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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point of an opinion piece is to express an opinion, ideally supported with an explanation.  If you'd prefer not to read opinions which differ from those you already hold, then by all means don't read them.  If you're open-minded, read and reflect.  You may not change your mind, or you might, but exposure to alternative perspectives is intellectually healthy; deliberately ignoring other points of view is intellectually dishonest - you don't have to agree with anyone else, but it's conducive to informed discourse to know why other people hold opinions different from your own.  [/quote]

What are you even talking about? Sure, healthy discourse about things like immigration, energy, and economic policies are great.

He is excusing away mass murder and starvation of a civilian population. His opinion is disgusting, vile, dehumanizing trash and shouldn't be printed in a national newspaper.[/quote]

His opinion is fundamentally a lie in every way.  Israel is conquering Gaza and slaughtering or removing all who live within.  He thinks it's justified, so he lies about it. I don't agree that Israel should be conquering Gaza, but I'd respect the Opinion Section for sharing that view.  I do not support the Opinion Editors' decision to let that trash grace the NYT's pages, though.

If you support truth, you cannot support the NYT, sadly.  [/quote]

An opinion is not a lie and cannot be.  Facts are facts; assignment of meaning to those facts is where opinion comes in.  Opining that Israel's response to Palestinian terror has been too harsh, or has been insufficiently harsh to prevent future recurrences, are opinions, not facts.

Conflating opinion with fact is where apologists for one side or the other go off the rails.    [/quote]

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