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In reply to the discussion: WashPo: Warren just gave the speech that Black Lives Matter activists have been waiting for [View all]Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)The objections to BLM were never about its goals but the methods of a few of its members (amateur progressives still wet behind their ears) and their decision to target a democrat - with a 50 year record of fighting for civil rights - during an election campaign where losing will surely not advance law enforcement reform.
You and the DU members who relentlessly target and try to spin a negative narrative about other democrat, liberal and progressive members of this board and the democrat community at large do nothing but spread divisiveness and hate and weaken our party.
I don't know what it is with democrats such as yourself but you seem to have a mental block that says that vicious and direct accusations of racism, tone-deafness, homophobia or misogyny against your fellow democrats is a-okay. It's not.
I am convinced the ranks of democrats would be better off without self-appointed gate keepers such as yourself who engage in a relentless crusade specifically against other democrats, liberals and progressives who have their words twisted under your, frankly, bizarre interpretations. And I don't want to single out you. It's many regulars here too.
If your loyalty is to 3-4 pet causes and not democrats per se, I get that. But maybe if your tolerance and alliance to other democrats is conditional to them sharing your precise view on those causes, less you condemn them as racists or homophobes, perhaps you shouldn't be on a political forum called DEMOCRATIC Underground. Perhaps forums more specific to your favorite causes would work better for you and other DUers who share such a passion for those causes that they feel the need to explain to other democrats why they are such dispicable human beings.
This is a discussion board, not a report card.