Questioning if a majority of AA voters are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome....

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135. Social justice issues are poisoned on DU

Precisely because of the selectivity you point out.

Unfortunately, DU has a long history of social justice only counting if it A) promotes a favored politician or B) can be used to bludgeon other DUers the poster(s) don't like. BLM is a huge case in point. Note the recent threads about Sanders talking with Sandra Bland's mother. You could conduct an orchestra with the legion of crickets that ensued. Similar, as you note, with a pro-Clinton poster declaring that she "owned" the African American community. I would've thought that would've had poster's heads exploding all over the damn place. Nope. They perceive the poster who made that vile OP as "on their board side" so they had zero to say about it.

If people who claim to care about these issues and who get their jimmies up at a fundraising letter can't even muster up even a weak, "Hey, not ok," how much am I supposed to believe they actually care about the issue? I'm sure they do care, but just not as much as they claim, and certainly not as universally as one would expect. Everything that comes out of their mouths needs to be delivered with a dump truck of sodium chloride.

Notice what's happening with this OP in question. You have LGBT Sanders supporters calling foul left and right on a pro-Sanders post because it is wrong.

Part of the genesis here is that much of it predates the primary. A lot of "social justice is all that matters" claimants have a long history here of just kind of disliking DU's liberal wing. Partly because of the attacks on Obama, partly because they themselves aren't all that liberal outside of their personally affecting issues, and partly because they treat the Democratic Party as their "blue team" in a fantasy sports league of political nonsense. Every liberal subgroup gets their turn. Whether it's liberals, LGBTers, people of color who think the "wrong" way. No one is spared.

So now, we have posters who didn't like many of the posters who support Sanders to begin with, start making all these claims about how, they just can't like Sanders because of his suppppporters. Which is nonsense. They just want to gripe about the same DUers they've been griping about for damn near a decade.

It's as transparent as it is pointless, and it makes discussing social justice nigh on impossible, because too many people aren't approaching the subject on a fair plane. It's always, "Does this issue allow me to go after the people it is my personal hobby to go after?" If the answer is yes, fire away. If the answer is no, pretend you didn't see the thread.

It's hilarious to watch the trifling shit that devolves into inchoate rage while far weightier issues are left alone because it doesn't suit their board agenda that particular day.

But, you know, social justice and shit. Or whatever. They've got Twitter to read. You know, important work.