vashti

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So your position (besides implying that I'm a cheerleader for Netanyahu) is that a good working definition of antisemitism is bad because people misuse it? What's your take on how to counter the very real antisemitism that exists in parts of the anti-Israel movement? Also, I'm sorry, but your quotation is obviously bullshit:

applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation

China is a democratic nation now? Saudi Arabia is a democratic nation? Come on. It's obvious what that means, and it should be obvious why holding Israel to a uniquely high standard among democratic nations, as the definition says, is antisemitic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, I thought that was it. The definition is clear that criticism of the Israeli government that's comparable to criticisms aimed at other governments isn't antisemitism. You should be able to criticise Israel in the same terms you criticise (e.g.) Russia and China, or for that matter America and the UK. But if you exclusively criticise Israel in virulent terms, or say that Israel is some sort of uniquely evil entity comparable to the Nazis, or imply that all Jews worldwide are agents of the Israeli state, or say Israel as a nation state should be wiped off the map—that's antisemitic.

This should all be pretty uncontroversial.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Zionists

It's okay, we know you mean Jews.

Is there a reason this article bashes (adjusts glasses, checks) the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in its opening para?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

She has accused him both of rape and of grooming her. What on earth do you think her punching him in the stomach while he forcibly deep throated her was supposed to be?

This has been highlighted in the news coverage.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Both child grooming and emotional and sexual assault are illegal in the UK, bizarre as this may seem to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Disconcertingly close to the truth tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, it was a chest freezer with one of those little filing cabinet locks. It genuinely never occurred to mum that her eight year old could pick it with her hairpin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I figured out one of those locks when I was eight. Used to unlock the freezer with a paperclip

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I'd never use Notepad. Download Notepad++, it's better in literally every way.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doesn't have formatting, unless Notepad has got really adventurous at some point in the last decade or two.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Slightly annoyed about this, as I do use Wordpad (it's lightweight and useful for quick notes that I want to mark up with bold and italic). I don't always want to watch Word or Libreoffice load for twenty to thirty seconds.

Shitty decision, happy to be Wordpad's one fan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So are Irish conditions different from conditions over the sea in Wales, or...?

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