Reply #572: Yes.

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People are personalizing criticism of the Administration and taking it as full license to lob personal attacks on individual DUers. I've even seen people do it with an appending "So there, how do you like it!" on the end like it was some eye for an eye thing. AFAIK, no one here is a personal friend or family member of the Obamas or any other member of the Administration. It is puzzling to me why criticism is taken as a personal affront. And that is *not* the group that is being weeded out here with the heavy discipline of banning, often without a single warning.

I also agree with Prism that following the actual rules *as stated* would lead to better DU relations. I hated seeing the silencing of the GBLT community here, and I'm seeing this lack of solidarity carried on in torment of teachers, labor and peace advocates and discussions of poverty and the economy. These used to be important things to support here. I'm sad that these issues are being sidelined by the Administration and by proxy, DU.