A great many street-level leftists are confused, sentimental, and completely uninformed. They’re electoral deadweight keeping criminal organizations like the Democratic Party in power. They’re the comparatively benign ones.
I think a lot of leftists either haven’t thought their positions through completely or are blinded by sentimentality and emotionalism.
The problem with Hamas and the Palestinians now is that sentimentiality and emotionalism have become the functional equivalent of and ally to anti-Semitism.
She really casts a whole new light on the phrase “useful idiot.”
a lot of leftists either haven’t thought their positions through completely…
You could have stopped right there.
The woman is incredibly naive and ignorant and lives in a utopian fantasy world, but she is not a malevolent person, unlike the pro-Hamas demonstrators we see here in the USA and elsewhere or college presidents and academics that would justify and support the extermination of all Jews.
She is simply a peace-nik totally divorced from reality.
Unfortunately, folks like her, because of her actions, aid and abet Hamas and their supporters .
Pretty sure I’ve told the story here before, but it would have been a long time ago. I knew a girl, post high school, who did not know which side won the civil war. She would go on to become a fervent Bernie Sanders supporter. My guess is she still doesn’t know which side won the civil war.
Hamas is evil it is the Old Gods in new bottles
“Friends (and enemies for that matter), I present to you the modern USA electorate.”
— M J R
—–
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
— Winston Churchill
—–
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
— H. L. Mencken
I believe in the wisdom of crowds, but only because I desperately NEED to believe in the wisdom of crowds.
She did stop and think about the questions, looking at it from the Israeli side. I would be interested to know whether she had ended up being persuaded or not.
johnj
Now that you mention it, I wonder if she went home and tried to think about the issues the guy presented. She must know she had some obvious blank spots about which it had never occurred to her to think. I wonder…..
I wonder if she went home and tried to think about the issues the guy presented.
I’m thinking, yes, but then she saw something shiny.
My first memorised Great Man quote is this one, thought to be a paraphrase of the unknown original.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” —Edmund Burke
It challenges us to summon courage and face down evil. It is not a call for passionate and promiscuous intensity.
It is also not incompatible with moderation and observing the Aristotelian mean.
Not very evil can or should be addressed. The wise woman or man will pick their battles, and not waste time with inessential ones.
Just wondering if there’s a language barrier at work here…..
I can’t help but noticing: Anytime there is a news story about the Israel / Palestine / Hamas conflict, I notice that most of the reporting is touching on the human impact story. There is little battlefield analysis, almost no live coverage of the conflict, no troop counts, so on. It’s all human interest. And the human interest story is all geared toward evincing an emotional reaction. Almost none of it is geared toward actually informing the viewer about an intellectual focus on the conflict. They’re all about the participants feeling ‘angry’ and / or ‘fearful’ and so on.
What to make of this? Is this conditioning to encourage viewers to consider only these aspects of the war, the emotional responses that one should have toward armed conflict? The sympathy one should be feeling toward the residents affected? No intellectual work done to get to the origins of the conflict, no distancing to allow impartial and objective analysis? I’m a little disgusted by it all, quite frankly. But glad to see the Israeli’s go about their business dismantling Hamas. I hope they continue to follow through.
What to make of this?
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1. They don’t employ many reporters anymore
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2. They’re hoping to poach viewers from the Hallmark Channel.
Obama. No surprise. It’s his gig. He’s always in the enemies’ camp.
that is how al jazeera legitimated the cause of al Queda, as did the British press did the IRA, the band of Brigands who took the Kaiser then the Soviets coin,
Obama was just a tool for various parties like Soros like Prince Talal, who reinvented himself as some great reformer with publicists like Khashoggi, who had served Bin Laden, before him, Talal underwrote many of the University chairs in GeorgeTown, in Cambridge in Morningside heights,
Aggie, regarding all human impact / no live coverage of the conflict, that’s why I turn to ILTV, particularly their “News Flash” 3 minute YouTube videos to get the action apart from emotions, at least from the Israeli side.
There are many other sites, such as Raptor News on YouTube that also cover the action but which appear to be over-the-top hyperbole / wishful thinking of what has actually transpired, e.g. “flooding the tunnels” days / weeks before they actually did, and “Sinwar captured”, etc. So one has to have a bit of Spidey-sense in this propaganda war.
I used to know a woman who was crying on August 6. I asked her why she was crying, and she said she was crying for all of the people who died in Japan on that date when the USA dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. I asked her if she also cried on December 7, and she gave me a blank look. I said, “You know, December 7, the day when Japan attacked the United States, and killed a bunch of Americans. There are still a thousand dead American sailors at the bottom of Pearl Harbor.” Needless to say, she didn’t make any association with the fact that Japan started things rolling at Pearl Harbor that ended up with Japan getting nuked. That naîve woman also didn’t know where Pearl Harbor is or what happened there. Unfortunately, there are a lot of loons like that around, and even worse, they get to vote.
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A great many street-level leftists are confused, sentimental, and completely uninformed. They’re electoral deadweight keeping criminal organizations like the Democratic Party in power. They’re the comparatively benign ones.
I think a lot of leftists either haven’t thought their positions through completely or are blinded by sentimentality and emotionalism.
The problem with Hamas and the Palestinians now is that sentimentiality and emotionalism have become the functional equivalent of and ally to anti-Semitism.
She really casts a whole new light on the phrase “useful idiot.”
a lot of leftists either haven’t thought their positions through completely…
You could have stopped right there.
The woman is incredibly naive and ignorant and lives in a utopian fantasy world, but she is not a malevolent person, unlike the pro-Hamas demonstrators we see here in the USA and elsewhere or college presidents and academics that would justify and support the extermination of all Jews.
She is simply a peace-nik totally divorced from reality.
Unfortunately, folks like her, because of her actions, aid and abet Hamas and their supporters .
Pretty sure I’ve told the story here before, but it would have been a long time ago. I knew a girl, post high school, who did not know which side won the civil war. She would go on to become a fervent Bernie Sanders supporter. My guess is she still doesn’t know which side won the civil war.
Hamas is evil it is the Old Gods in new bottles
“Friends (and enemies for that matter), I present to you the modern USA electorate.”
— M J R
—–
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
— Winston Churchill
—–
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
— H. L. Mencken
I believe in the wisdom of crowds, but only because I desperately NEED to believe in the wisdom of crowds.
She did stop and think about the questions, looking at it from the Israeli side. I would be interested to know whether she had ended up being persuaded or not.
johnj
Now that you mention it, I wonder if she went home and tried to think about the issues the guy presented. She must know she had some obvious blank spots about which it had never occurred to her to think. I wonder…..
I wonder if she went home and tried to think about the issues the guy presented.
I’m thinking, yes, but then she saw something shiny.
Pat Condell laid it out 12 yrs ago…
“The Great Palestinian Lie”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1N1zhUm84w
My first memorised Great Man quote is this one, thought to be a paraphrase of the unknown original.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” —Edmund Burke
It challenges us to summon courage and face down evil. It is not a call for passionate and promiscuous intensity.
It is also not incompatible with moderation and observing the Aristotelian mean.
Not very evil can or should be addressed. The wise woman or man will pick their battles, and not waste time with inessential ones.
Just wondering if there’s a language barrier at work here…..
I can’t help but noticing: Anytime there is a news story about the Israel / Palestine / Hamas conflict, I notice that most of the reporting is touching on the human impact story. There is little battlefield analysis, almost no live coverage of the conflict, no troop counts, so on. It’s all human interest. And the human interest story is all geared toward evincing an emotional reaction. Almost none of it is geared toward actually informing the viewer about an intellectual focus on the conflict. They’re all about the participants feeling ‘angry’ and / or ‘fearful’ and so on.
What to make of this? Is this conditioning to encourage viewers to consider only these aspects of the war, the emotional responses that one should have toward armed conflict? The sympathy one should be feeling toward the residents affected? No intellectual work done to get to the origins of the conflict, no distancing to allow impartial and objective analysis? I’m a little disgusted by it all, quite frankly. But glad to see the Israeli’s go about their business dismantling Hamas. I hope they continue to follow through.
What to make of this?
==
1. They don’t employ many reporters anymore
==
2. They’re hoping to poach viewers from the Hallmark Channel.
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1738260347176243506?t=okrlGTtV7LDYNZFv4M0mgw&s=19
Obama. No surprise. It’s his gig. He’s always in the enemies’ camp.
that is how al jazeera legitimated the cause of al Queda, as did the British press did the IRA, the band of Brigands who took the Kaiser then the Soviets coin,
Obama was just a tool for various parties like Soros like Prince Talal, who reinvented himself as some great reformer with publicists like Khashoggi, who had served Bin Laden, before him, Talal underwrote many of the University chairs in GeorgeTown, in Cambridge in Morningside heights,
Aggie, regarding all human impact / no live coverage of the conflict, that’s why I turn to ILTV, particularly their “News Flash” 3 minute YouTube videos to get the action apart from emotions, at least from the Israeli side.
There are many other sites, such as Raptor News on YouTube that also cover the action but which appear to be over-the-top hyperbole / wishful thinking of what has actually transpired, e.g. “flooding the tunnels” days / weeks before they actually did, and “Sinwar captured”, etc. So one has to have a bit of Spidey-sense in this propaganda war.
I used to know a woman who was crying on August 6. I asked her why she was crying, and she said she was crying for all of the people who died in Japan on that date when the USA dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. I asked her if she also cried on December 7, and she gave me a blank look. I said, “You know, December 7, the day when Japan attacked the United States, and killed a bunch of Americans. There are still a thousand dead American sailors at the bottom of Pearl Harbor.” Needless to say, she didn’t make any association with the fact that Japan started things rolling at Pearl Harbor that ended up with Japan getting nuked. That naîve woman also didn’t know where Pearl Harbor is or what happened there. Unfortunately, there are a lot of loons like that around, and even worse, they get to vote.