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

[cui bono]

149. I believe it is being done because that's the only way they can tout their candidate.

By pretending that social justice must take precedence over economic justice because if you are for economic justice at all you are somehow, by definition, putting social justice on the back burner, they can say that their candidate is best because s/he is for social justice because that's the most important thing.

Truth of the matter is there is a candidate who is fighting for BOTH at the same time. And that candidate happens to be Sen. Bernie Sanders.

There is one person running around pretending to support Sanders and in the same sentence/post is saying he only stands for white males because his economic policy will benefit Wall St/corporations (yes, they said that) and then we have to wait for "trickle down" (again, yes they said trickle down) and so therefore it only benefits white males.

So I find the social justice vs. economic justice idea disingenuous. How hard is it, really, to see that we can fight for and have both? Nay, it is a ploy to push a candidate who has a poor standing on economic issues.