Some people are getting suckered in big time..

[Peacetrain]

Someone posted an op earlier, that ended up being locked,because it dripped racism in a back handed way.. Trouble was, that there are some posters who have gotten themselves so anti Obama that they chimed in without really reading what the op was doing.. I actually felt sorry for them, because if they had gone back and read what was happening in the thread, I am sure they would have had second thoughts.

Well by George the guy is doing it again..and the same thing is happening..

Either that is one of the smartest people in the world to get DU people in a stir.. or that is the dumbest son of a gun that has ever handled a key board.

I am thinking it it the former

[rebel with a cause]

1. some people are just what they are and are not going to change.

and some people will follow a racist, agreeing with them, while they would never stand alone and say the same things. They are the closet racist.

[JohnnyLib2]

2. Rock and roll, baby!

I'll vote for former.

[Hekate]

3. I agree with you: this is deliberate disruption and trollitude.

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[RoyGBiv]

4. Oh, I think this is quite deliberate ...

I think the majority of the posts initiating the disruption are constructed by a very small minority of active posters. However, and while I'm sure I could be accused of arrogance for saying it, a very large number of active posters fall for this garbage and run with it, creating a cycle that allows the disruption to become self-sustaining.

If one were to believe the world is a rational place, one might assume a collection of individuals so prone to believing in bizarre conspiracy theories and who as a result have at least familiarized themselves with the actual uses of propaganda would be sensitive to this. But, no, this is not a rational world, which is why propaganda of this sort works so well.

There are a number of posters who have become active just in the last few months, some of which have been long-time members but have a trivial posting record since ~2004. I don't know why exactly, but I remember one of these specifically. I used to do battle with him at length in 2004. The day after the election, he stopped posting and did not resurface until sometime late last year (well, 2008 ... I'm not acclimated to 2010 yet). He's been prolific of late. He says nothing that would result in a TS, so it is useless to try to alert on him. In fact, he seems to know the rules quite well and stays strictly within them. While I'm sure I've not read everything he's posted, I've read a lot of it (but have avoided engaging him), and he has done nothing but post negative commentary of both the President and numerous Democratic members of Congress. He's never, to my knowledge, posted a positive comment about a Democrat.

The backhanded racial commentary is becoming more and more overt, but in subtle steps, such that I wonder when the clampdown will occur and how it will be instituted. I suspect this has been allowed to go on long enough that, if anything is attempted, we will experience a rift the likes of which DU has not endured since its early days.

[Cary]

5. I know "conservative" posters who post here

I'm pretty sure that nothing would give them more pleasure than sowing rancor and discontent on Democratic Underground.

Is the similarity of the cheap rhetorical abuses a coincidence? I don't think so. What I really wonder about is the administrators' role: routinely locking threads that address the issue under the guise of "baiting."

And then there is the "backhanded racial commentary." If this isn't a trademark of "conservatives" and their hatred for "affirmative action" and "political correctness" I don't know what is. How is it that this is allowed to creep in here at DU?

It ain't right.