2016 Postmortem
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(24,544 posts)type of hateful idiocy for months now. Which is why an endless sea of progressive groups, movements and figures has called these people out more times than anyone can count.
But it's everybody in the entire world's fault that more poc aren't supporting their candidate and their rage that we aren't "doing as we're told" is what's lead to the type of lashing out that we're seeing in this OP, on Twitter, on John Lewis' Facebook page, on Black Lives Matter's Facebook page and everywhere black people dare to tread. The decision to lash out at gays is a bit more recent but we all know that bigotry doesn't live in a bubble. If someone has problems with black folks, they usually have problems with gays, women and other minorities as well.
So I sincerely hope that everyone remembers this the next time some puffed up, out of control Sanders supporter tries to blame the enmity between his campaign and minority communities on the minorities. I've seen so many incredibly stupid people here blame the rift on the AA forum and black people in general, accusing us of "driving a wedge" because we spoke up about this crap first as well as as loudly and often. I've always been damn glad that we did and seeing this kind of crap does nothing but cement that.
And yes, CaliDem's hide was complete and total bullshit. But again, I hope that no one is surprised. This is the nature of this place now and has been for a while.
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