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In reply to the discussion: Dems Like Leftism, Not Bernie Sanders [View all]OrwellwasRight
(5,317 posts)Hillary supporters claimed that he did, in order to draw a parallel to her surface focus on those issues while supporting nothing that would have actually addressed any kind of inequality. Did you ever see the video of her at her own fundraiser trying to get the #BLM activist to just shut up and go away? It was really awkward and painful to watch. As Bernie has said many times, we need economic justice, social justice, and racial justice. What we don't need is tokenism, and pretending that a woman in a board room is going to solve the very real struggles most of us non-affluents face in our lives. Here is a listing of the ways that Hillary's failure to focus on all kinds of justice hurt us (https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/22/hillary-clinton-the-anti-woman-feminist/) We need justice. And if you still believe that Sanders doesn't speak to people of color, check out the charts of the polls up thread.