Reply #21: Thanks to the respondents here for helping me to decide.... [View All]

[theHandpuppet]

... whether to keep fighting the battle against bigotry and class warfare on DU or to just to throw in the towel and leave this place to the self-appointed lords of the flies.

Despite repeated pleas to the mods and adminstrators here to curtail the kind of vile prejudice some of you continue to spew against people of Appalachia, it's obvious that the whole notion of even giving pause to your invectives is little more than a joke to you. You giggle and snort at the cleverness of your snide remarks, your painting of all Appalachians as racists, ignorant, "culturally inferior"... you laugh at posting photos of supposed "hillbillies" passed out naked on outdoor toilets, accuse them for their poverty, demean them for their own lack of education. You blame the powerless for your own lack of control, and feel better for labeling others who have so little themselves as beneath even your contempt.

Well by all means give yourselves a pat on the back for managing to package your very own brand of a poisoned vision for a new America.

Had the kind of posts and threads I have read here been posted about any other group of people in this country, there are a number of you who would have been tombstoned long ago and rightly so. And I'm sorry to say that among the more reasoned and cogent voices for Mr. Obama, I have seen far too few who are willing to take a stand against your brand of bigotry and bullying. That says a lot to me.

So have at it. I think it's abundantly clear now that there are no consequences for preaching your kind of hate.

What a joke indeed.