Why we fight

[Crunchy Frog]

43. By GOI, are you referring to the government of Israel?

In any event, I would say that your mind reading skills are not all that sharp and that is not an accurate description of my beliefs. It sounds like you're saying that you don't think I'm an anti-semite, but I'm not sure, as I often have some difficulty deciphering your prose.

There is a good reason that I had you on ignore on the old DU. You are not a person that I wish to engage with. I don't believe that the two of us have much of anything in common in our pictures of the world, and frankly, I percieve your posting style as hostile and combative, and with a great tendency to mischaracterize things that others say who disagree with you. I've watched other posters engage in "discussion" with you, and it looked to me like they were banging their heads against a brick wall.

I don't have you on ignore now simply because the ignore system on DU3 is different, and I would not be able to see the replies to your posts either, even if they're by people whose posting I respect.

However, I do wish to engage with you as little as possible, and for that reason, do not wish to get into a deep discussion of what my beliefs actually are and how they differ from your characterization of them. Based on what I've seen of your posting history, trying to share my actual beliefs with you and engage you in serious discussion would be an act of futility on my part, and would simply open me up to more mischaracterizations, mind reading attempts, and things that appear to me to be subtle accusations of anti-semitism. I'm just not up for it.

Can we just leave it as "no, I'm not calling you an anti-semite" or "yes I am calling you an anti-semite" from you, and a "no, that is not an accurate characterization of my views which are too complex and nuanced for me to go into in detail with you" from me?