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In reply to the discussion: "I had a Sarah Palin button on backpack" Who is BLMS's Marissa "Johnson" Jenae? [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)There are indications elements of BLM have called for an apology:
https://www.change.org/p/blm-activists-want-the-women-who-interrupted-bernie-sanders-to-apologize-to-him?recruiter=358375400
Moreover, though, who is BLM? Two people in my house have made signs and organized and attended events and fundraisers for Black Lives Matter -- can we disclaim Marissa Johnson?
We all saw the same thing with OWS. You'd be talking to a group of FDR Democrats, and over in the corner would be a group spray-painting a public building and grumbling about how "liberals and Dems" weren't sufficiently "hardcore" or whatever. They'd pee on a bank building to get arrested, then argue in court that the United States is secretly a bankrupt corporation with no authority over anyone. Pretty frustrating when the group hired them lawyers.
The question winds up being whether the bulk of people claiming solidarity with BLM see stalking and silencing Bernie Sanders as part of that group's aims or not. I don't think it's going to work out that way, because it doesn't make any damn sense. But extremists revel in chaos and getting everyone to fight with each other -- it's kind of their bag.
We shall see.