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

[MADem]

154. I am not changing the subject.

But you seem a bit SENSITIVE, which rather does illustrate the OP point nicely.

Again--you are missing the point. As I said before, and I apparently must repeat because you did not hear me the first time I said that.

It's not about what "I" might like. It would be beyond my power to change it, anyway. Do I need to repeat that several times as well? I am not "defending" anyone--I am pointing out how differently certain people are RECEIVED.

No one cares what YOU or I might like, or want. That's not what this is about.

You might stop "defending" your candidate for just one second, and start to realize that this protest isn't about him, alone. There's a bigger picture here that you're missing, entirely because you're so mad at these young ladies for dissing "your guy."

Code Pink wasn't "nearly as over the top?" Reeeeealllly? They completely trashed Valerie Plame's testimony. Trashed it. Made it unusable for prime time news. Distracted from it, made it all about them. If you think an hour of pink tutus and other absurd costuming and miming and gestures behind some of the most important testimony during the Bush years wasn't as important as a few thousand attendees at a Seattle rally getting their feelings hurt, well, I think you have issues with scale. They shit on Obama routinely, and they snuggled up to Rand Paul.

Yet they've been INDULGED here by many down the years.

So let's be honest and look at some differences, here. The biggest difference here is that loud white people, with or without pink tutus, have an easier time of it than loud black people do when they go out to protest. Add young, and female and lesbian and (oooooh noooooo) "Don't give a shit about political parties" and it's torch-and-pitchfork time.

One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to see the difference. It's amazing, though, how many will continue to double down and pretend there's no difference, when anyone LOOKING can see it a mile away.