Shame on anyone who pays any attention to right-wing agents provocateurs. Who engages in this provocation? College Republicans, local police, White Hate Groups, Highway Patrol, Sheriff’s Department, local Republican clubs, the FBI and the CIA.
I specifically call out Phoenix Woman’s diary today claiming that "Bernie supporters” were shouting “English only” at Dolores Huerta when she was translating Hillary’s speech. There is NO evidence that any of these people were Bernie supporters. As a matter of fact, it is EXTREMELY UNLIKELY that ANY Bernie supporter would do anything like that. Bernie supporters are represented by people from all over the earth. We speak more than one language. We work in organizations that help immigrants integrate into our society while retaining their cultural heritage. None of us would ever do what they claim.
(UPDATE: Snopes says NOPES. They state the claim is FALSE. The English Only shouting actually never occurred. There is no video or other neutral corroboration of the claim.)
I have been both a field activist and a scholar studying right wing movements in this country. I have seen the police viciously attack people who were LEAVING a concert with rubber bullets and steel-mesh bags filled with BBs. I have seen people run off the road because they had a PEACE SIGN in their back window. I saw a thousand dirty tricks by College Republicans and Federalist Societies all over the nation.
I have written REAMS about these people and so have others.
OF COURSE they are going to show up and behave badly to discredit Bernie supporters.
Someone who was in Las Vegas should be able to tell us who these people are.
We DON’T TAKE KINDLY by people who will jump on any provocation to talk smack about us.
IF YOU PEOPLE want us to support Hillary, then it behooves you to play fair and square with we Bernie supporters both before and after the convention. I don’t see it happening. PROVE ME WRONG.