Social justice matters. Period. "But" nothing.

[daredtowork]

14. These threads and comments are starting to irk me

Though the cheapest shot I've seen is the one that suggested that if you don't separate social justice from economic justice then that's the same as adding a "but" on to BlackLivesMatter#

J'Accuse the lot of you of hijacking every decent social cause you can find to attempt to shed the economic issues - and lurking behind that is just the usual Third Way Style politics. Congratulations on growing up in such an economically secure environment that you can attempt to ditch all the people who still need to make economic issues a priority.

The sad thing here - and I think it speaks to relative positions of power - is that the people who do care about the economic issues are always smoothing things over and saying: "Yes, social issues are just as important. Yes racism was the dominant factor in police encounters. Yes, we're on board with feminist issues...etc., etc..."

But what do we get back from the people who prioritize social issues? Only strawman accusations and manipulative OPs about how people who don't separate the economic from the social most have this and that character flow.

You might want to think about how your actions appear.

People see you trying to cut off the economic left - and that's the part of the Democratic party that represents the weak, the vulnerable, and the poor.

Is that the message you want to convey?