Is DU more or less diverse than the Democratic Party? (updated OP)

[yuiyoshida]

142. Frankly I was shocked...

The normal response would be to ask, "What did you say? What does that mean?" And I probably would have translated. It frankly reminded me of when I used to go into chat rooms with friends, and we would speak Japanese. The people there would get upset and think the only reason, we were speaking in another language was because they thought we were talking about them in a rude way. So we would either get yelled at and told to speak English or were booted from the room.

Why is it, when speaking to friends in another language do other people assume we are talking about them? I assume some people in the post must have thought I was speaking in code to friends on DU about the person who posted the post in the first place. I would love to have a major discussion about it on DU ..BUT don't know how to get the conversation going.

DU is supposed to accept people of color, and people of other countries who have come here. Many Americans are bi linguel in some language, and yet the attitudes here are similarly like what one would expect on a right wing website.

"SPEAK ENGLISH OR GET THE F*^K OUT!! THIS AMERICA!! SPEAK F*^KING ENGLISH, FOR GODSAKES!!"

This is not a liberal or progressive way of dealing with things. The Jury seemed to be of the same mind, as what was stated above.


I really did NOT expect this kind of attitude on this website.

By the way, if you want to start a discussion on GD about the use of foreign phrases being alerted on, I would be happy to participate. Why is FRENCH acceptable or German acceptable and Chinese and Japanese are not??