2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie's crowd in Portland, ME ... [View all]BainsBane
(53,154 posts)No one but those trying to deny legitimate concerns. The OP doesn't try to speak for an entire population. He speaks for himself, and he is one of very few AAs on this website. That is not an accident. There used to be more who left due to the sort of hostility we see directed at the OP.
My post critiques your view of politics, that you define progressives as white and that you express great hostility to the views of the OP. You don't address any of that but simply engage in attacks. It is not laziness to critique an obvious bias and clear contradictions in your analysis. The view that discussing race is divisive is one that works to perpetuate racism; it is not a view shared by the Democratic party, which explicitly seeks to appeal to key constituencies, which in combination make up the majority of this nation. Middle-class white men see their privilege slipping away, and they invent all kinds of ideological justification to defend it. Your political worldview is willfully narrow. That's fine, but you won't be winning any converts that way, though it's clear to me few even care about that.
I have noticed a lot of discussing politics in terms of labels, progressive and liberal to mean their in-crowd. What I don't see is anything promoting values or policies I would consider progressive. I instead see hostility to dissent; holding a politician above the citizens he seeks to represent; efforts to silence the few people of color that are on a site that purports to be Democrat; and hostility toward the subaltern. We are witnessing what Chris Hayes has referred to as the revolt of the white upper-middle class, which is starting to feel a bit of what it's like to live in America, and they don't like it. I might have a little sympathy if they weren't so openly contemptuous of the rest of us who have always been on the bottom.