Let's Try It This Way...Under What Instances, Is It Okay To Praise The President On DU ???

[Jim Lane]

380. You're illustrating the point I made.

Your argument that there are instances in which it is not "okay to praise the President on DU" is that sometimes, if you do it, other DUers will express disagreement with your argument.

It's a discussion board. Deal with it.

As for your contention that posters are "singled out and mocked" -- I don't understand "singled out". If DUer A writes a post praising Obama for appointing yet another Wall Streeter to an important economic position, and I want to express my disagreement, the software automatically displays a window that's headed "Response to original post by DUer A". I might well say, "DUer A, I disagree with you." That isn't being "singled out" in any unfair sense.

Yes, people are sometimes mocked here. People are called Obamabots, right-wing trolls, morons, assholes, etc. Personal insults of that type have come from people criticizing Obama and from people defending Obama. They should be hidden whichever side they come from.

But if the "pushback against the people who craft those posts" takes the form of reasoned disagreement from a progressive point of view, then you have no basis for whining about it. Address the merits. As Wayne LaPierre never said, the only thing that can stop a DUer with a bad argument is a DUer with a good argument.