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History time.
Back in the day, runaway slave Frederick Douglas backed Abe Lincoln for President over a candidate who was for total abolition of slavery. Lincoln was open to abolition, and Douglas decided that it was better to have the ear of a sitting President over backing someone who had no chance of winning.
Bayard Ruskin was MLK's right hand man. Ruskin was invaluable in the Civil Rights battle. Ruskin was gay, and decided that it would be counter-productive to push of LGBT rights in the 1960s.
During WW2, Communists happily accepted aid from racist america and colonial England because they knew Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were much worse.
Questions?
No questions. Thank you for illustrating how minorities are so oppressed that they are forced to support any power and not bother their masters just for a slim chance of not being totally wiped out.
How about now we stop and organise? I don’t like the taste of boots.
So you think cooperation is bad and everyone should organize on their own?
No wonder why the left is so fractured
There's pretty clearly a big difference between saying we cannot ally with the DNC and must organize outside of that, vs saying cooperation itself is bad and we should organize on our own.