Have you been as depressed as I am about some of the reactions here on DU to the recent unrest in

[Douglas Carpenter]

the Middle East? Every bigot and racist seems to feel free to simply let lose. I have alerted on some post, I wrote Skinner and I posted a thread in Meta - but so far there doesn't seem to be any willingness to address the issue of anti-Muslim bigotry. Of course that is how it was here for a long, long time. But things seemed to have improved for awhile. It even seemed that those who clearly harbored bigoted attitudes were at least restraining themselves. Unfortunately, that self-restraint now appears to have expired.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to address this issue?