More strange and/or foul reactions

[Renauda]

Like Phibes, I have no issue with the physical annihilation of Hamas and its leadership. That would also include Salafist imams who stoke the fanatical cadres of Hamas through religious psychological corecion and bloodthirsty propaganda.

That does not equate to the physical extermination or ethnic cleansing of Arab Palestinians. There is no moral justification for either, both are indefensible and reprehensible.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

Let’s call it the Larry Solution, though Jolly has endorsed it repeatedly. Exterminating the Palestinians in Gaza.

TBH, along with deporting anybody who disagrees with the Iraq war, banning the Democrat Party, making Islam illegal, America transitioning to the metric system, and numerous other proposed solutions to problems facing us all, I typically don't take these suggestions seriously.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

Let’s call it the Larry Solution, though Jolly has endorsed it repeatedly. Exterminating the Palestinians in Gaza.

First my answer, then I'll try to unpack it.

My answer is, how they say it would be more important than what they say, and my opinion I believe would hinge on that. "Unfortunately I don't see a way towards a sustained peace without radical intervention, but I hope I'm wrong about that" would be entirely different from "LIGHT EM UP!!!!!!!" If they publicly crossed some kind of empathy and understanding threshold, yeah, I'd say unemployable.

But you said doctors. And the profession matters here. More generally, I'm quite experienced with professionals sharing crazy shit on social media channels intended to be used in a business capacity. I work at a Renaissance Faire. I buy from and have worked for several shop owners who share their alien abduction testimonials on Facebook. They send out public reminders on forums about leaving milk out for the Brownies at the start of the season. Crazy shit just comes with the territory. (Maybe they have those professions because they were indeed rendered unemployable?) Not so much for doctors, who you rely on for their empathy, understanding and reasoning.

But I also don't know to what extent my position would be valid. It's of course completely possible to be unempathetic towards Palestinians and still provide a sound diagnosis for seasonal allergies.

[jon-nyc]

@Doctor-Phibes said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

Let’s call it the Larry Solution, though Jolly has endorsed it repeatedly. Exterminating the Palestinians in Gaza.

TBH, along with deporting anybody who disagrees with the Iraq war, banning the Democrat Party, making Islam illegal, America transitioning to the metric system, and numerous other proposed solutions to problems facing us all, I typically don't take these suggestions seriously.

No doubt these physicians losing their jobs would say the same thing about their tweets of the moment.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

@Doctor-Phibes said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

Let’s call it the Larry Solution, though Jolly has endorsed it repeatedly. Exterminating the Palestinians in Gaza.

TBH, along with deporting anybody who disagrees with the Iraq war, banning the Democrat Party, making Islam illegal, America transitioning to the metric system, and numerous other proposed solutions to problems facing us all, I typically don't take these suggestions seriously.

No doubt these physicians losing their jobs would say the same thing about their tweets of the moment.

Sure, some of the commentary here has been pretty nasty over the years. There's a touch of irony associated with the statement 'The Democrats are all modern-day fascists and should be lined up and shot!'

And then we liberals are informed that we're the haters. If I took it seriously, I'd probably have stopped posting here, as a number of others did.

However, I think there's a difference when the physicians are celebrating actual murders that have just occurred.

[bachophile]

Check out, or follow if you dare, Syrian girl ( based in Australia by the way)

[George K]

[Doctor Phibes]

[bachophile]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maram_Susli

[Renauda]

@bachophile

From the WiKi link:

She has published in the Duginist Journal of Eurasian Affairs…

That alone is enough for me, thank you.

[Doctor Phibes]

She looks like Syria's answer to Milo Yiannopoulos.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

Serious question, I’d like all to weigh in.

If publicly pushing the ‘river to sea’ message should render her unemployable as she’s a threat to Jewish patients, what about a physician who advocates the Jolly solution on their social media?

Whoa, wait a minute. You are starting with a false premise. As far as I can tell, nobody was dismissed for promoting “From the River to the Sea”. They were dismissed for celebrating, promoting, and glorifying the murders, beheadings, rapes, and tortures of over 1200 innocent children, men, and women. They are rejoicing in the savage beheading of a grandmother, whose killers used the woman’s own phone to video the killing and then posted the video to the woman’s Facebook account and sharing it to her friends and family via messenger. They referred to this as a glorious day and a good start. That’s why they were dismissed. And quite frankly, anybody that celebrates and revels in that butchery is either insane or has no place living in a modern western liberal nation.

[George K]

Speaking of "From the River to the Sea"....

https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad

The endodontist from Boston was fired for tearing down posters of kidnapping victims.

[George K]

Have we reached a point where the pendulum of "cancel culture" has swung too far to the opposite end?

[jon-nyc]

Cancel culture swung too far in 2020 at the latest.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

Cancel culture swung too far in 2020 at the latest.

Of course it did. My question is whether the swing back is too extreme.

[jon-nyc]

We’re not witnessing a swing back, we’re witnessing it becoming a bipartisan pastime.

[jon-nyc]

We’ve always had “cancel culture” in the sense that there were always things you could espouse that would get you kicked out of institutions.

What changed in 2020 (starting earlier than that, to be sure) is that a small ideological minority got significant control of the “institutional overton window” (if I may coin a phrase) and started canceling people for espousing opinions that had significant, even majority support.

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

We’re not witnessing a swing back, we’re witnessing it becoming a bipartisan pastime.

Cue “both sides are equal” strawman response in 5…4…3…