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In reply to the discussion: Spin Off: I don't understand why folks question dedication to the Clinton's [View all]NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)For all the catastrophizing associated with not getting their chosen candidate nominated and elected, it ultimately doesn't affect us in the same way it affects non-whites.
Our voting rights haven't been gutted and barely protected by virtue of an aggressive Attorney General taking states to task. Our marriage rights don't hang in the balance of a Supreme Court decision. Our religious/spiritual practices aren't going to get us rounded up and registered in a database. Our families aren't being ripped apart by Immigration, and our children aren't being slaughtered without consequence by municipal law enforcement officers.
What a lot of white liberals don't understand is that black, Latino, and other minority voters have very rarely had the luxury of casting anything other than a defensive vote when it comes to national elections. White liberals can afford to throw a tantrum vote in November if their candidate doesn't get the nomination, because they don't have anywhere near as much to lose.
It's privilege, plain and simple. My fellow white liberals would understand all of this if they did something truly revolutionary and just shut up and listened.
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