Has Daily Kos been overrun by xenophobic racist trolls?

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Last edited Mon Dec 22, 2014, 12:50 AM - Edit history (1)

I wrote the following article at Daily Kos recently. This article was so overran with xenophobic racist trolls, that it was thread-jacked and trolled right off the recommended list.

Though the Daily Kos community is a great bastion of progressive supporters, in recent times it has become substantially overrun by xenophobic racist trolls who seem to, especially after the Michael Brown incident seem to have come out of the woodwork at DKOS. Here's the intro paragraph from that DKOS article which received 128 recommends before being trolled off the recommended list. (If you also have a DKOS account, please consider recommending this diary)

Spiegel quote: It is mostly white men who shoot young African Americans in the service of the state.
(Written by a Caucasian, American expat living in Germany).

THE AMERICAN RACE WAR!!
The German magazine Der Spiegel's English language edition is the equivalent of TIME magazine. As I'm a professional librarian and an American expat living in Germany, I've been asked by librarians often to review articles and I am pleased to do so. What emerges out of this Spiegel magazine series is the ugly history of Ferguson, Missouri and indeed America's past of chattel slavery and sanctioned militarized police state violence against African American males under color of law.

Link to article: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/13/1350195/-Spiegel-quote-It-is-mostly-white-men-who-shoot-young-African-Americans-in-the-service-of-the-state

Although it should be noted this article (above) was part 2 of a 2-part diary series, wherein part 1 is made available at the link below, whereupon it should be said that part 1 was written before the Michael Brown verdict. Therefore part 1 wasn't as heavily trolled, it received 360 reader recommends.

(Part 1) The German Spiegel publishes the truth about history of slavery & bigotry in Ferguson, MO.

Link to article: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/20/1331119/-The-German-Spiegel-publishes-the-truth-about-history-of-slavery-bigotry-in-Ferguson-MO

PS: Finally please note the following, after having received 360 reader recommends, this article on the day of its publication was rated as the #1 diary at Daily Kos out of all diaries published on the jotter's list DKOS rating guide. Yet the DKOS administration for whatever reason took the decision not to promote this diary on its Facebook page. Therefore this article only received in excess of 1,000 Facebook shares to date. Therefore your support is asked to please consider sharing part 1 and part 2 of this series.

Additionally I would like to note my personal disappointment in the DKOS management for not supporting my two part series on racism in America today from the perspective of an American expat reporting from Germany, in a librarian's review of mainstream European media sources as a work in professional journalism. The American progressive community is well served to consider the diversity of the international community on matters of the crisis in Ferguson. The world is speaking to America, shouldn't we extend ourselves to listen in a way that makes sense and adds value to our discourse on the issue of contemporary and historic American racism, which seems to be overwhelmingly supported by hate radio and right wing rabid trolls, who seem to haunt and stalk progressive bloggers with little or no protection from the administration of various blog sites.