He’s coming right out and saying it. What more do people need? You’ll be safe if you’re a white, cishet, Christian man. Anyone else who helps this guy into office could be potentially signing their own death warrant and he’s coming right out and admitting it. Promoting it.
I don’t disagree with OP’s personal take that they added to the post body, but I really think that’s a bad practice…
It’s one thing when someone links an excerpt from the article they are posting, which is commonplace. But the post body absolutely should not be for the user’s subjective take, especially when the common practice is to quote the article. It muddies the waters and can be unclear who the author is (user or article).
Comments like OP made should be in the comments section where they belong. Anyone remember how r/Askreddit had to change the rules/automod because users would ask a question just to make a long story text post?
Comments should stay in the comments section for news communities like this. The only exception should be posts with many links/megathreads.
I’ve also seen users state things in the post body that contradict the article they posted. I think there should be a rule added to stop this practice. If your personal take has merit, it’ll be upvoted in the comments. It’s vain and problematic to put it in the post body IMO.
… Or you can just realize this isn’t reddit and that the post body is there for a reason. That is for OP to add whatever they please.
The post body is for whatever the community rules say the post body is for. They have an opinion on what rules this community should adopt regarding post bodies, and I think it’s fair that they can voice that opinion. It has nothing to do with whether or not this is Reddit, they just used an example from Reddit.
This is a political community, not solely a news one. It’s for political commentary and reporting. Especially when it comes to politics, everyone should be reading the source anyway (obviously) and even finding alternate sources to corroborate and test bias etc. It feels ridiculous to say that someone can’t add their political comments to a post in the politics community