Is it me, or has there been a SHARP

[polmaven]

increase in "racist" threads lately? They are just EVERYWHERE!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5675498 (I'm one o' them bitter, old, typical white women, so I don't know if I did that right)

In part, this reads:
Hillary has the racists. It’s really not her fault that she has the racists – she simply has them because she is white. The racists will not vote for Obama, and may even cross over to McCain. For many of these people bigotry trumps the issues. They may well leave the party if Obama is nominated much like the Dixiecrats already did.

Now, if we were to replace the word "racist" with "sexist, and reverse the names Hillary and Obama, it would read:

Obama has the sexists. It’s really not his fault that he has the sexists – he simply has them because he is male. The sexists will not vote for Hillary, and may even cross over to McCain. For many of these people bigotry trumps the issues. They may well leave the party if Hillary is nominated much like the Dixiecrats already did.

Can you just imagine the amount of howling that would be going on with that kind of post?

I do give the mods credit that this thread was locked pretty quickly, but I will say again...Threads calling anyone who is not supporting Senator Obama is now being called racist every few minutes nowadays.


:crazy:

[susankh4]

1. We are in for a hard couple of weeks in this regard.

Heading into some states that will have issues in this regard. IN, KY, WVa ..... will break in HIllary's favor. And this will be blamed on racism. It will be painful to watch. Heck, it hurts me to watch it... and I am not even cheering for Mr. Obama.

Trying to be objective here.... I think the accusations are at least partly founded. But, that doesn't change the fact that these states will not go for Obama in their primaries, let alone the G.E.

The N.C. ad, run by the GOP is making the situation even more difficult. Like salt in an already open wound.

I feel for the Obama supporters at this time. It's going to be really hard for them to watch this next couple of weeks. Not that we didn't *know* it was coming. And we tried to tell them (at least I tried to tell my children who favor him.)

[Catchawave]

2. They're still bitter over PA

And pushing the DU rules. Skinner needs to send the mods on a cruise when this primary is over :D

[shimmergal]

3. There's been a sharp increase

in the amount of venom vented in GD-P lately.

And it was bad enough already. Till now I'd go there to read the rational points put up by both candidates' supporters, but it looks like those are completely wiped out now.