2 posts claiming that Sanders crowds included white supremacists? The fact that those two votes were not unanimous stuns me. And yes, if the same comments were made in a post about a Clinton crowd, and if I were on the jury, I would vote to hide it.

[KittyWampus]

11. Totally support your observation. The DU'ers who've spent the most time trashing Obama

and other elected Democrats are the least able to deal with any criticism of Bernie Sanders.

Thinnest skin, loudest mouths, most eager to silence others while calling everyone else authoritiarian.

[ljm2002]

14. I looked at the posts...

...two of them stated unequivocally that Bernie's crowds included white supremacists. I guess that's okay since it's the anniversary of Michael Brown's shooting. So can you make us a calendar, so we know which days of the year we have to allow posts like that so we ourselves won't be accused of being "a mob of angry white people". Thanks.

BTW: No I was not on any of the 4 juries that hid posts by bravenak today.

[dsc]

15. I looked at all the hidden posts

some were fair hides but others were not. And to be blunt, probably the majority of them wouldn't have been hidden if she had said them as a Bernie supporter about Hillary supporters instead of vice versa.

[ljm2002]

17. Well I read today's 4 posts...

...and two of them were VERY fair hides. I certainly would not vote to leave a post that accused a Hillary crowd of including white supremacists. But that is exactly what bravenak said about Sanders crowds.

[woolldog]

29. Yup.

The big problem with the jury system here is that it is not applied evenhandedly with the purpose of enforcing the TOS. It is used to enforce a particular POV/orthodoxy that is primarily white, far left, Bernie Sanders (as opposed to Hillary) supporting. Most of those hides were BS except they challenged that POV.

The jury system on DU is simply a way of bullying those whose opinions aren't mainstream for DU and to create an echo chamber.

[MFrohike]

32. Um, what?

Last I checked, she repeatedly mentioned her like of Sanders over Clinton. Her problem, from what I could see, was Sanders' supporters, and the Senator himself at times, seeming to miss the interplay of race and class in America. I saw her as a friendly critic, not on the Clinton team. Given that, I think your axe grinding in this thread is in poor taste.

[cali]

16. link?

[MellowDem]

20. Maybe the irony...

is more related to the Seattle BLM protesters who disrupted poorly. I'd say bravenak getting posts hidden for bigotry is more akin to poorly disrupting and has next to nothing to do with Brown's death.

Maybe you speak for all white people though. After all, you assume the jury that hid 4 separate posts were an angry white mob, I guess you can read minds.

Fucked up coincidences indeed, but when you can read minds, there are no coincidences, so your post makes no sense.

[alcibiades_mystery]

22. For real

[seveneyes]

24. silenced by a mob of angry white people?

Now that is some really messed up fabrication of imagination.

[panader0]

28. What you said

[GGJohn]

26. How the hell do you know that

all the jurors were white people?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

27. A #BLM leader turns out to be an embezzler; another a fundie Palin supporter.

But, yes, let's attack white DUers because Bravenak's "white supremacist" mouth got her in trouble!

[Violet_Crumble]

31. Locking...

From the SOP:

Threads complaining about Democratic Underground or its members; threads complaining about jury decisions, locked threads, suspensions, bannings, or the like; and threads intended to disrupt or negatively influence the normal workings of Democratic Underground and its community moderating system are not permitted.