2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBlack Lives Matter and Bernie or Bust Clash Outside the DNC Convention
When a Black Lives Matter march arrived, tensions rose as they refused to unite the two protests. This message is not gonna get drowned out. I will not allow it one BLM protestor said, as he argued that the Bernie or Bust crowd only wanted to protest together to make their own movement look larger than it was, not to address racial injustice.
A group of Sanders supporters attempted to ease tensions with we are in this together chants that clashed with hell no DNC we wont vote for Hillary screams.
This is why we cant do anything a Sanders supporter said of BLMs attempts to keep the two protests separate.
A BLM activist replied that he had joined the Bernie or Bust movement before, but that their this is what democracy looks like motto did not represent his demands as a black man. Ive been shot in the street. You wanna talk about that? he asked the Berner.
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Good for them for not letting those privileged little shits coopt them.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Not a good look for BoBs.
rjsquirrel
(4,762 posts)As we saw on night 1.
Quayblue
(1,045 posts)flamingdem
(39,342 posts)and missing Obamas speech
bravenak
(34,648 posts)RonniePudding
(889 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)zz-la
(224 posts)Everyday that goes by they make themselves look worse and worse. This needs to stop. So ridiculous.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)zz-la
(224 posts)That is the mindset of a child.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)They look stupid
runaway hero
(835 posts)Everyone stop fighting already.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)and was happy to see her finally get fired before she tanked yet another election, let me be clear..
YOU BoB types are bastards who do not even CARE that Bernie wanted to take the high road and help keep TRUMP out! You got very angry when race was mentioned, showing that you had no serious desire to talk to people and instead wanted to keep your privileged right to yell at them!
B O B
go
to HELL
and take Jill Stein with you!
Because I know that you will look at my Puerto Rican skin completion and know that you will enjoy advantages over me. You want to fight the power?, than stop thinking that this is some pulp fiction like Tarzan were naturally the natives will follow the white person leader. Gandhi said "how very unlike your Christ you Christians are."
How very unlike Bernie you BoB are. Yes I am happy to see DWS get cleaned out, but rest assured, there is a faction of the far left that does not give a damned if the GOP wins the white house forever that also needs to get washed out!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Bobs are so out of touch plus they will fair well enough in a trump America and don't give a fuck about others
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)JI7
(89,290 posts)numbers but the minorities are expected to "stay in their place" .
bravenak
(34,648 posts)rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)it's about authority
bravenak
(34,648 posts)TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...not surprisingly, BLM is not eager to join with the Bernie or Busters. BLMers definitely do not want Trump to win. They just want Hillary to remember their cause, which I can respect.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I bet they start storming the Nordstroms and burning down the Starbucks, lol
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,072 posts)It ain't some bunch of kale chomping hipsters.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)MellowDem
(5,018 posts)Lest you sound too much like FR. I find them obnoxious too, but I think the vast majority of "kale chomping hipsters" aren't them.
Blue Idaho
(5,072 posts)Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)of those white privilege insulated todgers
they can sod the fuck off
MellowDem
(5,018 posts)it's just an ugly stereotype descriptor, the exact type that is seen on right wing sites all the time.
Lots of people fit stereotypes, but using those stereotypes to attack people is always wrong, and exactly what the right does all day every day. I've seen people attacking millennials as a group and using the exact same stereotypes that the right wing uses every day to attack a whole group of people.
I can't believe this has to be spelled out... guess people are just that angry that they have to let their inner bigotry come out.
These protesters are obnoxious to me, and definitely come across as naive and privileged, but I don't see what calling them "kale chomping hipsters" has to do with that.
The "kale chomping hipsters" will be among the most consistent supporters of the Democratic Party in the coming election from what I can see.
Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)will morph into
Couple months back we flew to New York on business for my creative firm (I live in London) and some friends of ours took us out pub hopping in Brooklyn, and in both Night of Joy and duckduck we saw more than a smattering of Trump shirts and especially those fucking "Make America Great Again" hats. The prats who wore them will claim "irony" I am sure, but when they pull a lever in the booth to vote (I doubt most will even bother) I bet the irony leaves and they "white priviledge up" for Trump.
And trust me, those Bernie Bros on the cam tonight trying to go all argy bargy deffo had kale juice on the breath.
MellowDem
(5,018 posts)When it comes to referring to young white guys with stereotypes, "hipsters" are seen as insufferably liberal and "bros" as frat guy conservative assholes, so not sure what a "kale chomping hipster bro" is, maybe it's because you're in London, but your anecdote of a bar crawl sounded more like the "bro" stereotype.
But all the polling I've seen shows Trump doing no better among young whites, if not worse, than Romney in 2012, including young white guys, and white guys are his strongest demographic. I don't think they'll be much of a shift from 2012, and if there is, it looks like it would be against Trump.
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tblue37
(65,556 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,072 posts)Is that better?
MADem
(135,425 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,072 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Nothing would surprise me at this point.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)when bernie just used his superdelegate vote to make Hillary Clinton the Democratic Party nominee
in any case, fuck these people. They'll be safe Republican voters in 20 years.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Just as I disagre with jpr using a dear departed member of this site's name. Rude
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)I spent some time one day going back and reading his posts. He didn't seem to me like the freeperville-light that stole his handle. Yet it is not surprising that it was done by them either.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)Bernie Bros are spoilt frat boys who happened to start dating a hippie over 2015 summer vacay
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)brer cat
(24,673 posts)This message is not gonna get drowned out. I will not allow it Yes!!! Those privileged babies need to go drown their sorrows at the nearest Starbucks while those in the know show how democracy works.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)JRLeft
(7,010 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)JRLeft
(7,010 posts)pressure from the outside.
Cha
(298,139 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Looking to serve their own self-interests better than BLM protesters.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)R B Garr
(17,022 posts)movement look larger. This is shameful.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,030 posts)BLM were the FIRST to go under that bus
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)last to be hired, first to be fired
not a damn thing has changed on so many fronts
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Gothmog
(146,035 posts)The secret service agent on the bus wpild not tell us why. This slternative route was strsnge. I suspect the protests played a role
NikkiTaMere
(31 posts)Booker by chanting "Black Lives Matter"
star16
(16 posts)Are all these BLM Bernie supporters or RNC in hiding?
Tarheel_Dem
(31,258 posts)was helping to create the illusion of black support for the so called "revolution". The BOB'ers will be fine no matter who's in the White House. BLM knows that things can get a lot worse in Trump's vision for America.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)are making the statements now. Enough of us need to tell it like we know it will be . BLM ABSOLUTELY did the right thing .
Tarheel_Dem
(31,258 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)screamed like bloody murder when BLM protested in Seattle?
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)One of my first thoughts
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,089 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,089 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)door. Wasn't sure if it was a long time poster.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,089 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)dickhead. Way to go proving you're the "master race".
Maru Kitteh
(28,350 posts)Everything is about them and their selfish little feeeeeeeelings.