Granted this conversation is between us, but it isn't exclusively (or primarily) about us. When I speak of ethics trying to put lipstick on a pig, I'm...
I can throw lots more words at this, but I doubt it will clarify much. One can wear many hats and walk between various language communities. When spea...
What is somewhat funny about that video is how they are a touch more pious/apologetic than I am, but don’t majorly deviate from any of my themes. Even...
I wouldn’t call it bullshit, but I suspect that “truth” as Frankfurt meant it makes a bad bedfellow with normative claims. It is in that context which...
Again, this is a theoretically a thread about the concept of religion rather than the particulars of Jewish hairsplitting, so I don’t want to go too f...
But it isn't semantics. The core/central ideas and practices are not found in the Bible (books of Moses or otherwise). You can't hold up a book, say "...
I think you'll find that the centrality of the Bible(s) is a modern imposition and largely ahistorical. Why you think that the Bible is a life guide, ...
It is tough to take comments like this seriously when there are active Jewish and Christianity communities that do just that and still find the religi...
You'll find that most people aren't interested in discussing modern religions, but only the ones principally concerned with Jesus with the occasional ...
This is a good example of the leap I am discussing between states-of-affairs and facts. What is is - the state of affairs. What 'is'? Those are facts ...
Not that I agree that you have to be religious to understand religion, but I do think that explication devoid of purpose makes it harder to get at wha...
I just think that is question begging. The article is about what a concept can be including a non-essentialist concept. So we can agree that religion ...
We cannot make explicit the bounds of when a proper invocation of religion is made, however we can generally demarcate the territory. You and I may no...
Fortunately this is an ethics post and not a law enforcement one. So do we arrest a kid that has had his sexual expectations set by culture in the abj...
And this is responsive to why you aren't a mereological nihilist how? Facts are socially constructed whether about social relations or relations of at...
Pretend for a moment, if you will, that we aren't talking about religion and instead are talking about government. One day you are born - from that mo...
One can describe how we use language (or maybe just gesticulate), but that doesn't account for WHY we use language. Having an abstracted conversation ...
Also, there is a really good article referenced at the end (yes, it starts off a bit beneath the likely reader). Religion is not a thing What work do ...
Somehow you tagged me without my getting a notification. There is lots of great stuff in that article. It is difficult to land on just one part. Why? ...
Mocking what you don’t understand isn’t a good look. Wanting to end apartheid because you read it in a fortune cookie makes you poorly reasoned, but n...
No, the Zionists have to engage in apartheid to create a JEWISH state. It sort of goes with the name. Jews, however, don’t have to be Zionists. And Je...
A perfectly reasonable response, obvious though it may be. It is basically the only defense I know of regarding the end-apartheid folk that doesn’t ma...
I don’t care about your accusations; I’m gesturing towards the history of Zionism and how everyone had it stuffed down their throats that being anti-Z...
Again, your reading needs work. No one gives a shit if they do it to the Jews (anti-Semitism), they only care if apartheid ends (by whomever on whomev...
What I am responding to is what is likely to happen in the absence of Israeli apartheid. It isn’t not apartheid. It is just not Jewish apartheid. Your...
except the Palestinians disavowed the Oslo accords. Read what they have said since Oslo and in direct response to it. The PLO has not adopted what Ara...
Seppo, grow up. The Palestinians who 180 wants to free can speak and have spoken for themselves in this regard. Go read what they have said. Hamas and...
Provide your sources and evidence. It isn’t hard. Last government of Palestine that was not the colonialist scum was the ottoman caliphate. Both the P...
You haven’t distressed me, you’ve just demonstrated what has been the case for 1,900 years. The West are anti-Semites and incapable of self-reflection...
Funny, I thought single sentences were for the ordinary language philosophers that feel the need to number them as they blather on. But sure, KISS - g...
2+2=4? Good demonstration of advocating for a cure that is worse than the disease. Childish but for the fact that most children understand that some i...
You are better than this. Here, let me say it again, I am an anti-Zionist. I think the existence of Israel as conceived is contrary to my notions of l...
Because despite your general erudition, you have absolutely no answer to the question and the obviousness of the problem imposes itself on you (you kn...
No. To defeat anti-semitism, recognize they structures of anti-semitism and try to dismantle them. Combine that with taking personal responsibility fo...
You laugh and the Palestinians and Israelis go on dying in an intractable situation that is exacerbated by foreign do gooders that can’t manage to pla...
Just say it. End Jewish apartheid now and restore Muslim apartheid. No one will hold it against you. It is abundantly clear from your position, but it...
Right. Because the Palestinians don’t want to be in charge of the entire land and impose a muslim state. That is just an invention of the Zionists. I ...
Have you read the history books? A displaced people (who everyone seems to think are europeans despite 1,500 years of being driven from every place th...
No one is blaming anything. The Zionist movement can be definitionally apartheid as far as I am concerned. Any nationstate founded on being the state ...
You still seem to miss it - Israel cannot stop apartheid and continue to exist. The result of Israel ceasing to exist isn’t the end of apartheid, it i...
Sucks for whom? The Palestinians? Yup. Anyone else? You’ve already seen the statistics about how bad the Palestinians are in extracting blood from the...
Or if you prefer, my critique was about whether the failure to include Israel in the discussion as an entity with interests was textbook anti-semitism...
Again, no one said it was. And again, my criticism of 180’s comment was never about how right Israel was, but about whether Israel could ever critique...
Which? That Israel as a non-Apartheid state on their definition is an impossibility? Go ahead, explain how Israel can exist without being an apartheid...
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