FUCK!!! this is why i never leave the lounge.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

GD shatters all my beliefs about democrats being nonracist/non homophobic/non sexist people


ugh!

i shall not go into GD ever again!

[AtomicKitten]

1. they are just uber-po'd

please wander wherever you like on DU.

[jonnyblitz]

2. I saw that sad , sad thread you are talking about.

and one of the people posting in it once made a comment, "no wonder people don't like gays" because some guy who didn't reveal his homosexual orientation supposedly "led her on". she immediately posted a thread with that exact title ("no wonder people don't like gays"). :eyes:

[ghostsofgiants]

3. What thread are you talking about?

I never leave the lounge either, haha, I wanna go gawk at the douchebags.

[LostinVA]

4. Me too....

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. the abuse in india call center thread

[NMMNG]

8. Gotcha

I'm :eyes: and :grr: right now.

[NMMNG]

6. Where are they? Let me at them!

:grr:

[JI7]

7. not everyone on here is a Democrat

or even liberal.

[Blue-Jay]

9. Not all Democrats agree with you about everything.

That's the beauty of being an independent thinker.

[jonnyblitz]

10. oh please.

is that what we are calling racism now? independent thinking? :rofl: :rofl:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. god the beauty of that statement...

:rofl:

[Blue-Jay]

14. No. Racism is racism.

My point (probably poorly implied, I'll grant you) is that some people are quick to cry "You're a bad Liberal" whenever someone disagrees with them. You've seen it, so have I.

[ghostsofgiants]

25. But there is unabashed racism going on in that thread.

This isn't about people being bad liberals, this is about racism not being a liberal trait at all.

[Blue-Jay]

26. what thread?

The OP did not reference a particular thread. I figured that it was random ranting.

[ghostsofgiants]

28. The one about call centers in India.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

32. and your assumption that i was crying about nothing at all...

is based on what exactly?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. sorry i dont see beauty where there is racism or homophobia

or sexism.

to me under any circumstances these attitudes are ugly.

[Blue-Jay]

15. I don't disagree with you.

[LeftCoast]

13. Racist, homophobic and sexist post aren't allowed here at DU

Help us out by alerting on those kinds of posts when you see them. :hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

16. You fought a good fight.

I would like to thank you. Please do go over to GD for issues. It's important that the discussion stay balanced. The racism issue vs. the offshoring issue got all tangled in a ball in that thread. I participated in a thread recently that made me want to scream "And you call yourself liberal/progressive?" I'm sure that I've evoked the same reaction in others on different issues.

GD is about thrashing out differences and finding a common truth, although sometimes that's hard to do. Just remember to leave before you start putting everyone on ignore.:hi:

[Hotler]

17. Their bark is worse than their bite. Give them another shot.

You don't have to go to that thread, GD has lots of good stuff.

[hyphenate]

18. GD has its uses

It's a good place to go to see a significant portion of DUers trying to understand the "dark side". I personally find some things there to be eye opening, and my wrath at the pukes gets re-energized on different occasion after my visits to GD.

[LittleClarkie]

19. Democratic or not, it's still a messageboard

with all the attendant characters that usually inhabit your average messageboard. Not indicative of your average Dem, I should think. People tend to say things more dramatically, not worry about how they might offend as they would face to face, and often don't take the time to couch their comments in some sort of context that would make them seem more reasonable.

[laheina]

21. Some people work from their emotions

instead of their logic centers. Sometimes people use different definitions of the same word, and it seems to color their attitudes when the same people may agree. And we only have one channel of communication here, so it's difficult to make ourselves understood. All disadvantages of the medium. :)

Being overly literal, myself, I just try not to get worked up.

[LittleClarkie]

23. Someone once called posting on a messageboard like driving

in traffic. Sometimes you just react to the moment, regardless of whether you're being consistent in your view all the time. I know that sometimes I'm probably not entirely consistent, and sometimes I do let my emotions get the better of me.

[laheina]

29. The traffic analogy is a good one. :)

It also seems to me to be pretty accurate.

I definitely get emotional sometimes, and I know that it clouds my perspective. Those are the times when, in a face to face conversation, I would just throw my hands up and take a time-out. :)

[Telly Savalas]

30. And some of them are racist assholes who should crawl back

under the rock they came from.

[Generator]

20. It wasn't one of those

Democrats need balls threads was it? Because the ovaries are in demand in my book, just not ones named Clinton. Boxer ovaries?

[laheina]

22. Can I borrow that?

Next time I see one of those I'll be sure to post it. Although that isn't the only reason that those threads annoy me. ;)

[mdmc]

24. hang in there!

I wish that Dems were progressive...liberal. I once ran for office. A jewish lawyer was running at the top of the ticket. I remeber him saying something like, "that dirty jew fag" referring to a shady reporter. There is a lot of racism, sexism, et al in our party.

What pissed you off in GD (I'll go n clean house, muderphucker!)?

:hug:

[In_The_Wind]

27. lionesspriyanka

:loveya:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

31. aww thank you!

[AtomicKitten]

36. that's the spirit!

[clyrc]

33. I usually spend a lot of time in GD, lurking mostly

but I have sworn to stay away for a while. In the interests of my health, and not breaking anything close to hand. I've actually suffered depression from visiting GD lately.

The lounge is still good, though.

[sasquatch]

34. Sorry but not everyone in that thread were racist

The post that were racist were deleted, but the one's that were honestly critical of outsourcing weren't racist.

I think you need to get a little thicker skin.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

35. where did i say all the posts were racist?

and i dont want skin any different from what i already have...do i advise you to get over outsourcing because its happening? i dont want to get over racism, thank-you very much.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

37. I just threw another log on the fire.

All the Indians were putting their two cents in, so I thought I should, too. :)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

40. see to me its not about about being indian

this could be said for manufacturing workers in mexico or china.

no point insulting/abusing poor/middle class people in other countries.

US leaders both political and economical are making these decisions. US voters are allowing them to by electing people who wont tax corporations for outsourcing.

how is this someone else's fault?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

42. I saw the parallels, too.

Though in GD's illegal immigration threads, there tends to be compassion for workers who come here illegally, while outsourced work to India is usually attacked. :shrug:

[Crazy Dave]

38. Look in the mirror

Not the OP but I see some user names on here calling the kettle black.
She's bringing up a good point in my opinion.

[Ohio Joe]

39. I read LBN

And occasionaly post a reply but I pretty much the only oher place I go is here as well. I understand.

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

41. Stay here with us progressives, darlin'...

... we love you JUST the way you are! :hug: :loveya: