BLMS activist who shut down Sanders rally inspired by COUNTERPUNCH

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BLMS activist Mara Jaqueline Willaford quoted this Counterpunch article as her inspiration on her Facebook page. Counterpunch has been exposed as a RW website that uses a few lefty authors to present a progressive facade.

From http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/07/why-presidential-elections-are-detrimental-to-movement-building/
Willaford's selected quote:

"If Sanders endorsed reparations for African-Americans or admitted white supremacy exists, his rivals would demolish him. This creates an unresolvable conflict. The more activists push Sanders to acknowledge legitimate demands, the more defensive his supporters may become, hardening the divide. "

It seems the BLM activist is actually admitting she wants to harden the divide.

Check out this quote from the article:

This is part of a pattern with Sanders of skirting discussions of state violence against non-white communities and nations—or endorsing that violence.

Sanders endorses state violence against non-whites? The author thinks so because Sanders made this damning statement: “We must be vigorous in combatting terrorism and defeating ISIS.”

Yes, folks, these are people who think that supporting the fight against ISIS means you support state violence against non-whites. And the BLMS activist Mara Jaqueline Willaford apparently believes Sanders is therefore the enemy in the effort to expose police brutality against the African American community.

(The article's author, Arun Gupta, is a "co-founder of The Indypendent and the Occupied Wall Street Journal. He is writing a book on the decline of America empire.&quot

For some time I've been posting about the dangers of this deranged branch of what I call the Orthodox Left, the ones who think being progressive equals being "anti-imperialist" which means supporting Putin, Gaddafi and any other RW dictator that opposes the US. I hate to say I told you so, but it seems that these headcases are now threatening both the Sanders campaign and, by undermining the BLM movement, the fight against racist police brutality in America.

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1. Wrong forum. Creative speculation is a subset of "Offbeat" nt

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2. First they came for CounterPunch and I said nothing...

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3. Interesting

Had she quoted the Constitution, should we toss it out? The Bible? The Torah? The Harry Potter books?

Your logic is sound, which exposes the fundamental flaw of logic: garbage in, garbage out.