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In reply to the discussion: WillyT has been banned. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)hell there have been some exchanges I have witnessed, one that was particularly ugly on facebook, that if the participants were not African American you would call it racist. I just called it notes. Oh and some of the words in that essay from Common Dreams were used in that conversation. There were words and language that you would consider it ten times as bad. As I said, these became background for me.
The conversation has started. Whether you accept it or not, well, not my problem. It went into my background notes because I was tagged and was able to witness it. It reminded me of Occupy... and the division is truly between the young and the older leaders, as well as newer and older organizations.(That is very local, but I am willing to bet this is happening to different degrees nationally) And yes, at least one person in that conversation advocated voting for Donald Trump.
And like Occupy, some of these conversations are happening in places they should not... like Facebook. And they are rather public.
For the record, this is one reason I refuse to treat a community like a monolith... whether it is Latinos (it is divided by ethnic, class and national origin ten ways to Sunday), or African Americans, the division is along class lines, as well as region of the country, and life experience. And yes, the kids in the hood, who are over policed are the angriest, (and they should be), at both their community leaders, and the police. The we talk with one voice has gone the say of the dodo, and partly the same can be said about the Jewish community, or should I say communities?. I am familiar with all these three.
And the DNC is treating all these groups as interchangeable lego blocks, surprises are in the offing. For the record, so are whatever remains of the republican party, for different ideological reasons, mind you.
As I said, this is not about Willy, but a reality in the freaking of the internet real world.