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Jim Lane

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16. Excuse me, are we reading the same board?

Sun Oct 1, 2017, 09:27 PM

Oct 2017

I've seen post after post after post waxing indignant about that comment. A careful study might reveal that that one line has been responded to more often than everything else that Will Pitt posted, combined.

What I gather from this OP is that, whenever there is any disagreement with a statement by a black woman, the criticism arises solely because of gender and race. It is apparently not conceivable to some that such criticism might be, as it is in other instances, content-based.

That is a simplification to which I do not subscribe.

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Re: Bravenak, look how upset some folks get when a strong black woman has an opinion [View all] stevenleser Oct 2017 OP

K&R stonecutter357 Oct 2017 #1

Yes shenmue Oct 2017 #2

That woman has an amazingly sharp mind. greatauntoftriplets Oct 2017 #3

They have no problem when a white man calls the President a POSUCS. sheshe2 Oct 2017 #4

Excuse me, are we reading the same board? Jim Lane Oct 2017 #16

It is the double standard. sheshe2 Oct 2017 #17

uhm. JHan Oct 2017 #23

nope, many of those who attack Bravenak are those who defended Pitt and went to the site JI7 Oct 2017 #25

That is an accurate statement J17 still_one Oct 2017 #28

I don't know about same board nonsense JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #38

Thank you, that clarifies matters. Jim Lane Oct 2017 #50

Is that what you gather, Jim? Really? Then your gathering skills need work. Squinch Oct 2017 #55

I love Bravenak! radical noodle Oct 2017 #5

Right, some right here on DU are attacking her instead of Sarandon whe help us get trump brush Oct 2017 #6

I think that was to be expected here. Sarandon has a fan club here. leftofcool Oct 2017 #7

Well, I'm not in it! WhiteTara Oct 2017 #8

really? I don't follow the intramurals very carefully. grantcart Oct 2017 #11

More's The Pity Me. Oct 2017 #14

Many JPR zombies in those threads. And you know how they looooooove her. Squinch Oct 2017 #54

One has been outed most spectacularly. Read this comment stevenleser Oct 2017 #57

Wow. They walk among us. That is really sad. Squinch Oct 2017 #58

K&R brer cat Oct 2017 #9

It would be a mistake to think that everyone knows her gender or skin color. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #10

Same here, didn't know gender/color. Also I don't even know what this thread's about. thesquanderer Oct 2017 #12

Did you not read the OP? It says she's a strong black woman. George II Oct 2017 #15

Exactly. I read the OP and found out her skin color. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #35

Hard to believe that someone who has been here for even 9 years before she registered.... George II Oct 2017 #42

She has been a member of the AA Group for for years. sheshe2 Oct 2017 #18

Posts in the AA group rarely get so many recs that they appear on the Home Page. My fault. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #36

that's because JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #39

Her picture was on her Twitter profile JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #30

she had her kid's pic on DU in her sig also. it's BS to claim people didn't know JI7 Oct 2017 #31

No arguments from me JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #32

It would be a mistake to assume a kid's skin color is the same as the parent's. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #40

What she wrote was very much about being a black woman JI7 Oct 2017 #46

I am on DU, not Twitter. Congratulations, you are so knowledgeable & proved me incompetent :eyes: Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #34

No I didn't JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #37

"above it all"? When I wrote "the general point has merit" what did you not understand? (post #10) Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #41

Please leave JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #43

Your narrative seems irrelevant... at best. LanternWaste Oct 2017 #45

The ones who replied to her tweet about Sarandon with disgusting racist remarks Squinch Oct 2017 #56

K & R SunSeeker Oct 2017 #13

K&R Gothmog Oct 2017 #19

Yep. Susan Calvin Oct 2017 #20

Sadly, this has always been the case. Even more sad is that we haven't come as far as we thought. Tarheel_Dem Oct 2017 #21

K&R murielm99 Oct 2017 #22

Brave is one of the best people I've ever been privileged to know. raven mad Oct 2017 #24

they react the same way as Trump does when a POC or women criticizes him in any way JI7 Oct 2017 #26

K&R. lunamagica Oct 2017 #27

The reactions to posts about Bravenak murielm99 Oct 2017 #29

Very telling indeed. MrScorpio Oct 2017 #33

It should be a time for what I call self reflection for we, who are white People ismnotwasm Oct 2017 #44

It is rather remarkable what we can learn when we listen to those who Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #47

k and r for our Bravenak niyad Oct 2017 #48

Very revealing, as well, I thought. MineralMan Oct 2017 #49

You recognized the people who stalked her and get her gone? Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #51

You are awesome Bravenak! Evergreen Emerald Oct 2017 #52

Many of those same folk have made variations on the comment, "Fuck you, Donald," but when Squinch Oct 2017 #53