Israel/Hamas War Superthread

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(04-26-2024, 05:22 PM)Dill Wrote: Well you'd be right if the protestors were "advocating for Hamas."  But they are not.

Oh no, they are.





Plenty more where that came from btw.

Quote:They are protesting the mistreatment of Palestinian civilians before and during the war. 
Not hard to get from there to "noble cause," regardless of who buys their tents.

In part.  they are also calling for the elimination of Israel, telling Jewish students to "go back to Poland", advocating for the freedom of convicted terrorists, saying all "Zionists" should be killed.  Also, you do get that someone buying the tents is rather obvious proof of this being astroturfed?  Are you really that unintelligent that you can't put two and two together there?

Quote:This is easy to discover. E.g., check out the links from Jewish students and faculty I've posted
on the "Columbia" thread. From this it's not clear why THEY, not YOU, are the "uniformed bigots."

Interesting accusation, calling me a bigot.  How do you substantiate that?  Also, I'm sure your friend will be very upset about this name calling.  he's very consistent in this regard.

Quote:But you've not taken the time to discover what they are protesting, or deliberately shied from that, 
to police perspectives and share feelings. The result is one false claim. No factual comparison or fact checking whatsoever.

That Post article was pretty bad, tabloid level, as in superficial and designed less to report than to lead readers
to the "Right" conclusion via association.  Inquiry into protestors motives is settled via association with a known "liberal."
Compare that to the historically informed and thoughtful reflection of Dino's article by Harari or mine by Masha Gessen.

I'm sorry it didn't live up to the very high Dill standards.  Maybe if it was twenty pages longer?

Quote:So as usual, the primary differen

Quote:ce between us concerns standards, the difference in
willingness to vet sources, to observe/investigate before judging, to argue from evidence
rather than to accuse and substitute emotion for evidence.

No, the primary difference between us is that one, I can actually identify terrorists, and I, unlike yourself, do not carry water for them.