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1StrongBlackMan

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4. Yes ...

Reply to AuntPatsy (Reply #3)

Sun Aug 23, 2015, 11:31 AM

Aug 2015

It is a time honored strategy.

But I believe the strategy, as related to DU, is contrived, and goes one way.

I have yet to see a supporter of social justice primacy call someone arguing for economic primacy, divisive.

Hell ... raising/observing ANY issue of race, that doesn't cheer white liberals' efforts and progressive, is immediately met with cries of divisiveness by those that would prefer to only talk about economic solutions to social inequality.

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"Divide and conquer." [View all] Atticus Aug 2015 OP

While I agree with your conclusion ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2015 #1

+1 Scuba Aug 2015 #2

Though for some individuals such might very well be the outlying describing their recent actions but AuntPatsy Aug 2015 #3

Yes ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2015 #4

I honestly understand your frustration, personally for practically all my life I have been AuntPatsy Aug 2015 #5