https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...mn/6386871002/
Interessant opiniestuk uit USA Today over hoe links in Amerika de aandachtspunten verschoof van economische thema's naar sociaal-raciale kwesties. Dit heeft Bernie Sanders een nominatie gekost. Tijdens een toespraak over sociale zekerheid werd hij minutenlang uitgejouwd door BLM-aanhangers die hem verweten louter met thema's bezig te zijn die duiden op blank superioriteitsdenken.
Jawel, kansarmoedebestrijding, sociale zekerheid en algemene ziekteverzekering hoog in het vaandel voeren is racistisch.
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This same sort of thing has derailed more than a few politicians running on a traditional class-based platform. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders consistently struggled to win over Black voters, to such an extent that Politico published several pieces about the problem. Sanders won only 14% of Black South Carolina voters to Hillary Clinton's 86% in 2016; he performed similarly in 2020, and was largely knocked out of the 2020 primary by African American giant Rep. James Clybourn’s professed support for Joe Biden.
An Occupy Wall Street protester holds a sign during a demonstration on September 17, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
A major reason for this, often said quite explicitly, was Sanders’ focus on economic rather than racial issues. In 2015, a Sanders speech praising the 80th anniversary of Social Security and the success of a hood-to-the-holler range of anti-poverty programs was literally shut down by Black Lives Matter activists who demanded four and a half minutes of silence in honor of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and claimed to be holding Sanders accountable for failure to support their movement.
When the progressive audience — made up of thousands of people, mostly whites, who had paid to attend the speech — booed, protesters castigated them for racism and accused them of "white supremacist liberalism."
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