What you feel when you hear “from the river to the sea” is exactly what the wokes feel when you say “all lives matter”, “abortion is murder” and “men can’t give birth”.
Do those feelings justify silencing and cancellation? If they do, that should work in all cases. If they don’t, that should also work in all cases.
It felt extremely unpleasant when on 9/11 my professor was celebrating and blaming the US in class. It feels even more unpleasant today when that same professor is plastering the social media with Russian propaganda. But I’m not naming this person. I’m not writing letters to the administration to get him fired. Because I won’t cede my principles to a short-lived pleasure of punishing him. All of our lives become worse when we do this.
If “feeling unsafe” justifies forcing people to do things, then COVID lockdowns and forced vaccinations were completely justified. Anything is justified because anybody can claim to feel threatened, wounded, unsafe and genocided at any time and for any reason.
What happened with feelings having an internal locus of control? What happened with being able to master your feelings? Are we all now completely at the mercy of our raging emotions? Are we going to reshape the world endlessly to avoid unpleasant feelings?
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There is an important distinction to be made. When I say “men cannot get pregnant” I am not dog-whistling my support for any state-backed conspiracy to go door to door and murder trans people. I honestly believe that trans people should be left alone to pursue their lifestyles.
In practice, I still agree with you. Getting a professor fired, even someone openly calling for the murder of Jews, is not, in the long run, going to make Jews safer. It is much more productive to embarrass universities and encourage donors to give money to institutions that would never have hired such people in the first place.
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“When I say “men cannot get pregnant” I am not dog-whistling my support for any state-backed conspiracy to go door to door and murder trans people”
Says who? You know how easy it is to say that this is exactly what you mean to happen?
“It is much more productive to embarrass universities and encourage donors to give money to institutions that would never have hired such people in the first place.”
Now we are talking. The donors (many of whom are either Jewish or pro-Israel) should wise up. Stop donating, stop paying for this ridiculousness. Send money to Israel instead.
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This is where we need to deploy the social contract. You are free to believe that I am part of some evil conspiracy such as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. You will have no choice but to try to kill me and I will, presumably, have no choice but to try to eliminate you first. If you are willing to give me the benefit of the doubt then we can come to an agreement where we agree to defend each other against anyone who believes we are part of some conspiracy.
To be clear, those shouting “sea to sea” are part of a conspiracy to kill me. I do not recognize any social contract with them. That being said, there is little that can be done at the moment. If they succeed at pushing the country into Hobbesian civil war then, when we are picking up the pieces to build a country, I may choose to have them killed. In the meantime, I am content to try to convince the contract-worthy folks out there that these are evil people who cannot be trusted with a social contract.
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