Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul, whose family was displaced by Israel, wrote about the ‘evils’ of Zionism, prompting a flurry of attacks from Tim Kaine, Abigail Spanberger, and other party colleagues.
Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul, whose family was displaced by Israel, wrote about the ‘evils’ of Zionism, prompting a flurry of attacks from Tim Kaine, Abigail Spanberger, and other party colleagues.
No it doesn’t make sense. I never pushed to you any “real” definition, I specifically talked about multiple definitions. I don’t understand what’s “weird”. If you’re touchy about the word, feel free to exit the discussion. Many words have multiple, often contradictory and historically loaded meanings: “christianity”, “socialism”, “honour”. What’s weird about talking about them?
Where the actual fuck did I do that?
The only time I mentioned the word “evil” was to say “the vast majority of zionists who mean something completely different than you, and something much more sinister and evil,”. I was referring to this: “Nearly half of Israelis support army killing all Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds. An overwhelming number of Israelis, including seculars, back the forced transfer of Palestinians from Gaza and Israel”. I think we can we agree that forced transfer of population, i.e., ethnic cleansing, is evil, right? I am not “defining people as evil”. I am saying that a majority Israelis define their zionism as including something sinister and evil: ethnic cleansing.
I already told you: “I personally don’t consider the word “zionist” to be a slur.” I don’t use it as an accusation. So I don’t know what to do with your defensiveness here.
If somebody was writing about the “evils” of socialism, I would actually have exactly the same complaint about it for exactly the same reason. I would actually fully expect people to have precisely Tim Kaine’s reaction to it, basically to say “Whoa WTF are you talking about, I am socialist, and I’m not evil.” That’s actually a pretty good example to explain what I am trying to clarify with you.
Christianity’s a little different… I think “honor” actually has enough of an agreed-upon definition that you wouldn’t need to get tangled up in the definition of “honor.” That’s actually another instructive example: Two people arguing about whether a third person “has honor” are unlikely to be unintentionally wrangling about “what does honor mean,” and so getting themselves confused about it in the same way that they might be if they’re arguing about “Zionism” or “socialism,” and so it’s more likely to be productive. They might disagree, but they won’t extensively go in circles about it. With these kind of broad and definition-varies-by-the-person definitions, you just have to be really careful with how you apply it and talk about it, especially when huge issues of good and evil are involved, or else you’re going to do material harm to people who are trying to help you, and make it more difficult for them to help you.
When you posted the article about “the ‘evils’ of Zionism” along with “Zionism has proven how evil our society can be” and “a supremacist ideology created to destroy and conquer everything and everyone in its way. This is Zionism.”
Again, he’s not wrong. I get what he’s saying, it is accurate. But you can understand how someone who thinks “Zionist = anyone who thinks Israel should be allowed to exist” could read that and then object to it. Right? Or no? I feel like you’re having a lot of trouble grasping simple points here.
Advanced reading comprehension: Why did I bring this up? I get that you don’t know what to do with it, but what point was I trying to make when bringing up accusations of someone being a Zionist that I’ve seen before? I’ve touched on it and why it is important a few different times.
Fwiw I read that as you apparently intended, and I think OP couldn’t allow for it and still support outrage for the “Top Democrats” complaints. Even though they apparently (sort of) agreed?
I got the impression no one ever really engaged them on why calling people evil Zionists would ever face pushback. I got the impression that’s the case for a lot of people raised by facebook, 4chan, and the exciting apps that now essentially make up “the whole world”.
Yeah. A lot of times it’s pretty simplistic thinking. Anything that sounds vaguely like you’re saying that Israel isn’t evil can just get shouted down without getting engaged with, and usually people will cheer for that reaction.
Also people don’t like to “lose” internet arguments whatever are the facts of the matter, and me being an unrepentant dickhead during the disagreement definitely doesn’t help make it easier to have the conversation. Whatever man
Alright, at this point I’ll disengage. Have a nice day.