Political Awareness Matters: How Black Lives Matter Are Screwing Themselves -- And the Rest of Us

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52. Bernie was cornered by a radio host the day after Hillary said All Lives Matter

She basically bullied and harangued him for that sound bite. I believe Bernie was also trying to take some of the heat off Clinton in his usual big and generous way. It also ticks me off that Hillary did not take any real heat for that #AllLivesMatter comment, while she got to be conveniently absent from Netroots Nation.

As I said in my post, I also think this Seattle disruption is suspiciously convenient for Hillary's campaign, and it certainly should be further researched.

That said, when I look at Bravenak's posts I don't see her guilty of much more than having a different opinion. Even if you are a fellow POC, I don't think there should be any pressure to agree. In the posts I saw she wasn't calling all Bernie Sanders supporters White Supremacists. The drift I caught was that pockets of Bernie Sanders Supporters were white supremacists (though I believe #AllLivesMatter might be addressed from the elitist as well as the Southern white poor side) and that Bernie had somehow not followed up on this at Netroots Nation, and he had also not given someone the chance to say a prayer at the start of his talk. Her posts that had been Juried weren't actually disruptive, so whether you think she deserves a time-out or not, she was Alert-mobbed for this particular "time-out".

I feel this is dissent-suppression: it would be better to know how people who are plotting such disruptions might be justifying them.