2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Lives Matter! Period. Therefore I Have Altered my Primary Intentions. [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)You are trying desperately to twist this into something of your liking.
Your second paragraph is false. As I have stated many times, the record is touted because his stance on social justice has been attacked endlessly on DU. There has been a meme on DU, long before the BLM incidents, that Bernie's policies and he himself, are just for white males, that his crowds were "lily white *wink wink*". How do you propose his supporters counter that if not with his record?
It's been an interesting process to observe though. Attack Sanders on social justice knowing full well that supporters will defend him since he has a great record on it, complain that his supporters keep touting his record (as if that's not what people do about political candidates, who doesn't run on their record???), then claim that supporters drove them to support HRC. Oh, and of course, keep up the long standing Bernie supporters are big ol' meanies the whole time as well. This did not start with the BLM incidents, it's been going on long before that.
And with that I leave you. There is absolutely no reason to attack Sanders on racial issues yet here on DU it is non-stop. Since there's no reason for the attacks, I am going to try to take the advice of a fellow Sanders supporter and not respond to them. I don't know if I'll be successful, clearly so far I'm not, but we'll see how it goes.