Community Chat

[Lotus]

I have always lived in a very diverse community, and I'll be honest.......I was shocked when I first started reading the vitriol, bigotry, and hate talk here.

I don't know what shocked me more.....the words.....or that posters actually said them.

[biancardi]

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@Lotus wrote:

I have always lived in a very diverse community, and I'll be honest.......I was shocked when I first started reading the vitriol, bigotry, and hate talk here.

I don't know what shocked me more.....the words.....or that posters actually said them.

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It is a scary world for them.   Things are changing and it is out of their control.  They cannot accept new change.

The type of rhetoric I read here is so over the top.  A simple fact check can prove it, but then again, the facts are now being "spun" into well, you can read it anyway you want to.

It is shocking and it is ugly.   It had gotten worse over the years and it really needs to stop.  But if people have this "hate" in their hearts, I don't know how that will change.  And I am talking about Americans.  Yes, there are other external factors here at play, but we are better than that.

We have to be.

[spix]

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@Mmsfoxxie wrote:

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@physicsnut wrote:

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@Marp wrote:

over the years has brought me smiles, laughter, and more than a few giggles. There have been moments of joy and sorrow. I've have learned many things, enjoyed friendships, given and received support, compassion and sympathy. There have been rare spats with other posters and a few mea culpas.

Mostly my experience here has been positive and enjoyable but for many months now much of what I read on various threads leaves me with deep sadness, bewilderment and even fear for the future of American society.

When did so many become so mean, so uncaring, so hateful? Have poster attitudes changed that much, have they always been like that but abided by conventional social mores and kept quiet or is it just that I am here more so see more?

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  Just look at the streets of Chicago today. Angry protestors everywhere. Guess they have no job they have to be at or just don' care.  The mood of this country has drastically changed over the past 7 years and it is not a good change that is for sure.

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I don't think that's quite a fair statement about the protestors in Chicago, @physicsnut.   It makes it seem as if they have no valid reason to protest and they're just hanging out.  Some might be but most are serious.

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I would ask those protestors, who did you vote for????????????

I live in Chicago so might know more than some.

[jaxs mom]

It's really too bad this thread has turned into a very thinly veiled attempted to play politics. The nasty behavior has been on both sides and isn't limited to political differences. But of course, I guess this thread was just too tempting to not take advandate of by some. 

[Noel7]

There is no denying what is being said publicly on a daily basis. 

IMO, ignoring it doesn't make it go away.  Especially not when it gives psychological permission for others to follow suit.

[JustJazzmom]

@spix

This is O/T but the protesters are protesting the shooting 16X of an AA teen running away and not towards the police (as they wrote in their reports) and proven wrong by the recently released (around Thanksgiving) video of the incident.

The people protesting are angry that the police who did this have not been reprimanded or removed from their jobs-- the Feds have now stepped in to investigate this further.

[MyGirlsMom]

Remember "polite society?"   I think that phrase went the way of the dinosaurs. 

[spix]

@JustJazzmomOh sorry, the newscasts I've been watching have been about  the protestors calling for Rahm to resign