Since I've been contributing to DailyKos.com in both diary and commentary, I've been called a sexist, a racist, and accused of white privilege.
I really believe those who make those attacks are themselves sexist, racist and motivated by white privilege.
Once I wrote a diary entry and my tags were even sabotaged and re-written by some angry Hillary supporter.
To most progressives and Sanders supporters, who I would call “real” Democrats, Hillary is a Republican impostor, and see a Democratic party which betrays it's progressive roots as illegitimate. The Democratic party should be the true home of the progressive movement is the view of Sanders supporters, who now make up about (excuse a hard number) lets say 40% of the party and growing.
My motivation with much of the things I've written here is getting more and better Democrats elected, by which I mean progressive Democrats. Apparently if this doesn't jibe with the promotion of Hillary Clinton I should expect to be actively silenced.
In the response to a diary which made the “electability” argument against Sanders, I wrote that Hillary was less electable against Trump.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/3/1495479/-Bernie-ideas-but-Hilary-electable
My post was flagged 4 times and stricken from the website.
I can't see how this wasn't politically motivated censorship by those looking to push Hillary over Bernie. I wish DailyKos would make this clear to the numerous Bernie supporters here so they make no mistake this being a pro Clinton website where the views of Sanders supporters are barely tolerated.
This is not the only time the Hillary police have flagged and stricken comments over the months I've contributed here, and while on occasion I've push the bounds and been flagged legitimately according to some rule, more often it's like the example I've shown revealing an effort to silence an opposing view. I know I've taken flack for expressing my view, controversial even among Bernie supporters, that Trump winning would be a better path forward for progressive Democrats in the long run than Hillary winning, like in chess sometimes you make a sacrifice to win the game, but I didn't say anything like that in this post. In no way did this comment do anything but argue Hillary's electability just like that diary did Bernie's. Why was this comment stricken?
How come someone can write that Bernie is unelectable, but if Hillary's electability is questioned the thought-police swoop down to shut you up?