Comments on: Teacher summoned to hearing over leftist Facebook comments

By: Bosko

Bosko — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:22:02 +0000

Yes, Greg, I can sense (from the distance) the same thing happening in the United States. I really hope it won’t escalate, for your sakes and for the sake of the rest of the world too.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:07:14 +0000

Well, Bosko, you are a player, I only on the outside, looking in. But I think you are completely right. There’s a zombie craze here in the States. I think of hatred like zombies: hatred bites you, you starting hating and biting too.

By: Bosko

Bosko — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:53:57 +0000

Greg
I agree with you. In fact, part of the reason why I decided to post here on +972, is because I am worried about the trend of dislike-hatred (yes, even hate) that seems to be creeping in between Jewish leftists and right wingers. I think it is a very dangerous trend. Every time the Jewish people met with disaster in our history, it was preceeded with such internal hatreds – Sinat Chinam. I don’t think we can afford the same mistake again. History will not give us another chance. So it would be best if we on the right and the left get our act together and stop treating each other as enemies. We can have our differences, but let’s not be enemies.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:49:58 +0000

Bosko,
I wasn’t commenting on you but on those who have talked about banishment.
Resolve differences? I’m old enough now to know how things end. I do not want to resolve differences so much as promote a society where differences can be resolved, to recur again in same or different form. We cannot eliminate differences; evolution disalows that. But we can make our differences change, so that we are not in a perpetual cold war, block against block. Our coalitions can change. If that can happen, we are not doomed to repeated our past unendingly. Or so I hope in faith.

By: Bosko

Bosko — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:39:21 +0000

Greg
Fair enough. I already changed my mind about what I said above. I am also guilty of misjudging people’s motives at times. Having said that, I don’t think it will be as easy to resolve the differences of opinion that I have with a lot of people on this site. But hey, that’s life. We are all different.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:00:52 +0000

Bosko,
Asking that someone be banned is false efficacy. We write comments and it really means very little. Getting someone banned makes it appear that we can effect things. All it really shows is that anger is infectous. It is deep primate to want to silence what is not us. One reason why I am not on site everyday is that I don’t want to activate that part of my brain. For then all I have is just another computer game, a bit more real, as I imagine my writer target hurting over my barb. At best, though, all I do is infect someone else with anger too.

By: Bosko

Bosko — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:51:04 +0000

I am all for free speech. I am against teachers being hauled in for interrogation because of their political views.
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Having said that, some of the posters who posted on this very thread should take a long hard look at THEMSELVES in the mirror and they will see that they have exactly the same tendencies in reverse. Some of you (you know who you are) have requested that people like me who hold different views than most of you here, should be banned. And if that does not work, then they try other shoddy tactics in a vain attempt to shut down differing points of view.
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Yes, the heart of a totalitarian beats in some ( note, I said SOME) of you too who post here. You are no different than those on the right whom you rightly criticise

By: Richard Allen

Richard Allen — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:20:27 +0000

Richardnyc, you really should learn Hebrew. Or move to Israel. At least then your knee-jerk Israel-right-or-wrong attitudes would at least feel informed or earned.

By: Piotr Berman

Piotr Berman — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:45:40 +0000

I would be wary of Google translations.

“With your Right you keep the spoon”
[Google: with your right wing you keep the spoon]
“With your Right you make the cross sign”
[Google: with your Right you say farewell]
“With your Right you work”
“Vote for the Right”.

Can you guess the original from Google translation:
Next or people, to the rescue,
Red Flag, Red Flag
Next or people, to the rescue,
Red flag will triumph.

By: Henry Weinstein

Henry Weinstein — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:01:02 +0000

The way the Israeli Far Right’s Zealots depict to themselves ‘the Left’ aka ‘the Leftists’, which are behind everything turning wrong, controls everything in Israel – in the media, in the universities, in the judiciary, even on Facebook, not to mention subliminal messages in TV ads, YouTube videos – is the same way Antisemites depict ‘Jews’.
It’s not the same hatred obsession, but it’s the same hysterical paranoia.