During the Holocaust, various Jewish community leaders were essentially placed in charge of large, mostly Jewish communities known as ghettos under Na...
Cis people generally don't care too much and don't want to rock the boat. Ultimately, we're social beings who are just looking to get along and be acc...
I recently became a theist after reading Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. The book fully lays bare just how normal, healthy secular moral reason...
The way that I approach it the purpose of morality is first and foremost to inform concrete, practical action; not to set a perfect, flawless starting...
Taking "human flourishing" as one's main goal is so ripe for exploitation. Dictators massacre thousands and do it in the name of human flourishing on ...
Yeah I was going to put this one on my list too but I thought it would be too obvious. It's just become such a universal staple in the field so why ev...
I recently finished Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem which was amazing. I remember for some reason in college I brushed off Arendt for one reason or ano...
Yeah, had Germany been dismantled after WWI there would have likely been no WWII. Russia, if my memory serves me right, advocated for dismantling Germ...
Hitler's earlier speeches were all about making Germany out to be the victim and it's that narrative plus his oratory skills that catapulted his rise ...
I'm just granting him this point that after WWI the treaty of versailles was unjust and unfairly penalized Germany. There are obviously different side...
We both agree that the Germans were oppressed, i.e. were victims, which to my understanding means that they are cannot be blamed for just trying to ge...
So are WWII & the Holocaust essentially the fault of the Allies because of the Versailles treaty? The Versailles treaty treated the Germans terribly a...
It is 2021, Zionism has already been realized. It does not matter if other thinkers had other ideas because a state has been established. Borders chan...
It depends on whose narrative we go by. You're talking with me, so you're going to get the Jewish narrative. If we talked to a pro-Palestinian Arab he...
Anti-Zionism in 2021 is straight-up bizarre. Zionism is nothing more than the idea that Jews need a homeland in the region, and since this has already...
There's genocide everywhere. There's racism everywhere. The entire world is mud, so why should I go out of my way and take up my own time to try to co...
Your focus on factual correctness here is masturbatory. As long as you continue to support (which is effectively the same as refusing to condemn) the ...
Is it ever hard to function when the entire world around you is so unrepentantly racist and genocidal? Is it difficult being the only good one? Does i...
No it doesn't and it's obvious you just perceive Israel as Nazi Germany or something along those lines and I don't have the time or effort to dispel t...
I shouldn't have to say this because it should be widely known but Israel does not arrest non-violent peace activists for trying to make connections w...
Damn straight, it's all about who you engage. I have had good conversations here with other posters and even some of the posters who I'd consider less...
It was actually really funny, I gave him an article about how Hamas arrested & imprisoned 3 Palestinian grassroots peace activists for talking with Is...
If we are to have a productive conversation on this subject it starts with you condemning Hamas and their methods. Until that happens this discussion ...
We've been through this conversation a billion times and I don't feel like rehashing things with you for a 1 billion + 1 time. Have our discussions on...
Yeah, I did get sucked into the shit storm a bit, and it's interesting to reflect and think back "why did this person have this affect on me?" Thinkin...
I'll admit that there has been that "conflict for the sake of conflict" element in this thread but I don't see my current discussion here with @"fdrak...
I must have not got the memo that Zionism includes provocative marches and threats. All Zionism is is a commitment to a Jewish homeland in the region....
Oooh, you edited it from "Jewish murderers" to "Israeli murderers" -- why did you do that?? Why revert back, I'm interested. Why not phrase it like th...
Yes. It's a complex chain of events. You're comparing Israel and Palestine to children right now. The level of arrogance is unbelievably. The term "be...
In the case of the resistance fighters all that violence was carried out in response to blatant Nazi aggression, but what was the initial act of Israe...
Why am I angry? It's not that I'm angry, but maybe a little perturbed. In a sentence, I'm perturbed at the inability or unwillingness of various poste...
Oh tell me about the "facts on the ground" from your intensive, hands on experience in Israel. Show me when this has gone to court. Are Christians bei...
Yeah, just by being there Israel is complicit. They have staked their claim. It is worth mentioning though that the Arab states themselves are in a co...
I really hope not. I guess I place my hope in grassroots movements; the two groups have to learn to live together, there is no other option. You might...
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