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Gtfo with your antisemitic dog whistles. People are finally starting to see your nasty little worldview. |
How are you able to "wring the towel"? You are just a human, you do not have divine power, in which world circumstances change just by your declaring curses. Your passion does not equal power. |
Reading is fundamental. Re-read what was written … “doing my own little part”. |
Protect? Protect? From what? Words they don’t like to hear? |
which is shouting at people...so effective |
Protection from the anti-Semitism described. If you don't agree, that's fine. No one is looking for your approval. |
So … words. What a joke. |
Who is shouting? That’s hardly what I’m doing - in fact, what I’m doing is surgical and hardly akin to shouting. |
Your putting words in my mouth, no pun intended. Review the reports of the anti Semitism for yourself. |
If you were speaking true facts and not just relying on emotion and desire, you would have to engage in rhetorical surgery, parsing words looking for that you think are gotchas. No one in human history, ever, has changed their mind or has been convinced of truth because of rhetorical tricks. |
When you rely on gotchas, loaded questions, or clever framing, you are not persuading anyone through logic. You are trying to provoke a reaction, and that immediately puts people on the defensive. Because most beliefs are tied to identity and values, emotional manipulation does not open minds. It closes them. The moment someone feels pushed, cornered, or steered, they stop engaging with the substance and start protecting themselves. What looks like a logical win is usually just an emotional standoff. These tactics also signal that the goal is to argue, not to understand. You might make someone go quiet or back off, but that is not persuasion. It is disengagement. People do not revise their views publicly after being emotionally pressured. They harden their position because conceding would mean admitting they were played. You are aiming for emotional leverage while mistaking it for logic. But emotions like resentment, pride, and fear are exactly what make people resist change. If the outcome you are seeing is silence or frustration, that is not a changed mind. It is proof the door has closed, not that you reasoned your way through it. |
You are grossly failing to understand what I’m saying here, it appears. Oh well, it matters not. I’ll continue to make my own contribution to addressing what I consider to be the #1 global issue of my generation, for the sake of generations to follow. |
I understand what you are saying, I just know you are wrong. There is not artful use of words you can "surgically" use to force someone to agree with you. You consider destroying Israel the #1 issue--to me, that is selfishness--everyone in the world needs to be concerned with Palestine's inability to stop starting battles it can't win. |
As usual, you are drawn like a moth to the white knight flame any time Israel is mentioned here. And as usual, your reading comprehension skills fall short. |
| As far as I can tell, the settlement agreement calls for a form of systemic control of a private institution (Pomona College) by three other private institutions (the Brandeis Center, Hillel International and the ADL) — irrespective of the situational judgment of the primary institution and of the overarching protections of the U.S. Constitution — presumably in perpetuity. I can't see this as anything but a scary development. |