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In reply to the discussion: Has Daily Kos been overrun by xenophobic racist trolls? [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,315 posts)You wrote "DU is a much better place ... you're much better off at DU. i'm new here and i love the place already! ...i'm happy to have found a new home at DU. i can't say enough good about the DU community after being a long time lurker here. ". For you to suddenly claim that "No one has posted about DU here" is ridiculous. You yourself started this sub-thread by posting about DU.
Just because someone, somewhere, gets paid to say something on the web, it doesn't mean that people who disagree with DR are paid trolls. I see that recently, DR put up a diary on DKos that included a video from a RW 9/11 truther organisation with some very dubious views - and they linked to a Southern Poverty Law Center page for background on the organisation. Rather than say "oops, OK, ignore that video", DR went on a rant about how that person was a 'troll'. Linking to an SPLC page about a source is always a good thing. It looks like DR's immediate response to criticism is to cry 'troll!!!!'.
DR's claim is that Europeans know more about American history than Americans do, and this makes them better liberals who can point out where Americans are going wrong in race relations. This is condescending claptrap, and when people pointed out Europe has plenty of racism problems of its own, DR never tried to engage that. And it's pompous because DR keeps on going on about how many recs he's got, and dismissing people who don't write as many diaries - an attitude he also shows in this OP.
Math, reading and science scores do not tell us anything about knowledge of history.