Israel/Hamas War Superthread

[Dill]

(03-12-2024, 12:10 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: It's a description of a behavior and posting history.  If a poster consistently made excuses for the KKK, mitigating their actions and comparing them to BLM, would it not be appropriate to call their conduct as apologizing for racists?  So, I ask you, what do you call it when a person, over the course of years, consistently makes excuses for, and defends, groups such as Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hezbollah and Hamas?  In this very thread he directly equated Hamas to the right wing of the Israeli government.  Do you think that's an appropriate comparison?

Not that I expect a serious response.

Depends on what you call "mitigating" and "making excuses."  

If BLM wanted to forbid mixed marriage and send white people back to Europe in the name of some "Black Supremacy," 
why would a comparison to the Klan be "inappropriate"?  For the same reason, Israelis who want to cleanse "Greater Israel" of
Arabs may be appropriately compared to Palestinians who want to cleanse Palestine of Jews. 

Why isn't refusal to acknowledge both exist and exert their views in their respective spheres a kind of "making excuses" for one side? 

There is no person on this list who "consistently makes excuses for, and defends, groups such as Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hezbollah and Hamas."  

That you claim there is raises the question--by what criteria are you measuring/asserting all this? 

E.g., you once called me an "ISIS supporter" simply for refusing, on humanitarian based ethics, to call them "animals" or "savages." 

Is that "apologizing" for them, or rather a refusal to endorse, as you do, the application of de-humanizing language to other humans?
I "support" ISIS because I refuse to dehumanize? And you don't because you do dehumanize??

On the other hand, you once equated ANTIFA to the KLAN because both initiated street violence, and I refused the equation because of their opposite ideals, though I condemned the resort to violence and said both should be subject to the same penalties. I.e., I still didn't, in principle, forbid comparison of their behavior. For that you called me an "ANTIFA supporter." 

Isn't it more accurate to say that there is a guy on this list who consistently accuses people of "supporting" and "apologizing for" groups he denounces 
if they prefer social-scientific comparison/analysis to following him in pointless, repetitive denunciation?