Originally posted by Adam_PoE
That is a distinction without a difference. If I say, "Silent Master is a racist," then I do not get to pretend what I mean is "not all people named Silent Master are racist." Your pathetic attempt to walk away from your own statements has failed.
If you knowingly support policies which harm people of color and disparately harms black people (extremely pronounced), and you do this for decades, this is racism. And as the SJWs like to state, institutionalized racism. And this racism is so fundamental to the Democratic Party that they have inculcated it into their party electorate. Democrats, by and large, actually view these policies as not racist at all despite the cascades of data that clearly show them as racist. It's worse than that. Far more sinister than that. The democratic electorate, by and large, actually view these racist policies as helpful. This cannot be blamed on the layman as they do not possess the time, education, or even interest to learn these facts about public policy. Indeed, that's the point of a representative democracy. And in an age where everyone's voice can be heard by far too many people, the voices of reason are often drowned out in the sea of uninformed voices. So we are stuck with what I consider a stagnation of policy instead of the policy renaissance we desperately need. Many reformationists have even boiled to the top but simply cannot grasp a strong enough foothold to make substantive change because the corporate and political establishment are not interested in losing both their power and money.
If you are part of a party who supports those policies as the basics of their platform, your party is fundamentally racist especially if people point out the science of the racism in the policies and you and your party ignore it. Obviously, to anyone who is not being an obstinate fool, there would be exceptions and variance within the party where some members do not support the racist policies and actually support policies that would work, based on the science.
Of course, even within the Democratic Party, there are tribalistic lines. Instead of confronting the larger problems that plague the Democratic Party, these partisan morons seek to ostracize the party members who do not fall instep with the dominant or populist political views (stagnating progress, of course). Hence the protracted abrasion Bernie has experienced from both the Democratic Party electorate and the Democratic Party incumbents.
So why did I write that all out for you? Because this is where you are. Instead of confronting the cognitive dissonance you're experiencing due to the obvious problems you're both educated and intelligent enough to realize, it becomes easier to fall into the tribalistic lines and levy attacks against Silent Master. Instead of confronting the cognitive strain you experience when the Democratic Party establishment acts and legislates within a set of ideas that are clearly harmful. Since we both know we will not get the much needed change from the GOP, we are stuck with the Democratic Party because the candidates and incumbents often echo the change that we know would be effective (regardless of them actually acting within the set of promises that resonate with our liberal and progressive views).
Unfortunately, attacking people like Silent Master because he correctly points out the endemic racism within the Democratic Platform, will not resolve the cognitive strain you must face and correctly process. "Knocking down" Silent Master is a hollow victory but the problem still exists whether or not you destroy the faux boogeymen you encounter in your political journey.