Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Violet_Crumble
(36,078 posts)I don't like it when either Israelis or Palestinians are likened to Nazis, and I've always wished there was an auto-delete function available to deal with any godwinising so I didn't have to look at it when I visited DU. I have this 'meh. Not again.' reaction to one or two folk who love their godwinising, but you are someone who I don't expect to see it from, and I'm far harsher on those I get on with that those folk I don't...
I think both you and Ken are good blokes, and what you say you see of him isn't what I see, and visa versa. What I think the problem is is that both of you have such different posting and thinking processes that nothing connects and there's lots of misunderstandings and it all turns into a bit of a mess. There's only one person in this group who I'd read and go 'I don't agree with anything you said, but goddam, we're like cyber-twins coz we write the same way even if I write far more longer and pointless waffling sentences!' Unfortunately they had a kidlet and don't post anymore
But what I don't want to see, and that goes for anyone in this group I have a soft spot for (y'all know who you are) is posting some nasty and bigoted stuff to try to prove some point because they think someone else has done it. C'mon, we're better than that! Yes, it'd be so fucking tempting to react to a hypothetical DUer who justifies bigotry against Muslims by pulling the exact same 'logic' on them in reverse when it comes to Jews. But you think that for a second, and then cringe a bit at the thought of not only the instant PPR, but having to type the hateful shit that you actually find revolting yrself, and you end up giving it a miss. I was a bit blindsided by yr question aimed at me that I know you know full well the answer to already, seeing as how you and me have been around in this forum for years and you know how I feel? You know how I feel about things like comparing Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto, and I've been very outspoken in the old I/P forum about it...
Can I ask you that in future I'm never going to be caught out with you posting some ugly stuff that I know you don't actually believe yrself? I enjoy reading yr posts when yr talking about how things are in Israel, but I don't enjoy them when I encounter a clanger like that one. Leave that stuff to the trolls, and get more value out of being informative about stuff on the ground...