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In reply to the discussion: Judged now by loyalty to a political leader? No disagreement accepted. [View all]starroute
(12,977 posts)I tend to be conflict-averse, so I stay out of forums where I can expect more heat than light. But a few days ago, I clicked on a post in the "Greatest" section without stopping to see its source. I found someone there claiming that the president lacks empathy and human feelings, so I jumped in to say that I believe Obama is a deeply empathetic man who happens to have reached maturity during the Reagan era and may unthinkingly accept some of the conventional wisdom of that period.
For that, I got a message in my inbox saying I had been banned from posting in the Barack Obama Forum and should contact the administrator if I thought a mistake had been made.
I had no interest in doing that. A forum that will ban you for defending the president with less than the requisite amount of enthusiasm is not a forum I want any part of. (Or if the problem was that the administrator hadn't read my post carefully enough to figure out what I was actually saying, I want no part of that, either.) But it does bother me to see even subsections of DU descending into that kind of high school rah-rah boosterism.