Martin Luther King fought equally hard for civil rights and economic equality.

[Ken Burch]

39. No you can't, and nobody is saying that social justice doesn't matter.

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At most, some people are saying that the struggle against social oppression and bigotry, crucial as it is, doesn't justify setting aside the struggle against exploitation and economic inequality and the concentration of wealth. They are intertwined struggles.

Economic injustice harms poc, women, and the majority of LGBTQ people just as much as social discrimination. and remindung everyone that those struggles condition each other, and economic injustice is much a form of oppression as racism, sexism, homophobia and trans phobia is the key to ending status-quo politics and building the biggest possible coalition for all the forms of change that we need.

Besides which, Bernie, the progressive candidate, has a BETTER record on every social issue out there than HRC, the supposedly "socially liberal, economically moderate(i.e., conservative" candidate does. Bernie never ran as the "I'm white, like you are" candidate, the way HRC did in 2008 in states like West Virginia.

What is it here that makes you feel so distrustful? Why are you assuming there's some huge effort going out there to get the party to put your concerns on the backburner?