So apparently that spirit of sacrifice and togetherness doesn't fly in this community when there are tough economic times.
Since I apparently have to catalog this trend I encourage everyone to peruse the comments in this diary
http://www.dailykos.com/...
and this diary
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Again a very small sample of the sentiment that has prevailed here.
I've seen comments and diaries repeatedly lately on this supposedly progressive blog of ours that scapegoat immigrants and brown people and blame all the ner do wells for causing our economic crisis by being "irresponsible" in how they buy homes. I've seen people write comments that get uprated for saying things like
I don't care what your NON-AMERICAN viewpoint says about me, my family, or my fellow americans.
Since you won't ever have the balls to say that shit to my 6'6" 240lbs all muscle face, just fuck off.
P.S. for idiot foreigners like you who can't read simple English... you are replying to a comment thread in which the previous comment asked if I was a native american.
or this,
You are a racist pig. You are just another racist immigrant demanding to take my job and my house and my food along with it.
And btw u racist fcuk, the best and brightest are not from India. If they were, Americans would want to be moving there to find a better life amongst the best and the brightest. Funny how reality and facts get in the way of your prejudice isn't it.
while it thankfully did receive one more HR than an uprate was met with tacit approval when the author of the comment "explained" why he said it and a large number of people thought there a.) was an excuse and b.) that excuse was good. This from a diary that sat atop the rec. list which called out an ethnicity by name as "carpetbagging foreigners" that took someone's job, didn't deserve it, and (unsubstantiated by any facts) didn't spend money here. To me scapegoating brown people for the world's troubles is tiresome. Blaming immigrants because "they took er jooobs" is not something I thought I'd see sitting atop the rec. list here.
Then there are the barrage of comments and diaries that blame the "irresponsible" homeowners for the problems, with all the attendant wailing and gnashing of teeth that "those people" would get some money while the "good responsible people" don't get the money. I never thought, that on a progressive blog, I'd see so many people bitching and moaning about the fact that their slice of the pie was a sliver smaller than their neighbors. I think it's time to take a good hard look in the mirror here. When the shit hits the fan, is it suddenly every man for himself, or is it we're all in this together? Because lately, all I've seen is a hell of a lot of blaming, scapegoating, punishing the "irresponsible", and generally bitching about any entitlement that doesn't meet a strict, personal criteria for what is "fair"? I'm sorry, but that is the Republican's bag. I know things are scary right now, but being narrowly self interested with an "I got mine, so fuck you" or "You got a piece bigger than mine and I'm better than you" attitude does not help this country in the slightest. Let's get our shit together around here, because lately it's been hard to tell the difference between this blog and freerepublic sometimes. And no, that is not hyperbole.