If people aren’t very political and don’t internalize the process then optics matters a lot
This is just obviously true. You can do things and it not matter. Dems already have people viewing them a certain way right now, you’re setting off the wrong signals by doing this
The context is that this is an internal DNC meeting full of DNC leadership and Dem leadership.
"give up your morals and convictions, or at least shut up about them" sure is a take, but I'd ask you to redirect it towards your fellow progressives instead.
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This is just obviously true. You can do things and it not matter. Dems already have people viewing them a certain way right now, you’re setting off the wrong signals by doing this
This same statement is less costly in a different political environment. What’s being is argued is you need to.. get back to that environment
How about a “we can believe in and acknowledge how racism etc. plays a role in socio-economic outcomes without sounding obnoxious to people”
Would be a good start IMO, idk, maybe too risky
"give up your morals and convictions, or at least shut up about them" sure is a take, but I'd ask you to redirect it towards your fellow progressives instead.
What in the fuck?
It’s a *signal*, and someone is critiquing it off of what it *implies* as well as what it is