2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dear white progressives: Stop telling black people how to vote [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)Like neither Bernie or Hillary are earning our vote - the system is so bad it has to be destroyed, none of the parties deserve our vote. And yet that vote is not supposed to be monolithic. (though it kind of is, in that black people as a whole reliably do not vote Republican - a very low percentage does, or does not vote Dem.)
Oddly reminiscent of the very same progressives - both parties are alike and so bad that we should stay home and withhold our vote to punish them. But then the system goes on. And it's still bad. Or worse than it would have been with more Dems in power.
Some broad generalizations that white liberals want to retain their privilege. Admitting they don't want to be racist and even understanding white privilege but trying to preserve it. Who says? The writer allows herself to make generalizations about how people think based on their skin color while at the same time claiming that no one should do that.