Do you think if HRC had just focused more on economic justice and not on social justice

[Ken Burch]

60. You've repeated the strawman that there's a widespread call for the party to stop fighting bigotry

in thread after thread.

It's been repeatedly pointed out to you that that isn't what the vast majority of people who have critiqued the fall campaign have been arguing.

I condemn anyone who does argue that we should talk less about bigotry-as do, I'd say, 95% of the people who supported the candidate I supported in the spring. Yet you continue to treat us, as a group, as though we are committed to making the party officially betray you.

What would it take to convince you that an abandonment of "social justice" by this party is simply not going to happen, and that people who were to your left on some things don't WANT it to happen?

My belief is that there is an overwhelming commitment, among people of the left, to fighting ALL forms of injustice-a belief that is informed by the conclusion, based on the post-1965 history of all the justice struggles in this country that we can't defeat social injustice without making some significant economic changes(and an equally strong conclusion that we can't achieve economic justice WITHOUT also eradicating social injustice in this society-that the justice struggles are distinct, but connected).

What would it take to get you to see that set of priorities as inclusive of you, rather than some sort of a threat?

What, exactly, do you need to hear in order to put the concerns you keep raising to rest? To get you to believe that people who support economic justice(many of whom ARE people of color, women, LGBTQ people and immigrants) are NOT indifferent to the need to fight bigotry?

I would truly like to get to a place of dialog with you, to show you that you have no reason to distrust myself and others who share my views.

We're not talking about the primaries here, or about any particular candidate or candidates...I'm trying to have a discussion about the future. And I mourn what happened on Election Day as deeply as you do.