DU is not a comfortable place for quite a few of us and hasn't been for a long time
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I'm not going to go into specifics but I read plenty of "bashing" on DU that seems directly aimed at me, my race, my gender, my age, my sexual orientation, my birth cohort, my "too left" politics (I still haven't got my pony) and even (particularly?) where I live is subject for prejudiced comment on DU on a remarkably regular basis. Bear in mind that only two of the things I mentioned are under my control to any extent, my politics and where I live, the rest of the things I list are innate characteristics about which I can do nothing.
So I say to DU Catholics, welcome to the club, everyone gets made uncomfortable on DU from time to time and for some of us it would be a more than daily occurrence if our skin were so thin that we let the often ignorant opinions of others get under it.
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I figure if you haven't somehow offended someone or been offended by someone on DU by the end of your first week, you're just not doing it right. 
It's really hard to be both concise and accurate, everything you say can and will be misinterpreted and used against you in a court of public opinion. 
