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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders and the Peter Principle [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)The reason being that we are a minority population and quite outnumbered in voices and bodies and power. Those that seek to magnify the voices of the ignored or marginalized are those who have my support, those who seek to shut down the voices of the distressed, call them Divisive, harass or marginalize them are not those who should be supported. Perhaps if rather than attacking en masse any and all who 'are wrong on bernie's record' supporters decided to weed out or call to the carpet the imposters and caustic individuals among their own ranks, others would notice and commend them for doing the right thing.
In this cycle there has been no issue of harassment to African americans from among the Hillary Clinton circles. In the now the accusations are towards those of the other candidate's supporters and has been documented and written about extensively. That is ignored in favor of repeating memes from 2008 or bringing up Hillary's previous campaign. We are dealing with a case of the grass roots pointing out the mote in Her eye while ignoring the beam in their own.