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You know that you're siding with the Israeli right on this one? I just like to let you know when you're further to the right than me.
June 01, 2021 at 11:39
I've already said I don't care if X is allowed to use some roads while Y is allowed to use others near checkpoints. No one is building roads in other ...
June 01, 2021 at 11:25
Ethnically cleanse as in murder? Or move? Was in ethnic cleansing when Israel forced Israelis to move out of Gaza in 2005?
June 01, 2021 at 11:23
I have no idea what you're talking about. We're talking about the use of separate roads, right? Near checkpoints? To speed up the process? I said I wo...
June 01, 2021 at 11:15
Yes, Jews being ethnically cleansed from Arab lands and repeatedly subject to massacres in Palestine before the existence of Israel is utterly irrelev...
June 01, 2021 at 11:13
I honestly wouldn't mind if it were in Egypt or something and it was near a border and they just let the Egyptian citizens speed through quicker. It w...
June 01, 2021 at 11:12
Jews have lived in the region for thousands of years, continuously. Way, way before Israel. Jewish populations have been ethnically cleansed from Arab...
June 01, 2021 at 11:10
You're dropping the earlier discussion because you just don't know. You need to make an effort to learn the history of the demographics in that area b...
June 01, 2021 at 11:08
Which sector of the WB are you talking about? Or are you talking about all of it? Why does all of the WB necessarily belong to the Palestinians? What ...
June 01, 2021 at 11:05
No because Israel is its own country. Israel doesn't build settlements in other Arab countries.
June 01, 2021 at 10:58
look at the leadership, look a the heads of business. look at the power circles.
June 01, 2021 at 10:47
take 2 seconds to understand the intricacies of japan's society and how difficult it is for non-japanese to understand and you might begin to learn. n...
June 01, 2021 at 10:46
when did i ever say this??? in any case if we started actually applying attention to muslim on muslim oppression the range of topics covered would be ...
June 01, 2021 at 10:44
nice, well i guess all i gotta do is get that full japanese citizenship and ill be 100% japanese and ready to succeed over there. it's all just a piec...
June 01, 2021 at 10:43
yeah, and japan clearly isn't for the japanese people, italy couldn't possibly be for the italians ... clearly no other state does this.
June 01, 2021 at 10:14
oh these people know who they are. they're just too far outside the overton window to productively engage, but occasionally we'll hurl insults at each...
June 01, 2021 at 09:46
I've never denied this. If we could press a button and eliminate ethnic histories there'd certainly be some not outlandish case for doing so, but in t...
June 01, 2021 at 09:09
For some people they'd rather have Jews perpetually at risk of massacre or death than to have their own homeland because that would be "racist." The v...
June 01, 2021 at 09:07
I don't know too much about those smaller massacres, you'll have to enlighten me on the history there. Where and when did these smaller massacres take...
May 31, 2021 at 19:42
Probably not, no, but why can't they go to Palestine? In hindsight its all clear the mess we're in but the 40s and 50s were different times and jews w...
May 31, 2021 at 14:35
Are you going to tell holocaust survivors in 1945 that they can't go to Israel? The one place where jews aspire to be ruled by other jews and not risk...
May 31, 2021 at 14:28
There was nothing to go back to. Virtually everything was destroyed or stolen. The European Jews had to seek lives elsewhere whether it was in the US,...
May 31, 2021 at 14:00
Yeah, under Judaka's ideas there would just be no Jewish people or Jewish identity. I've already been over this with Judaka and I don't feel like reha...
May 31, 2021 at 13:50
Every culture or ethnicity tells itself stories and through these stories or histories we come to understand ourselves and the other. Ethnic histories...
May 31, 2021 at 11:39
Yeah, that's cool. I was watching a youtube video today where they interviewed a bunch of asexual people and the majority of them said that they did n...
May 31, 2021 at 01:07
Our ethnic identities help ground us and allow us to relate to others better. Having an ethnic identity to a considerable extent makes us an authority...
May 30, 2021 at 22:55
Do you honestly dislike events where people talk about or present their own cultures? I can't imagine thinking that way. I love learning about where o...
May 30, 2021 at 22:43
Yeah, basically. These things do matter though: I don't think you'd like it very much if you had a disability that was repeatedly portrayed in books a...
May 30, 2021 at 22:34
It's a mix of both. Jews were similarly being expelled and dispossessed of their property in Arab lands. It was very difficult, heated, chaotic times....
May 30, 2021 at 22:15
There's a huge difference between one country just hating all minorities as opposed to just having an issue with one minority group in particular due ...
May 30, 2021 at 21:46
Do stereotypes or prejudices qualify as 'oppression' to you at all? You really don't think that a standard, like a beauty standard, for instance... ca...
May 30, 2021 at 21:16
I'm just going by the way that I've seen it used (generally by leftists) so I'm going along with that. The left does make a point though...is it fair ...
May 30, 2021 at 20:55
Just a quick aside, have you seen this sweet JBP mix? Anyhow, I'm broadly defining 'oppression' as injustice, but it could also just be anything that ...
May 30, 2021 at 20:13
a) Yes, I agree here. The Arab-Israeli issue is an ethno-religious problem and persists along ethno-religious lines. b) I would like to know who Israe...
May 30, 2021 at 20:00
Good call - I'm reading Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem right now and it's an amazing account on this phenomenon. She makes the point that these people...
May 30, 2021 at 18:13
Even the "weak" have responsibility and can be atrocious, sometimes even rivaling levels of the "strong" abusers -- Jewish policemen during WWII, for ...
May 30, 2021 at 17:20
What would you like to talk about in particular: The original birth of Israel (which the Arabs consider annexation)? The expansion of '48? '67? A curr...
May 30, 2021 at 14:11
Your analysis here is accurate. The problem stems from the Independence War of '47-'48 when David Ben-Gurion expelled some of the Arab communities in ...
May 30, 2021 at 13:56
Do you consider fighting oppression as something that's more about changing other people's attitudes, or do you see anything in yourself or your peers...
May 30, 2021 at 13:18
I think there's a strong case to be made that being low SMV or just being socially undesirable in general is a form of oppression by society (as well ...
May 30, 2021 at 13:15
Majors holidays that we'd lose off the top of my head if we abandoned ethnic history: Passover, Hanukkah, Sukkot, Purim. We'd also lose all the Jewish...
May 30, 2021 at 12:02
The problem is that the culture is derived from the ethnic history. Take away the ethnic history and the whole structure collapses. There is simply no...
May 30, 2021 at 01:50
May 30, 2021 at 00:48
Standards exclude certain types. Whether it's standards for a job, beauty standards, standards for a parent, for a student... all of these roles carry...
May 30, 2021 at 00:35
You can condemn cultural practices, but when you say You're asking millions of people to renounce a large part of their identities and how they unders...
May 29, 2021 at 22:47
would you deny the existence of a group such as, say, the han chinese? do uyghurs exist in your world? it doesn't matter because they exist in our wor...
May 29, 2021 at 21:31
The blockade and the checkpoints are for national security. I'm aware that this is every abuser's excuse, but let me ask you this: If people from nort...
May 29, 2021 at 21:08
It's actually a surprisingly big deal since humans have an unfortunate tendency to demonize others (the Jews know this all too well), and by singling ...
May 29, 2021 at 19:42
Why is oppression only about access to political and economic resources? What about the disabled? They get oppressed by people's preconceived attitude...
May 29, 2021 at 16:50
Is Israel the worst human rights abuser on the planet? Because thats the impression you'd get from the UN. Organizations like the UN need to be able t...
May 29, 2021 at 16:11