The Anti-Semites reveal themselves.

Renauda

Well, my education and supplementary reading on the Middle East and Islam has led me to my conclusions on the matter. Education, whatever its shortcomings, is far better then living benighted.

Horace

@Renauda said in The Anti-Semites reveal themselves.:

Well, my education and supplementary reading on the Middle East and Islam has led me to my conclusions on the matter. Education, whatever its shortcomings, is far better then living benighted.

I would be surprised if education correlates with agreement with you on this subject. Considering the hub of the opposing ideology is universities.

Renauda

I have no doubt that education does not correlate with agreement on my view.

I also do not care.

Mik

Education and discernment are very different things. This was not always the case, but now we have students being told what to think, not how.

Horace

In this case, there exist first-principles arguments which would imply support for things such as a cease fire on retaliations, after the massacre by Hamas. Without that cease fire, those same first principles lead to blaming the Jews for the civilian casualties, and round and round we go. Messaging and education will solve nothing, because the conflict doesn't depend on factual disagreements. Only on competing tribes with mutually exclusive ambitions which they each view as righteous and fair. We won't be wringing the first world savior complex out of western civilizaton any time soon, and that complex is what causes the division in the west.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Horace

@George-K said in The Anti-Semites reveal themselves.:

Problem glasses never fail.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/31/1209839480/cornell-student-arrested-antisemitic-threats

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

The Editor of the Harvard Law Review:

Copper

@George-K said in The Anti-Semites reveal themselves.:

The Editor of the Harvard Law Review:

Do you know who was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review?

(He was half white too!)

jon-nyc

You know who else were editors?

Scalia, Roberts, Ginsberg and Kagan.

And Ketanji Brown Jackson.

And Breyer and Frankfurter for those historically minded.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

And none of the aforementioned, afaik, were anti-semites who assaulted someone.

I could be wrong about the latter, of course.

Jolly

@Mik said in The Anti-Semites reveal themselves.:

Education and discernment are very different things. This was not always the case, but now we have students being told what to think, not how.

Some people are educated beyond their intelligence.

jon-nyc

Copper

taiwan_girl

@jon-nyc said in The Anti-Semites reveal themselves.:

The checklist for the next 24 hours for her:

Delete and make private all social media
Get fired from Apple
Give lame apology
Update resume

jon-nyc

I don’t know she works for Apple in Istanbul. She may be just fine.

Jolly

In the spirit of the thread...Seems like a lot of Jews...Hate Jews...

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@jon-nyc said in The Anti-Semites reveal themselves.:

Fired?

Doctor Phibes

@Jolly said in The Anti-Semites reveal themselves.:

In the spirit of the thread...Seems like a lot of Jews...Hate Jews...

Maybe when it's Jews saying they don't agree with what Israel is doing, then it's no longer antisemitism?

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The Anti-Semites reveal themselves.