Why does DailyKos permit such ugliness against Palestinians?

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Thursday January 01, 2009 · 3:06 PM PST

2009/01/01 · 15:06

Here is a comment from a longterm DK user.

I of course find this comment to be incredibly dismissive of the pain that so many Palestinians are going through.

Why is this sort of ugliness tolerated and even supported here on Kos when a similarly dismissive joke about Jews, Israelis, or Native Americans would be immediately hidden and the poster probably banned?

What's with the racial double standard? It undermines the credibility of the site.

dworth

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Tuesday December 30, 2008 · 11:24 AM PST

2008/12/30 · 11:24

Israel's Likud party is a terrorist organization.

The Democratic party is a terrorist organization.

These are things you would have to believe in order to label Hamas a terrorist organization in my opinion.

I respect Noam Chomsky, but I don't believe these things.

I believe that the leaders of these parties can and have sanctioned terrorist activity, but I have a problem with the labeling of political parties as terrorist organizations. Terrorist organizations will always be terrorist in nature because that is their purpose. Political organizations can be changed to reject terrorist activities if their leaders adopt humanitarian principles.

dworth

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Monday December 29, 2008 · 5:49 PM PST

2008/12/29 · 17:49

I'm tired of hearing that those of us who think that Israel has gone too far are in the "extreme wing" of our party... that we're the minority.

I simply don't believe that the majority of Progressives support the things Israel is doing this week.

I don't think that condemnation of Israel for what's going on is the "extreme wing" of our party.

I think support of what Israel is doing this week is the "extreme wing" of our party.

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