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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders coming to Detroit to deliver opening-night speech at Women's Convention [View all]Ninsianna
(1,354 posts)headliner, I wonder why she feels the need to say two mutually exclusive things. Also, why wait til today to tell people? Knowing how many women would vehemently disagree and how all that's been mobilized when they pull these stunt is backlash as a new generation of activists raise their voices loud and proudly against silencing women to focus on white male career politicians in office for decades and whose recent record has been about divisiveness and stances that specifically angered women by promoting the unacceptable notion that women's basic human rights are "negotiable".
He was a terrible choice, and Tamika and her fellows are reaping just derision for their tone deaf handling of this situation. It's through the insistence of sponsor, Emily's List that local women running for office were even included, at a WOMEN's Convention.
It seems they didn't learn their lesson back in January, and they have been willfully deaf and deceptive in their actions now.
But hey, this insult has indeed motivated women to become active against just this sort of thing. We're tired of being silenced, lied to, and exploited.