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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And few of us would have supported him if he did.
What I hear him saying is that working-class people of all races should not have been discarded, as they were after 1981 or so. A lot of those people were black, Latinx, women. More were LGBTQ than you might expect.
Bernie's on the Left-while he was trying to get class unity, I seriously doubt that he intended economic justice as a whites-only thing. The way I always heard it, he was saying that, as we address social oppression(which seems to be defined here as institutional and grassroots bigotry, while leaving out the fight against poverty for some reason) we need to address the way that people have been economically oppressed by the system as well-that, in doing that, you can get broad support for a just, hatred-free future because everyone who has ended up on the short end of the stick is included
Is there a way to communicated what I wrote in the first sentence of this response that would not have caused the reflexive(and historically understandable) response that you and others have?