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yardwork

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29. That's easy to say when we occupy privileged positions.

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:04 PM

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It's very easy to not care about race if we're white.

It's easy to say "I don't see color" when nobody is racially profiling us.

Very easy to say "I don't care about anybody's religion" if you don't belong to a religious tradition that is in the minority.

Be careful about insisting that nobody worry about race, religion or sex if you're, say, a white straight cis man raised in a Christian tradition. Walk a mile in the shoes of a Black trans Muslim woman and let me know what you think then.

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Democrats behaving stupidly. [View all] yardwork Yesterday OP

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Mahalo for this, yardwork... I'm so Cha Yesterday #3

Wow. That's some shit. CousinIT Yesterday #4

And so unnecessary. yardwork Yesterday #6

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It really did not! yardwork Yesterday #7

The mayor of NY ran a positive campaign on the issues MustLoveBeagles Yesterday #8

similar situation in texas senate. rampartd Yesterday #9

It sounds like anonymous dark money is going MadameButterfly 23 hrs ago #17

Damn right struggle4progress Yesterday #10

thx for breaking up into small paragraphs... WarGamer 23 hrs ago #11

I try. yardwork 23 hrs ago #12

Praise! Truth! QueerDuck 23 hrs ago #14

Damn. Susan Calvin 23 hrs ago #13

Disappointing this is going on BaronChocula 23 hrs ago #15

There's bad blood from the 2024 campaign. yardwork 23 hrs ago #18

Circular firing squad RetiredParatrooper 23 hrs ago #16

This time I blame outsiders. yardwork 23 hrs ago #19

"We know BETTER THAN YOU when it comes to how to 'do-politics' in your own back yard!" QueerDuck 5 hrs ago #23

The more I think about it the angrier I get. yardwork 3 hrs ago #28

well said! excellent post - great points - and plenty of homework and grist for the mill stopdiggin 23 hrs ago #20

Completely appropriate critique Cirsium 22 hrs ago #21

Thank you, yardwork, very well said. sheshe2 20 hrs ago #22

We shouldn't care about race, religion, or sex gulliver 4 hrs ago #24

That's easy to say when we occupy privileged positions. yardwork 3 hrs ago #29

Fixating on identity makes things worse... gulliver 2 hrs ago #30

I'm not talking about theory. yardwork 14 min ago #33

Going negative and then suing a fellow Democrat? That alone tells you how Nida Allam would govern. PeaceWave 4 hrs ago #25

A bad progressive is just that...a bad progressive. Hopefully they will not win. walkingman 4 hrs ago #26

Thank you for bringing this up. Vegan4life 4 hrs ago #27

I am also voting for Valerie unc70 2 hrs ago #31

I live and work in district 3 dsc 2 hrs ago #32