Un-Stirring the Pot
“Revolution is not always kind to the vulnerable people,” she writes. Futhermore:
Many marginalized people in red states depend on the Democratic Party in ways that privileged people in true blue states don’t need to. We don’t have the luxury of being contemptuous of the Democratic Party for not being as progressive as we might like them to be, because our basic rights are constantly under assault.
As others have pointed out, Hullabaloo alum David Atkins observes this morning that critiques originating with “predominantly white and male” writers and aimed at black and/or female Democrats is not a good look. Even if there are facts supporting the criticisms, they give oxygen to the intra-party gossip “that Sanders-aligned economic progressives have racist motivations–or at least that they are tone-deaf and poor allies on matters of identity and social justice.”
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