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In reply to the discussion: Ta-Nehisi Coates Deletes Twitter Account Amid Cornel West Feud: 'Peace, Y'all. I'm Out' [View all]DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)3. I stand with Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Deletes Twitter Account Amid Cornel West Feud: 'Peace, Y'all. I'm Out' [View all]
DonViejo
Dec 2017
OP
I stand with everything except his lumping feminists with white supremacists.
MrsCoffee
Dec 2017
#18
I stand with Coates, too. I've actively defended West in the past, but not this time.
ancianita
Dec 2017
#90
Trust me we have been looking for his mind for years now, but it is definitely lost.
grantcart
Dec 2017
#26
I'll give you ten dollars and some peanut brittle if you give examples of how Dems are neoliberal.
betsuni
Dec 2017
#87
I've noticed that quite often, it's those pretending to have the answer who never allow us objective
LanternWaste
Dec 2017
#110
Dunno, criticism of Bernie or Buster stuff doesn't freak me out. Bernie primary supporter here.
emulatorloo
Dec 2017
#65
Here in NY, our local Democratic Women's Caucus helped flip our red county blue.
lapucelle
Dec 2017
#95
an article that guves west his due, but shows why he is so f***ing wrong here
DonCoquixote
Dec 2017
#10
That's not the fault of the site owners. It was obnoxious out of control members
emulatorloo
Dec 2017
#32
That's what I thought too. I don't see a lot of activity on the part of the owners/admins...
Caliman73
Dec 2017
#37
Really? Can you name the obnoxious and out of control AA and/or female voices
VermontKevin
Dec 2017
#39
Yes. Thank you for pointing out that in 17 years, the control hasn't changed.
VermontKevin
Dec 2017
#41
Ahem. Thank you for arriving 6 months ago from Vermont to school us on diversity...
Hekate
Dec 2017
#45
What does this post mean? Did some of the people here "target" this poster and
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2017
#100
Yeah, I guess so. I just want to talk to people who support Democrats, is all.
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2017
#121
Really? And how did you reach this understanding? Which site is your other home?
Hekate
Dec 2017
#50
Except, Alabama. Virginia. 2016. Maybe the plain old massive white vote, as you say,
VermontKevin
Dec 2017
#42
I have a liberal response to that about racism but I cant say it here.
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2017
#109
Cornell West used to be an accomplished and interesting, albeit derivative, academic philosopher...
blitzen
Dec 2017
#34
Same here. He lives in the LaLa land of big White, higher education and looks down his nose
Yavin4
Dec 2017
#55
I do not get these twitter feuds. It seems like middle school name-calling drama to me.
Tipperary
Dec 2017
#102