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The ones I have the most issues with are the ones who quote/rec/kick the grand pu bahs of DU Land who "explain" how I might have 'Stockholm Syndrome' or I don't really know what I am saying when I talk about race or social justice. Oh, sorry...the tactic is: "I'll just leave this right here....DISCUSS!!" or "I'm just asking the question!" 
These 'long-standing' DU'ers dismiss me because my post count is less than 20k or say I don't understand because I'm wired a certain way and just need to come to my senses. These veteran DU'ers insist that if I only got a higher paying job, my life would be much better and the racism and social injustice that I see everyday would magically disappear.
When I beg, demand, plead for them to hear and absorb the words - with multiple examples - I put forward, they tell me I'm combative and don't want to listen to their gospel. Of course if they feel too uncomfortable they hit the alert button and send in their equally ignorant (malicious?) DU cronies serving as a jury of their own peers to mute one of the few diverse voices around.
These aren't the short-time "jerks" who are responding, these are "long time DUers" who know exactly what they are doing....
Let's not kid ourselves, this behavior is accepted and modeled after. I think we would do ourselves a favor and acknowledge that this part of DU culture is not going to change.
mostly lurking, but I have never seen things as bad as they are now.
for miles. I was the only little brown thing up in there. Big old tabacco chewing, motorcylce driving dudes and the women who love them were the clientèle. 
By the time I'd left, my older white female friend who I'd gone with said that half the men in that bar had come up to her asking who I was and if I was "really black" because I was the "prettiest thing there." That tells you I was in redneck town, where the folks are racist as shit even when they are COMPLIMENTING you. 
Maybe that is a lesson I should apply here. When the street lights come on, it's time to go home...
I've been doing that more and more lately. Spending less and less time here and when I am here spending easily 80% of my time in this forum only. It has been so good for my spirit.
Smaller screen. Knew this was you without scrolling right!
There are some damn fools running amok!
so DigitalPuppy is correct ... things ain't gonna change ... organically. It will take an intervention.
But that would mean the DU
TB must perceive a problem ... well, a problem beyond people telling them there is a problem.
I've had people try to 'electioneer' to me back here and I'm not having it. I just let them post their four paragraph pleas then tell them, "nope! Still not voting in the primary in June!"
I refuse to align myself with acrimony towards liberals and progressives regardless of where it comes from.
I also refuse to be made into a political football. Everyone was welcome in Martin's tent and he allowed vetting and disagreement and responded to it with sitting down and having a conversation to understand. I don't think he would understand pot shots at voters who want the same things but disagree about how we get there.
valuable/profitable. It's much the same in M$M. I understand this from a business standpoint, but from a moral standpoint, I find it incredibly disheartening. I didn't renew my star this time. That may change once the very divisive primary is over, but to see John Lewis characterized as a "race hustler", coupled with the handful of black DU'ers chased around this board, stalked, harassed & baited....just breaks my heart. How the hell does one support that? 
I just read another post where DU's traffic was down something like 20%, and that doesn't surprise me at all, because a huge chunk of us have gone missing for various reasons, and many of those reasons have been laid out in this thread. It makes me sad. 
I've had to adjust. It may be the ads, and it may not, but it's happening on every device I use to access DU.
Much to my surprise, I learned that Skinner has an Ignore list just like the rest of us. I asked a couple of questions in ATA, months ago, and to this day, neither of them have been answered. I guess I'm on his list? I'm not sure how one "administers" a board like this, if you're ignoring members?
Ads are virtually non-existent on mobile devices for me.
