African American
Related: About this forumMy star expires on April 21st, which is normally no big deal to anyone....
Expiration Date: Apr 21, 2016
However... Skinner, with all due respect, I continue to see African-Americans treated differentially from the rest of the DU population. I don't think it's just my "biased lens" either. The vast majority of the hides against 1SBM, Bravenak and other PoC were bullshit. I don't vote to hide unless someone is being really insulting and over the line or posts straight-up RW propaganda or a RW source. If you say something GENERIC about Bernie supporters or Hillary supporters, I could not care less. You are NOT talking about me. I know I'm thin-skinned (and working on it), but geeze louise, some of the hides on DU are really ridiculous.
Out of respect to you, Skinner, I will browse DU with NO adblock feature. Your ads fund operations and I think this is only fair to you. I know you have a family you need to support, so I honor your time and commitment to this website.
I'm sure people will tell me I'm horribly biased and that no alert-stalking goes on, blah blah blah. Baloney. I see it all the time. I've thought about my decision for weeks, and I made it. No more star. I know no one really cares about this but me, but it's made in solidarity with the PoC community.
Steve (a white male ally of the PoC community)
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)running here, I will except this domain so it wont run out of respect to the owner as well.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)The default, IIRC, is $35 a year, but he is generous and allows a star for $1. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 22, 2016, 02:19 PM - Edit history (3)
In fact, I would pay for extra spots if I could.
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)I understand why others retain the star for that feature.
wildeyed
(11,240 posts)And really hate the ads. I do take self enforced breaks from 2-7 days long, depending on my disgust level.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)*sigh*
I haven't yet had any hides and I'm sure that's one of the reasons why. I fill up that jury blacklist and keep it filled. One of the people on my jury blacklist gets banned and I fill the spot right away.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)I like the bi-directional ignore. I would love to be able to 'block' a user like you can on FB,
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steve2470
(37,457 posts)I alerted on him/her and poof, it's gone. Amazing how much that person knows about DU.
wildeyed
(11,240 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)Should come to a DU get together.
The name tag!
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lovemydog
(11,833 posts)wildeyed
(11,240 posts)amnesty period once. Admins said no, but pretty funny.
CrispyQ
(36,231 posts)Now I pay $10 a year so I can search.
There's a lot about DU I don't like, but I can't tell you how many times I've read something here & then 2-3 days later it's on the news.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)There are a bunch of DUers who alert on, or vote to hide on, every single post possible from certain people. Bravenak, 1SBM, SheShe, etc. There are a number of DUers who have this happen, including a lot of AA DUers. It isn't about one DUer stalking people, it's about a group who has power because they work together to put in bad alerts and then hide every alerted post by certain people. I don't even know if they've networked to plan it, or if they just built up a following to do this. But I know something is going on when I see some of the hides the people who are getting swarmed get. In some cases, it looks like the DUer lost their temper and earned a hide, but in a lot of cases the hides look really questionable, at best.
Some white Clinton supporters seem to get bad alerts and hides too. I've seen bad alerts on some Bernie supporters as well, so it isn't all one sided, but on the other hand when 80% of the people on this site support one candidate, it's going to be biased simply because of that.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I'm host of CHaS, Florida, Loners, Weather Watchers and the BOG. Not willing to give all of those up.
I'm still 1000000000000000000000000000000000000% in support of the PoC community.
With all due respect, Skinner, my original complaint stands.
romana
(765 posts)I was a star member for years, but when I came back for this election, the first jury I was on allowed a racist piece of garbage post to stand, and there have been others since then, too. I won't give this site another dime until they do something substantive about the jury system, because it's being abused. Parts of this site are an ugly joke now, and it used to be my go to place. That makes me very sad.
More importantly, many (not all) on the left (and that includes me as a white woman) needs to take a good, long, hard look at their racism and sexism. I have learned so much about my own ingrained racism and sense of entitlement from this group and others, and I'm trying to do better every single day.