The Real timschochet

I’m pretty skeptical of that number but even if true, there are 1.4 million Jewish children in America, the majority in NYC so yeah it’s a tiny number even so. The Israelis have treated the Palestinians poorly at times. To the best of my knowledge they have not engaged in genocide, that word seems to get thrown around kind of liberally these days. Actual genocide is a pretty rare thing (let’s hope it stays that way.)

Yeah that was a terrible bill.

Lol it doesn’t call for that either.

Yes. And so just looked it up. So you’re referring to some weird practice by a tiny number of ultra orthodox Jews. The vast majority of Jews don’t behave that way. I went under the knife (though I don’t really remember it.) I had never heard of the practice you’re referring to but apparently it does exist, somewhere. Not representative.

Is there any evidence that any students at these campuses actually said anything that calls for genocide? “From the river to the sea” is not a genocidal comment. I would hate to think that these deans lost their jobs for a theoretical question.

Where are you getting your information? I’m almost scared to ask. No doubt it’s some crazy Nazi forum like Stormfront right? Anyhow, the mohel uses a special knife, not their teeth.

They don’t.

Rabbis don’t perform bris. They’re done by mohels and they don’t use their teeth. Rabbis bless the action. And why should you care anyhow? It’s Jewish babies. In your eyes they’re already guilty.

It may be via your mother but it ain’t via MSNBC. Nobody there has ever called Israel “genocidal murderers”- why are you making crap up?

You should try it sometime, it would be better hygiene for you, because we’re circumcised.

Republicans are supposedly attempting to tie Ukraine funding to securing the border. But it’s BS because the Republicans are insisting on extreme measures on the border which they know Democrats will nevet accept. Republicans in Congress have no interest whatsoever in fixing the border or dealing with illegal immigration; they want to keep it going as an issue to use against Democrats. And now it gives them a ready made excuse not to fund Ukraine (since they know that the isolationism their base is for is not so popular with the public as a whole.)

This is shtick at this point right?

Well we love California! So too bad! Mazel tov!

Yeah but MY lists are awesome and completely objective: Also unpublished….

I know plenty of Palestinians and I guarantee you it’s not true. But understand: even if you were correct about 99% of Palestinians, the 1% that disagrees would still make your statement a bigoted one.

I never said I was. The MAGA crowd has turned what used to be centrism into liberalism. I voted for Mitt Romney in 2012. My positions haven’t changed much. But now I’m grouped as a leftist because I reject the Trump idiocy.

I don’t like the answers the deans gave, but it wasn’t a simple question at all. For example: 1. is “Death to all Jews!” hate speech? Yes and it shouldn’t be allowed on a college campus, and anyone who says this should be expelled. 2. is “From the River to the Sea” hate speech? No. It’s a radical political position, but it does NOT mean genocide and it should be publicly allowed. I suppose that in our current intolerant climate regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which in the last few months has become so reminiscent of the Red Scare in the early 1950s, I would have been fired too.

This is a bigoted statement. There is no large group of peoples who uniformly want anything. It’s as idiotic as saying white people like mayonnaise. The majority of Palestinians want a greater Palestinian state in what is now Israel. But even that is not a universal attitude. And it doesn’t mean genocide.

Except that you’re misapplying it. Let me show you how: 1. Criticizing transgenederism doesn’t make you a homophobe, but if you spend a lot of your time obsessing about this issue like it’s one of the most important problems that our society faces, chances are you’re homophobic. 2. Criticizing Muslims doesn’t make you an Islamophobe, but when you group them together and propose restrictive laws or immigration restrictions based on the religion of Islam then chances are you’re an Islamophobe. 3. Criticizing historically disenfranchised groups doesn’t make you a racist, but when you start using skin color as a qualifier for negative behavior, chances are you are a racist. See the difference?

Yes I know. I generally support the establishment but this is unfortunate. However I don’t think there is any “plan”. It’s an emotional, almost instinctual reaction to what happened in October, built up over many many years. Theres no deliberate scheme. It’s also, IMO, part of the right’s larger yearning for both moral clarity and an almost Calvinistic desire to condemn anyone who doesn’t view things in the same black and white fashion.

I don’t know anything of the kind. I also believe that hate speech is not protected free speech outside of the privacy of one’s home. Nor is incitement to violence.

It just comes naturally I guess.

Your definition of cancel culture “when someone has done nothing wrong” is unlikely. Though there have been some notable instances when somebody is unjustly canceled, in most cases the canceling was well deserved.

“From the River to the Sea” is a controversial phrase which I disagree with because it means the end or destruction of the State of Israel to be replaced by a Palestinian state. But it does not mean the genocide of the Jewish people ala the Holocaust, and the fact that people are conflating the two meanings is lazy and leads to a lot of bad assumptions. It’s important to note, as context, that the largest part of the current Israeli government, the Likud party, (of which Netanyahu is a lifelong member) has a very similar chant as part of its charter: “from the river to the sea Israeli sovereignty”: in other words, a greater Israel over the whole of Palestine, which reasonable Palestinians can and do regard as calling for the genocide of the Palestinian people. Again this is a lazy assumption. But you can see the confusion.

Thank you. 1. I’ll have to look into the Nick Fuentes issue, don’t know anything about that. 2. So far as I know anyone who has been prosecuted for Jan 6 either committed an act of violence or at least broke into the Capitol Building illegally with the intent of disrupting the government at work (which is a felony.) There are no freedom of speech issues involved. 3. The FBI investigated parents and others who made threats of violence on school board members. That is the FBI’s proper role. 4. Big tech is a private concern so there are no freedom of speech issues at play. If the government attempted to censor big tech that is a different issue but I don’t think there is any evidence of this. 5. The anti—abortion protestors who get arrested are the ones who harass women and workers who enter abortion clinics. Again this is proper and there are no freedom of speech issues at play.