General Discussion

I joined soon after finding out DU existed, and interestingly, learned of it while on a socalled 'liberal' site that turned out to be a right wing hate fest replete with self professed Nazis, posters of racist imagery and epithets, and even administrators who used terms like jungle apes in reference to Black people and entertained jokes of throwing us in front of trains.

So I can vouch, from personal experience, that DU is not NEARLY as bad as that. Not by a long shot.

I'd suggest that what's changed is AMERICA.

And that perhaps a whole lot of empathic, good hearted, well meaning people here at DU, people who, at this point in our lives, had hoped for a kinder, BETTER America, for ourselves and our kids,

are instead, disappointed, angry, tired, frustrated and fed UP,

not only with a lot of unnecessary evil and malevolence but also by the seeming self defeating, willful ignorance on the part of many one would've expected to KNOW better.

There's understandably a limit to one's patience and empathy, I think.