2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Holy, are there people here seriously defending BLM Seattle's actions!?? What's wrong with you? [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)So far, crickets. The one so-called apology, which apologized only for the white supremacist remark, not for denying thousands of people the chance to hear Bernie who most of them were there to see, was walked back, apparently that apologetic person was not part of BLM. The Seattle and Portland BLM sites, according to what I read last night, are still unapologetically supportive of all of it.
Until BLM gets its act together (assuming it is not together and this is just who they are), they have crossed the line in my mind, illegitimate disrupters who are damaging a very tenuous, and very rare, opportunity for a progressive challenge to corporate rule, which after all is where the police state comes from.
Very few of the posters on DU who support the BLM disruptions are posters who oppose the corporate wing of our party, they are quite happy to see the populist left's hopes dashed. And no doubt it is all our fault, or Bernie's fault, as we hear continuously. Sorry, not buying it.