If you think HRC focused on social justice more than economic justice

[Ken Burch]

66. Concerns can be raised without accusing people of planning to betray or exclude you.

It's perfectly natural to have trust issues, but the vast majority of people who are calling for a slight change in emphasis don't want anything we are currently fighting for to be set to the side.

Where individuals call for less emphasis on fighting oppression, those individuals should be called out. I join you in doing so.

Where people honestly DON'T want that, try dialog. You could try working with them on how they might phrase things so as to allay your concerns.

We are all trying to get to a more progressive, inclusive, socially and economically democratic future here.

Sometimes, things could be communicated better, but nobody on this sight has actually been calling for the creation of a sexist, white-supremacist, homophobic program for this party or for the progressive spectrum in this country.

The biggest change I've seen advocated is to break from negotiating more of the type of trade deals we've had proposed for the last few years, like NAFTA in the Nineties and TPP recently. I'm honestly not sure how that would have any bad effect on historically oppressed groups in this country. Do you feel that it would?

And even Bernie's now-infamous speech(a speech I would have either totally rewritten or advised him NOT to give) was not meant to be a call to back down on the anti-oppression agenda. It was actually just a critique of the idea that having a visually diverse group of people in the Cabinet was, in itself, transformative(not that we shouldn't have a Cabinet or a Congress that actually looks like the country-obviously we should). His point, as I see it anyway, was that that sort of "diversity" didn't mean quite so much if that collection of people largely shared an elitist, corporate-establishment view of life. True diversity would mean including people with personal experience with poverty, unemployment, homelessness, powerlessness-people who have a true sense of life on the street, in addition to the people who will always end up being part of the power structure who, no matter what they look like, know little but life in the suites.

Do you actually disagree with that, seeing it phrased in that way?