This is true, but we also would readily accept that the Nazi regime bore some substantial degree of responsibility for that massacre, just as it in our reality bore and continues to bear a substantial responsibility for the expulsion of the German communities of Eastern Europe. Those expulsions were appalling and unjust-- if not for Alli…
This is true, but we also would readily accept that the Nazi regime bore some substantial degree of responsibility for that massacre, just as it in our reality bore and continues to bear a substantial responsibility for the expulsion of the German communities of Eastern Europe. Those expulsions were appalling and unjust-- if not for Allied hypocrisy, they would have easily been recognized as acts of genocide-- but that's kind of what happens when you behave monstrously toward people.
Sounds like you got really caught up in the premise of Israel as actually being comparable in any way to Nazi Germany, a preposterous notion that I was pretending to be true simply because the kind of nonsense that ignorant or mendacious people tell themselves.
It was an analogy as far as the point he was making. It failed beyond that. No analogy is perfect, most are only good enough to make the point. The whiff of bad faith, as always, is coming from you.
I was just calling you on your diversionary tactics, but okay: if we "unpack" what you're saying, it is that, if people behave badly enough, *any* kind of retaliation is justified. Got it. I don't agree with that, but you're certainly not alone, as the many pro-Hamas rallies throughout the West amply illustrate.
Yes, you can totally tell that I think that something is justified, by my use of the word "unjust" to refer to it. Very curious piece of linguistic interpretation, I would call that (paraphrasing Douglas Adams here). I would also call it a lie.
This is true, but we also would readily accept that the Nazi regime bore some substantial degree of responsibility for that massacre, just as it in our reality bore and continues to bear a substantial responsibility for the expulsion of the German communities of Eastern Europe. Those expulsions were appalling and unjust-- if not for Allied hypocrisy, they would have easily been recognized as acts of genocide-- but that's kind of what happens when you behave monstrously toward people.
Sounds like you got really caught up in the premise of Israel as actually being comparable in any way to Nazi Germany, a preposterous notion that I was pretending to be true simply because the kind of nonsense that ignorant or mendacious people tell themselves.
Hmm. You made an analogy, and I unpacked it and showed that it failed. Now you're pretending to be mad at your own analogy?
I'm getting the distinct whiff of bad faith here.
It was an analogy as far as the point he was making. It failed beyond that. No analogy is perfect, most are only good enough to make the point. The whiff of bad faith, as always, is coming from you.
I was just calling you on your diversionary tactics, but okay: if we "unpack" what you're saying, it is that, if people behave badly enough, *any* kind of retaliation is justified. Got it. I don't agree with that, but you're certainly not alone, as the many pro-Hamas rallies throughout the West amply illustrate.
Yes, you can totally tell that I think that something is justified, by my use of the word "unjust" to refer to it. Very curious piece of linguistic interpretation, I would call that (paraphrasing Douglas Adams here). I would also call it a lie.