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In reply to the discussion: If it's not racism, then what is it? [View all]hughee99
(16,113 posts)They choose to post about things that stir their emotions, and it seems a lot easier to stir up the bad emotions than the good. I'll admit there have been a number of times I've been upset about something the Administration has done and thought, I should go check out the DU and see what THEIR take on it is. Maybe I'm upset just because I don't understand the issue fully. There have been times where I've learned things about an issue that make me realize I was wrong. There are times when I learn things that make it sound worse than I originally thought. There are times when people just disagree on whether it is good or not based on what they predict will happen later.
I've never found myself happy about something the President did and thought, "I should go to the DU and see what they're saying, maybe I'm happy just because I don't fully understand the issue."
Some people LIKE to argue on message boards, some people LIKE to argue with those who are of a roughly like-mind but disagree on a particular issue, and if you have an issue with the Administration, you can always come to the DU and find an argument already going on and join in.
And as far as racism clams on the DU go, do you recall the 2008 primaries when some of the Obama supporter were calling Clinton supporters racists while the Clinton supporters were calling the Obama supporters sexists? A sad time for civility on the DU, but whenever there's an argument, there will always be those who seek to take the easy way out and just slap a label on their opponent so they don't have to deal with the arguments being made.