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People post, with out comment or expansion, whole posts from Huffington or some other publication which if they were original posts here at DU would violate various prohibitions on broad brush insults or unfair characterizations of other classes of people. I realize that there is a desire to allow discussion of these external viewpoints, but in many cases, especially when they are posted completely without comment or additional discussion, it appears to merely be ways of otherwise circumventing the rules.
Is it worth considering establishing a convention that suggests that inflammatory editorials and columns at least present some context to the opinions, especially acknowledging the over all inflammatory nature? As it is now they tend to stay around and not become locked until a real flame fest gets started.
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