Right-wing memes

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55. The crap is flying from people calling Black Lives Matters a right-wing meme

It's not a coincidence. It's a hostile display of white privilege, and even worse. Some of Sanders supporters seem to think he is owed support by African Americans, and they think nothing of insulting those voters and everyone else in the process. Sanders stumbled at Netroots, and he likely would learn from the mistake, except some of his supporters are determined he not learn, that he not figure out how to more adeptly address protesters and people of color. Why is that, I wonder? Do they not believe elected officials should have to answer questions from citizens and that instead the role of the citizenry is to serve great men? Or are they simply believe Sanders and themselves superior to the rest of the human race and therefore everyone else should submit themselves to their rule?

If voters don't automatically fall in line, they are a right-wing plant. You seem to think African Americans owe Sanders and the rest of you their allegiance. They do not. They have every right to question Sanders, O'Malley, Clinton, Webb and every other elected official. They have every right to protest the epidemic of police killings of black people, and that some are concerned that those protests may make one politician look bad shows precisely what their priorities are. When people argue Black Lives Matters are a "meme" or right-wing, when they insist African American voters who ask about what candidates will do to address the concerns of their community are "Lee Atwaters," they reveal an unflattering side of themselves.

I am done with such people coopting the words leftism and progressivism, when it is clear that they are anything but. There is a deep seeded right-wing ideology at work, but it isn't on the part of Black Lives Matter. I don't give a shit who anyone supports for president, but I do care that they work to muzzle activists fighting to save human lives.



One of the most incredible parts of this is people think this is actually helping Sanders, when it is doing the opposite. Some of Sanders supporters have effectively declared war on Black Lives Matters over Twitter. In the process, they are ensuring that Sanders does not gain AA support, and in fact they are costing him supporters. How they can't see this is inconceivable to me. The only explanation I can come up with is that their sense of entitlement is so impenetrable, they can't imagine how what any one else thinks could possibly be legitimate. Whatever it is, it makes me physically ill.