I am going to take my leave from DU for a time:

[CTyankee]

42. Oh,PC, sorry to hear it. But it sounds like you put it into perspective.

At the end of the day, DU is a website, a useful tool, as you say, during elections and should be viewed that way. A useful tool. And since posters are not identified, they can be irresponsible. It's important to remember that.

I, too, find the taunting dismaying but mostly childish and irresponsible. But I also have to shrug and say "what did you expect?" to myself.

Like you, I find the anti-semitism here to be disappointing. Any bigotry is on a progressive website. But I am an adult and realize, as you do, that I have only so much control over what goes on here and beyond that, I cannot really care all that much. Too many life experiences in my real existence to deal with!

Altho I am not Jewish, members of my family are and we share a common bond. I have been honored to stand at the bima and offer prayers for peace at my granddaughter's bat mitzvah, and take part in my stepdaughter's ordination as a Reform rabbi. These experiences are part of me now and can never be erased. Not here, certainly, and also not anywhere.

I have great affection for some of the DUers here. They are my allies and my friends. I'm sure you do too. Remember them as you move on. It makes me feel good to know that and you will feel better about that, too.