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In reply to the discussion: please pay attention to this alert [View all]nc4bo
(17,651 posts)33. Many DUers want an explanation of a juror's decision but unless you can
calmly and eloquently put your words to keyboard without your cheese falling off the cracker due to severe kneejerkitis, best to leave it blank.
Safer that way........bad side is the alerter never gets to hear just how asinine and FOS an alert is and how it's wasting valuable time which could be spent trapping real trolls or hiding legitimately horrible, hateful, bad behaviors.
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I was on that jury. Doesn't surprise me at all that it was allowed to stand.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jul 2015
#7
Exactly. When I argue that there are white LIBERAL racists, even right here on DU...
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jul 2015
#6
Perfectly said. We all know that there were African slavers and they benefited from the slave trade
Number23
Jul 2015
#16
it's derailing of the toddler kind- "He did it first" or here- "He sold me those slaves"
bettyellen
Jul 2015
#37
I had a particular name for that poster a few months ago and my post got hidden.
locdlib
Jul 2015
#51