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Controversy Erupts After Legendary Activist Dolores Huerta ‘Shouted Down’ at Democratic Caucus Event

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  Activist Dolores Huerta. (Freedom To Marry / CC BY-SA 2.0)

An online battle has erupted over claims by famed labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta that she was shouted off a Nevada caucus stage with chants of “English only!”

On Saturday evening, Huerta took to Twitter with a message indicating she had been barred from providing English-to-Spanish interpretation at a Las Vegas caucus gathering in Harrah’s Casino in Las Vegas Strip.

Huerta’s tweet instigated a backlash by supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, which as the Washington Post notes, were “in many cases using the very language that had given rise to the idea that some Sanders voters are rowdy to outright rude. There were allegations of media bias and of deliberate attempts by the Clinton campaign and/or its supporters to besmirch the liberal credentials of Sanders voters or cast them as frothy-mouthed racists.”

The Washington Post continues:

As a Salon article discusses, “the difference between “cheering” and “chanting” seems a strange hill to die on, but, as with most stupid election controversies, the anger here is more about what the story symbolizes than the actual facts in dispute.”

“Things are tense right now,” the piece continues, “because the Nevada loss is starting to look like a devastating blow to the Sanders campaign. From the beginning, the biggest obstacle to the Sanders campaign was convincing voters that this was about serious change instead of a bunch of privileged people posturing about how radical they are.

The problem is that dog-piling Huerta is exactly the wrong way to go about appealing to women, people of color, or labor organizers. The accusations of lying are a stark reminder of how women or people of color have long been treated as more mendacious than white men, and the lack of respect for an iconic labor organizer calls into question if these self-proclaimed socialists have even a basic understanding of what socialism is, or the centrality of labor concerns to the very concept of socialism. (This isn’t helped by the fact that the Sanders campaign is far more focused on middle-class benefits and Wall Street corruption than traditional socialist concerns like labor organizing or welfare for the poor.)

The attacks on Huerta also reinforce the very image that the Sanders campaign needs to get away from, which is that it’s about a bunch of well-off white men who are more interested in pushing people around than creating a progressive coalition. Of course, the odds of Sanders actually winning now are incredibly low. The coalition didn’t form and Clinton is on the path to the nomination. That we’re seeing a shift away from trying to play nice to lashing out isn’t too surprising, under the circumstances. But it’s still disappointing to see would-be socialists attacking a scion of the labor movement in this way.

—Posted by Roisin Davis

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