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Some of y'all know that I gave up DU for Lent, and of course came back after Easter.
Since I've been back I have seen such ugliness on DU....I don't ever recall it being this bad, not even during primaries. It is subtle, but still distinguishable. Snark and personal attacks seem to be at an all-time high, while common courtesy appears to be at an all-time low. I am seeing a lot of bullying, too.
I know it is time for me to take a break from DU when yet another Biden hair plug joke can send me fuming.
These people (and they know who they are, because it's always the same people) think it's cute. However, when they do that, I reflect on the staples that were in Biden's head after his brain surgery, and I don't see the humor in it at all.
Have a problem with Biden's past decisions? Fine. Past comments he's made? Okay. Past votes? I can respect that. Those are things that can be debated.
But I cannot respect the ugliness of so-called liberals disrespecting the vice president's HAIR or hairline, knowing that the man almost died. DIED. That hairline, which seems to provide so many cheap jokes for so many folks here, was under a SCALPEL, for God's sake. I may be hypersensitive about this, but right now I don't care. It takes a special kind of callousness and depravity to do that, I think.
So I'm going to take my thin skin off the DU for a while. I was on a very ugly thread today (unrelated to Biden) witnessing the kind of cyberbullying that would discourage any decent human being. I have had my fill of lack of decency and respect, and have better things to do with my time. I'll see the usual suspects (you know who you are) in the other familiar places.
DU is going to (continue to) lose a lot of good people if they don't get the cyberbullying under control.
:hi: :grouphug:
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