Nobody should be using BLM to score some cheap political points

[rbrnmw]

Last edited Thu Feb 25, 2016, 05:47 PM - Edit history (3)

Some of the same people who post "questions" to PoC about this and that are now trying to play a game, and using BLM to do it. They really should stop it's an insult when you never talk about BLM except when thinking it's a way to get your candidate elected. BLM ascends politics and it's more important than any fucking politician so back the fuck up and quit playing games.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. There are ten threads about this

LiberalStalwart is doing her best with the assery running it's course but seriously?

I

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

22. I can't. I just fucking can't. My head hurts and I need some Jack and Coke right about now.

[rbrnmw]

42. It's fucking nauseating

so paternizing

[thereismore]

2. "Back the fuck up" is a prima facie way to use BLM to stop others from asking questions.

I hope you do understand how ironic that is.

[rbrnmw]

4. ok fine I will just say stop using BLM for games to those who are doing it.

[thereismore]

7. NO, you really don't know what irony is. nt

[rbrnmw]

10. I'm sorry

if I offended you I'm sorry I was talking about posters who this summer were calling BLM all sorts of names

[emulatorloo]

3. The hypocrisy is astounding.

Wasn't that long ago that some posters here were spewing vitriol and pushing conspiracies theories about BLM.

[rbrnmw]

6. they sure were

black lives aren't political chess pieces

[peacebird]

5. It appears you are upset that we are posting about Hillary dissing BLM when confronted in SC

Is that correct? Hillary came off very badly in the video of that encounter. Any particular reason we should not post about it? BLM wants coverage and wants the conversation to happen.

[MrWendel]

8. It seems that...

you forgot about this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251502334

[JustAnotherGen]

21. Whoa n/t

[peacebird]

27. No, I haven't. We were wrong to get upset when Bernie was targetted. Having spent time actually

listening to BLM activists I realized that a long time ago. I am a firm supporter of BLM and I believe their tactics have advanced the discussion immensely. For this i am very grateful to them for their courage and hard work.
I had foolishly celebrated that we were finally growing up about race issues when Obama was elected. I was so wrong.

[Tarheel_Dem]

32. You "evolved"? Cuz you initially stated emphatically that "Soros money funds BLM & Hillary".

Glad to see you've become so much more enlightened.

[peacebird]

34. As I stated, I was upset they targetted Bernie. Then I started really listening & changed my mind.

So sweet of you to sneer.

[Tarheel_Dem]

40. Not sneering at all. Just happy to see your amazing turnaround.

[Cha]

59. Yeah, really.. amazing. And, that wasn't enough.. she had to accuse you of "sneering" just to

show you how much she's "evolved".

Tarheel

[Tarheel_Dem]

60. Perhaps the evolution isn't as complete as we had hoped.

[Cha]

61. Perhaps not.

[Number23]

62. So much "evolution" and I'm sure it's just a coincidence that these good folks "evolved" only after

BLM started going after Clinton.

[Tarheel_Dem]

67. Sssshhhh! We're supposed to think it's all "organic" outrage. You're gonna give the game away.

[Bobbie Jo]

56. And this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251505656

And this
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027060303

And this
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251506368

And this
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251503212

And especially this
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128027165

Just take a look at the comments in these threads. These are the SAME people who have developed a sudden appreciation for BLM.

Just damn...

[Number23]

63. And I swear they must think they typed all of their snarling hatred in invisible ink and that now

no one can see it.

Hint: We can still see it, folks!

[emulatorloo]

11. You forgot about this one too. And fwiw, you rec'd it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251505656

[peacebird]

28. See my reply 27 above

[emulatorloo]

37. Fair enough n/t

[rbrnmw]

12. Nope not upset about Hillary

I don't think it was handled well.

[randys1]

13. I forget how the video ends, did Hillary ONLY say "You are the first to ask me"

If so, while poorly handled, far from a big deal.

This is not about Hillary or Bernie or BLM, it is about the same group of people using a group when it fits them, and not when it doesnt and always doing so in the process of whitesplaining.

[rbrnmw]

14. yes she did say that

[randys1]

15. Is that the controversy? She wasnt rude or dismissive?

Hey, I think Hillary and Bill have been on the wrong side of the race issue many times, but that was then, this is now and we go with what we have, and if that turns out to be Hillary, fine.

[PaulaFarrell]

52. she was kind of rude and dismissive nt

[JustAnotherGen]

18. What if it was Rovian tactic

To get the media to talk about it so she can contrast 20 years ago versus today?

Hmmmm . . .

[randys1]

24. Frankly, anything that gets us talking BLM, is important and ultimately cant hurt

a candidate unless they act like an ass.

From the first day Bernie was confronted till now, both have handled this as well as you would (not could) expect two privileged white people to do.

Both handling it way better than any con would because both actually dont hate POC, but as privilege white folks, there is a limited reaction based in knowledge they can have.

I just like it ANYTIME the BLACK LIVES MATTER name is mentioned.

[rbrnmw]

26. I agree but when posters are playing games with that name

I am going to call them on it. They don't give a damn about BLM they care about scoring points

[randys1]

30. Oh, I didnt mean what you were addressing, I agree with you completely on that.

From DAY ONE of the BLM movement and talk of it here, it is clear that a certain group of people dont like them when they are inconvenient but do like them when they are convenient.

Nothing new, white privilege does that.

[JustAnotherGen]

17. Here's one comment from the thread linked

All across social media tonight Hillary is getting the blame. If I were her I would stop the dirty

tricks now. Even if she isn't the one doing it she is the one who is getting the blame. It is going to be a bit like the Rs on her emails and Benghazi. In her case she is going to get the blame true or not.

She should be so busy watching Bernie's back to keep him safe that she won't have time for dirty tricks.

Maybe the Clinton campaign put her up to it?
Maybe it's a Rovian tactic?
Maybe the Clinton campaign saw how it worked for Bernie with white supporters?

I know - plot twist huh?

All I'm doing is throwing out the same theories thrown around last summer - but if they were true then . . .

[rbrnmw]

19. right! odd isn't it?

[JI7]

35. i can't even figure out what that post is saying

[mcar]

49. WTF does that even mean?

I've been getting very confused reading DU lately.

[William769]

16. Kick & very highly recommended!

[JustAnotherGen]

23. A kick and a rec from you

Is an honor sir!

[William769]

31. I have such great admiration for the members of this Group.

I consider it an honor to just be able to post in this Group.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

20. This is the point I was trying to make over and over again in those threads. I can't.

Those people are SLOW!!! I can't deal with people who are being deliberately obtuse.

[rbrnmw]

25. I noticed that they are just proving that it's a game to them

[Coolest Ranger]

29. I know one thing

I am tired of having my color and my heritage questioned by people who don't give ten craps about me.

[Tarheel_Dem]

33. ^^^ THIS ^^^ n/t

[Enrique]

53. "Latin America is but a cyst on the anus of the world"

you said that

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3173564

[Tarheel_Dem]

54. Yup. But I didn't say Latin American "people", did I? If I'm not mistaken that conversation was....

about the leadership & governance. Corrupt to the core.

[Number23]

65. What in God's green earth does that old as hell post have to do with this thread?

If you can't stay on topic, then please just see yourself out of the thread. That was absolutely ridiculous.

[Digital Puppy]

36. +1000!!!

[MrWendel]

38. I just experienced that today in the GD thread...

another "Stockholm Syndrome" thread (ACTUAL TITLE) started up safely tucked away in the Bernie group.

[rbrnmw]

50. another one damn

[giftedgirl77]

39. Yep, being treated like a chess piece is fuckin obnoxious.

I remember when Pharrell endorsed HRC, there were ton's of threads about what a sellout he was & that it was only bc he was rich. But low & behold Killer Mike (whom I guarantee none of them had ever heard from) throws out an endorsement & he's the greatest person to walk the face of the earth. Like black ppl just blindly follow anyone because their skin tone is similar.

[rbrnmw]

43. right? and all black folks know every black famous person ever

if they could just try to understand how ignorant that is

[giftedgirl77]

47. & are blind followers or just don't understand these complex

political races.

[rbrnmw]

48. on and on and on

[Coolest Ranger]

44. What's so bad is

I never heard of Killer Mike until the media went nuts over him

[giftedgirl77]

45. Lol, I had heard of him but never really got into his style.

I'm a huge rap & hiphop fan. But he's black & likes Bernie so every black person must know him & immediately change their mind.

[Number23]

64. +a million

[lunamagica]

41. K&R.

[mcar]

46. K&R

[ismnotwasm]

51. K&R

[Quayblue]

55. interesting to me

And angers me as well, how it took this primary season, in two thousand and motherfucking sixteen, for people to acknowledge privilege and racism.

When BLM was getting in folks' faces over the summertime, people were up in arms, calling them all types of nasty names. Subhuman...operatives...

Now, almost two seasons have gone by and people have righteously aligned themselves because Hillary got checked. The agenda is clear as a window wiped with vinegar and newspaper.

No one here is fooled.

[rbrnmw]

57. and there have been about 10 more threads since I posted this

[Number23]

66. The poster who called BLM "subhuman" has made it his personal mission to chase after every black

poster on DU. Every last fucking one of us, in between his MULTIPLE time outs.

I'm sure that it's just a coincidence that someone who called a black activist "subhuman" would have a problem with black DUers. Yeah. Coincidence.

[Chitown Kev]

58. Hmph........WEEEEEEELL

k&r