"A small group" is responsible for all that ails DU

[BellaKos]

18. BainsBane

You wrote:
"The fact is we are dealing with some very angry people who hate progress more than anything else. They despise the fact that they are expected to treat others as human, that they can't insult women as b and cs at will (even though they do and juries let them get away with it"
Generalize much? How can you presume to characterize people here with such a sweeping generalization, based on nothing more than your apparent mind reading capabilities?

We can't deem each and every offense as cruelty, when, more likely than not, it's a result of cultural indoctrination that
takes a lifetime to overcome. Yes, point out a comment as offensive, but say *why* explicitly in an effort to educate, instead of reflexively condemning people as being deliberately cruel, angry, and unwilling to treat others with respect.

After all, there are far larger issues happening today that do demand outrage and that we can safely assume are predicated by cruelty, anger, and disrespect for race, gender, or sexual orientation. But when it comes to DUers, education would likely work. But it would have to be education delivered honestly with the intention to explain and not prefaced by an insinuation that the DU member is *less than* one who is truly and purely progressive, open-minded, knowledgeable, and enlightened.