I guess it is a stupid way to get your idea across... and it does tend to alienate people.

[sabrina 1]

189. Personal attack, and using the race of respected, historical people to do it.

What an absolutely ridiculous post, to accuse someone who refers to history of 'hiding behind' historical figures is one of the most shameful things I have ever seen.

Please stop using Civil Rights heroes to try to make some point you have clearly failed to make. Many people have now told you that you have completely missed the point of the OP and resorting to personal attacks is not going to change that.

You also accused me, without even bothering to check, of not 'writing about the events of Saturday and Sunday night. Again you were wrong. Several of us here on DU DID write about those events as they were happening, something I have done many times since the first day of this movement.

Here is one thread from last Saturday http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002234992. We followed the events for hours that night, the IMPORTANT events, on several different livestreams, on Twitter and as many sources, mostlyfrom on the ground sources as things developed, as possible.

And you will notice if you bother to read the thread, that no one there throughout the many hours we were recording events, even mentioned the Great Historical Flag Burning Event of 2012. Why? Because so few people even knew about it, the Occupiers were busy with more important things.

Many of us had already been following the planning of the event, and we knew that the tactic of taking over an empty abandoned building to use as a community center was based on tactics studied and used in other social justice movements, some very successfully. We also knew that the Oakland Occupiers did not expect to succeed, they intended to highlight the horrific conditions of Oakland's poor, the people left to die in the streets, while buildings stand empty, and the City does nothing about its poverty stricken citizenry.

Support for this event came from all over the world, including Egypt, Australia, Europe and elsewhere where people were watching in solidarity and then saw the brutality of the police, recorded by us in that thread as much as possible.

And what do we find on DU after the events of those two days watched by the world? The ONLY thing that happened that day was a couple of people BURNED A FLAG OMG! Shameful to see what is going on here, no wonder so many good DUers are gone.

Next time you accuse someone of something, make sure you check to find out if it's true. One thing I did not see you in any of the threads, so I guess you are not that interested in the movement, which is just fine. Except if you had been interested you would have understood the suprise of those of us who were writing about it and had been following it, to see only one, barely noticed event so highlighted on this progressive board.

Enough of this, you are beating a dead horse, and I am done with this conversation.