White fragility (lot of this around here recently!):

[MADem]

116. There's a fine line between snark and actual disapprobation that you

are having a difficult time divining. You don't have to love the topic of the protest, but this whole "They had no RIGHT" vibe I'm getting is unintentional hilarity.

I didn't feel a need to start a single thread about Code Pink, and neither did most people--save the few who praised them. Nor did I feel a need to start one, never mind scores, about Lewis--and neither did most people. Yet I'm looking now at DOZENS of poutraged threads about three 20-something girls DARING to disrupt a rally, like it's the crime of the century, all tinged with this attitude that they're SUPPOSED to be allies of the left because of their skin color. Frankly, the impression I'm getting from those young ladies is that they don't give two shits about the left--or the right. Their agenda is far more direct and personal. I don't think ANY candidate--and by ANY, I mean ANY--should think they'll get support from those three at all.

They sure got some people's attention, though, didn't they?

And sorry, Lewis may have put a good face on that Occupy situation, but he asked--he, a civil rights icon I'd be proud to shake hands with--to simply address them, he didn't go there for a photo op or to deliver a few bags of clean socks--and they took their little talking stick, gave him the hand, and rather pompously said NO. What was he going to do, play the "Do you know who I AAAAAMMMMMM?" card?

I consider that rank stupidity, but I'm not going to create twenty or thirty poutraged threads about it.

Those now-dissolved Occupiers can "protest" allowing a living legend to speak to them all they want, just as Code Pink has the right to make asses of themselves, or go kiss up to Rand Paul, for that matter.

Our country was founded on the concept. It's something we accommodate.

I think it's hilarious that so many here just can't keep that in mind when they are faced with a protester or three they don't like. The themes expressed vary, but they're all shocked, shocked, that anyone would protest their candidate, angry and suspicious and convinced that those protesters don't know their own minds, that they must be compensated for the efforts by some unseen hand, and then, of course, there are the personal barbs: "How DARE they!!!" "The NERVE of them!!" SOOooooo disreSPECTful!!!!" "Paid OPERATIVES!" "That George SOROS is behind this!!!!" "Naw, It's HILLARY--she's paying them!!!" "What's their orientation?" Thread after thread after thread after thread--and not just in GD-P...they're all over GD, too, even though they're dealing with the rally for a candidate.

Misrepresentation, eh?

It's pretty obvious that there's a disconnect there.