After reading the purge lists and the commentary, I've decided to join the Criminal Injustice Boycott.
There's simply no point in continuing to write for an allegedly progressive site that does not make room for the views of progressive people of color (unless they talk about what white folk want to talk about, in the manner in which white folk want to hear about it). I'm sick of explaining the simple, basic definition of racism time and time again, only to be attacked (and have allied commenters attacked) by folks who refuse to admit racism is a systemic problem that implicates every single white person who does not exercise her/his privilege in the cause of breaking down white supremacy. That's just Racism 101, and in my opinion, anyone who doesn't get that doesn't have the right to call themselves progressive. Period.
I'm sick of watching black women who advocate for racial and gender justice be demonized and viciously attacked by racists who clearly wouldn't lift a finger to address the problems these women struggle to solve every single day. The demonizers are the exact same sort of folks who loved RainbowGirl and were taken in by "her" because she was an allegedly black person saying exactly what privileged white folks want to hear. (The folks who were banned, I'd like to point out, were on to Rainbow Girl in a hot second.) Instead of being shamed by their mistake, RainbowGirl advocates continue to insist that black folks should conform to their idea of what black folks should be.
My conversations with Meteor Blade convinced me -- from the moment DK4 opened -- that it would be even less friendly to people of color than DK3. And it was clear to anyone who really gave a damn about progressives of color that Meteor Blades was the only person among the Powers That Be who acknowledged the terrible effect systemic racism and sexism is having on the so-called progressive community. Racism and sexism in white, male progressives prevents them from forming solid alliances with progressive non-whites. And if white progressives think that they can win elections without the support of non-white Democrats, they've got another think coming. Kos is at the top of my list for people who clearly don't understand and/or don't care to understand the systemic nature of racism in the U.S., and the way that his site participates in upholding, rather than dismantling, white supremacy. If he did understand, DK would have a strictly enforced policy of penalizing those who vent their racism and sexism in diaries and comments. But look, Ma! It's not there!
So go ahead and NR or ban me too, because whenever I read what they write, I'm up there saying "fuck yeah!" to the comments of soothsayer99, RadioGirl, princss6, conlakappa, sberel, and JoanMar. I haven't been around much lately, but I'm sure that if I was, I'd be on the same hit list. You can take my 5 bars and my TU status and shove them, because for the life of me I can't see why I should be labeled a DK "good girl" despite the knock down drag-out arguments I've had with racists at DK all along the line. I'm not going to contribute to the pretense that DK gives a shit about the non-white progressive community by continuing to publish my anti-racist work here. There are other venues where anti-racism isn't just window dressing.
Peace. Out.
UPDATE: Link to CIK Boycott post, which has links to the banning list.