thirdform

pass the sick bucket
Another way of looking at it is that a state will not want to give another state a right to exist if that other state doesn't recognise it itself. This is why Israel reluctant to allow Palestine to have full statehood as Palestine doesn't want to acknowledge Israel's statehood in turn. All of these universal rights are universal not necessarily because of God but because they have been negotiated and discussed widely enough to represent a communal agreement. By ignoring a right that has been agreed by communal agreement one rejects the authority of the wider community but thereby also rejects one's status within it.

and yet meir kahane was fearful of an arab majority developing in Israel, so using majority agreement is never a valid criteria.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
you would realise that the equivocation you made puts you in the position of adopting the idea that if Israel can be proven to be immoral, then it is moral to destroy it.
If abortion were half as important to Commandante Biscuits as he protests is it, he'd surely support both Hamas and the PLO (since abortion is illegal under almost all circumstances in both Gaza and the West Bank) and oppose Israel (where baby-murder is available on request).
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
He seems to be worried about that precisely because it is a valid criterion.

Well, if you think that, then you have to admit you are a racist proponent of ethnic cleansing and cannot stick it to the progressives.

This doesn't bother me, you could be a Kahanist for all I care, but it makes your posting look
rather foolish, doubly so when you condemn others 'sloppy propaganda'. even if Israel was somehow not genocidal, you have outed yourself as being so, based on the democratic criterion.
 

mixed_biscuits

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Well, if you think that, then you have to admit you are a racist proponent of ethnic cleansing and cannot stick it to the progressives.

This doesn't bother me, you could be a Kahanist for all I care, but it makes your posting look
rather foolish, doubly so when you condemn others 'sloppy propaganda'. even if Israel was somehow not genocidal, you have outed yourself as being so, based on the democratic criterion.
Democracy isn't always going to output ethical decisions i.e. decisions aren't ethical because they are democratic.
 

mixed_biscuits

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If abortion were half as important to Commandante Biscuits as he protests is it, he'd surely support both Hamas and the PLO (since abortion is illegal under almost all circumstances in both Gaza and the West Bank) and oppose Israel (where baby-murder is available on request).
Conflict can't be dictated by a single issue in that way.
 

mixed_biscuits

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Well, if you think that, then you have to admit you are a racist proponent of ethnic cleansing and cannot stick it to the progressives.

This doesn't bother me, you could be a Kahanist for all I care, but it makes your posting look
rather foolish, doubly so when you condemn others 'sloppy propaganda'. even if Israel was somehow not genocidal, you have outed yourself as being so, based on the democratic criterion.
This is the logic the left uses to decide whether a country worrying about its culture being undermined by immigration is good or bad: if they are a country of oppressed people, it's good that they worry; if they are oppressors it's bad.

So a Palestinian state would be acting morally to exclude Jews from within its borders but Japan is immoral for having such an exclusionary attitude. Come to think of it, nobody cares about Japan. It's too far away.

So thirdform is being disingenuous, using 'racist' as a derogatory epithet, as he well knows he would consider the same action racist but also moral if performed by different people.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
This is the logic the left uses to decide whether a country worrying about its culture being undermined by immigration is good or bad: if they are a country of oppressed people, it's good that they worry; if they are oppressors it's bad.

So a Palestinian state would be acting morally to exclude Jews from within its borders but Japan is immoral for having such an exclusionary attitude. Come to think of it, nobody cares about Japan. It's too far away.

So thirdform is being disingenuous, using 'racist' as a derogatory epithet, as he well knows he would consider the same action racist but also moral if performed by different people.

no I merely stated it as a logical consequence of your thinking, the rest is your own insecure projection about culture. If you think Kahane was ultimately right (and it seems to us that democracy produces many Kahanes) then you need to expel all arabs from Israel. it matters not a jot if 'racist' is an epithet in this argument. Getting offended about this is intellectual cowardice. It is a racialist policy at the level of the state. No need to sugar coat it, you stupid cunt lmfao.

Own your lane, not doing so is undignified.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
Democracy isn't always going to output ethical decisions i.e. decisions aren't ethical because they are democratic.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

absolutely, this is the most profound thing you have said.

It is an indictment of democratic ideology though, even if you think democracy is the best system, you leave yourself open to attack.
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
Is it a good idea to be constantly scanning the news/Twitter etc. for this stuff? I know it can be hard to look away but there's obviously nothing any of us can do about it.
it's probably not and i've thought about this as well. whenever i see these images i quickly scroll further because i don't want to see them, at the same time i also don't want to ignore it. we can do something about it though can we? we can inform other people? we can demonstrate? we can engage in direct action? i guess non of that will stop anything immediately but i don't think it would be without effect either.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
it's probably not and i've thought about this as well. whenever i see these images i quickly scroll further because i don't want to see them, at the same time i also don't want to ignore it. we can do something about it though can we? we can inform other people? we can demonstrate? we can engage in direct action? i guess non of that will stop anything immediately but i don't think it would be without effect either.
Demonstrations happen all over the world all the time and Israel obviously DGAF, nor does it seem to have much impact on the policies of the governments in those countries. By far the biggest supporter of Israel is the USA, in fact I'd say it's the only country with any real potential for leverage over Israel, and the choice there is between a party that's strongly pro-Israel and one that's really, really, really pro-Israel.

As far as direct action goes, I guess you could always travel there, sign up with Hamas and almost certainly get killed, or bomb a Boeing factory and spend the rest of your life in prison.

I donate to a Palestinian medical charity and try not to expose myself to the horror of what's going on too much.
 

mixed_biscuits

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no I merely stated it as a logical consequence of your thinking, the rest is your own insecure projection about culture. If you think Kahane was ultimately right (and it seems to us that democracy produces many Kahanes) then you need to expel all arabs from Israel. it matters not a jot if 'racist' is an epithet in this argument. Getting offended about this is intellectual cowardice. It is a racialist policy at the level of the state. No need to sugar coat it, you stupid cunt lmfao.

Own your lane, not doing so is undignified.
You've got a big non-sequitur there.
 
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