re: #183 blueraven

Fuck them, they do not represent me. I don’t believe they speak for most of the women who resist Trump and his bigoted, ignorant agenda.

They don’t want to denounce Farrakhan? They don’t want to include Hillary as a woman to be celebrated? Maybe because they are Sandernistas…I don’t know, don’t care. They aren’t qualified to decide who our heroes should or shouldn’t be. And they aren’t fit to shine Hillary’s sensible shoes. Let them walk a few hundred miles in them first.

They do seem to be suffering from “mission creep.” As I originally understood the first women’s march, it was simply about not allowing the new conservative cruelty to roll over gains women have made in establishing their rightful equal place in society and control over their own lives.

Now all of a sudden it appears they are adding stuff that piles on and obscures that original simple message of “We will not be silenced and our rights will be respected.”

The defense of Louis Farrakhan seems bizarre to me. He’s long been an anti-Semite (his denials in the last couple days notwithstanding). Any support for the Women’s March I had is rapidly evaporating. (That is not to say I am now opposed to the original goals, I most certainly support them. People like Mr. Farrakhan are not the people to convey that message.)