“She came right down in my face,” Sturtz said. “I was taken aback.”

[patrice]

196. It's troubling how the internet, including the DU, helps A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G like that out. People act

as though anyone who disagrees with them is absolutely an authentic person who hates LGBT, or is racist, or misogynistic, or opposes the 1st Amendment, or hates the Obamas, or whatever suits their characterization of their issue opponents.

So, even if what you describe, freshwest, isn't relevant to a given instance, . . . . because it gets treated as though it is - BY GOD KNOWS WHO (since most of us a posting under pseudonyms) that's what it becomes, in some cases unintentionally, in other cases with full intentionality.

I don't understand why so many people are acting as though everyone here, or elsewhere on the internet, is in fact who/what they say they are. Trolling REALLY isn't that hard. It seems so obvious to me that you shouldn't 100% believe whatever ANYONE presents themselves as, so it really makes me wonder even more why all Obama, or LGBT, supporters are assumed to in fact be Obama, or LGBT, supporters (or any of the other issue groups) and that is assumed especially if they disagree about something like heckling, or say something hateful about anyone, or if they say something really stupid. There are people who jump in and really cheer lead without even mentioning any other possibilities and we're on the FUCKING INTERNET, so what the hell gives here???

We go through what could, to a very significant proportion, be propaganda theater on this board over and over again. And no one wants to call anyone else out on the likelihood of these highly erroneous assumptions, because that wouldn't look good to whichever group s/he identifies with.

It's very depressing, maybe even hopeless, so perhaps I should re-consider my support here.