The problem isn't that the interviewer said it’d belong in the backpack of an extremist, the problem is it seems he was correct.
We have a best selling book by a "high level" author that said Israel doesn't have a right to be an ethnostate, i.e. to be Jewish. He seems to not know the Arab states are ethnostates nor that the Palestinians have constantly engaged in terrorism.
The narrative he's "giving a voice" to is that of the extremists. I.e. that Israel doesn't have a right to exist and all Palestinian violence is justified because Jews shouldn't be in the Middle East.
Yes, looks that way. The amount buzz words without enough research to justify a wiki page is strongly suggestive.
For someone who should be treated a lot more seriously, listen to Roland G. Fryer Jr. He's that Harvard Economist who collects data about things like DEI so he can point out where they're right and wrong.
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Google's AI says:...???
Oh. She has the exact same name as an actress. Amusingly Google's robot says she's a DEI professor, actress, and a dance instructor who started out as a law student.
Both of them have pictures so I can see they're different people.
It is much more likely that government forecasters got the storm and its devastating results wrong. Incompetence? Certainly.
I live in South Florida. I've been here for three hurricane predictions.
On the first two we didn't get a drop of water. This time we got some wind and rain and the schools closed on Thursday. The hurricane hit north of us by a 5 hour drive away and the impacted zone must be at least 15 hours away.
The margin of error in these predictions is very large. The area of effect is crazy big.
I'm reasonably sure the gov is doing what it can, however in a disaster this big there will be problems for weeks or months.
For what it's worth, I googled "israel's plans for gaza after the war wiki" and the AI came up with...
Israel's Post-War Gaza Plans
Based on the provided search results, here is a summary of Israel’s plans for Gaza after the war:
Temporary Administration: Israel plans to temporarily administer Gaza, establishing security, removing Hamas’ control of civil governance, and starting Gaza’s physical and social reconstruction.
Strategic Objectives: Any plan for post-war Gaza should:
Prevent future Hamas- and Gaza-based attacks by conventional, terrorist, or asymmetric means.
End the cycle of wars between Israelis and Gazans.
Security Control: Israel intends to maintain security control over Palestinian areas in Gaza, as outlined in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “day after” plan.
Demilitarization: Reconstruction efforts in Gaza will be dependent on demilitarization, implying that Israel will insist on the disarming of Hamas and other militant groups.
Transition to Local Governance: The ultimate goal is to transition to local Palestinian governance and security responsibility once conditions are met, allowing for a more stable and secure environment.
It is essential to note that these plans are subject to change and may be influenced by various factors, including international pressure, diplomatic efforts, and the evolving situation on the ground.
I think we're in "part of the human condition" territory here and not "mental illness". There are too many people who think irrationally about politics, religion, and their combo.
Some of her legal drama suggests we can add "unethical" to her list which might be the real problem. She tried some illegal stuff (maybe in the heat of the moment, maybe not), got caught, and is now trying to drama her way through it.
Holy books explain very little about the culture. The books are flexible enough to be on every side of every issue. Ergo the Christians can reasonably claim OT is cruel by quoting selectively and the Jews can claim the opposite also by quoting selectively.
If you want to counter claim with the NT then everything about torturing his son to death up on the cross is fair game.
Big picture your culture is for helping your people. Part of that is a degree of isolation so you don't assimilate so there's that.
RE: Polish Citizenship
My kids got Polish citizenship when they were babies. Their mother insisted.
That's worked out really well, most don't speak enough Polish to get it now. Two of them live in the EU.
Chris: That level of forced ethnic cleansing should be rectified.
I can't think of anywhere this has been attempted much less made things better. The creation of every country is a crime. The land was always owned by someone else.
Normally we forgive countries the crime of their creation because it requires a war to move the borders back and because countries are good things.
Further, we're not talking about rectifying all ethnic cleansing. The countries that kicked out their Jews won't make it up to them. The Jews are expected to always be on the losing side.
The crimes of the father don't transfer onto his children. My children shouldn't be compensated for anything that happened to their grandparents and they shouldn't be expected to pay for anything their grandparents did. If it happened 70 years ago then it's a settled issue.
Chris: the best way to get them to stop killing each other is for Israel to end the Occupation, blockade, and siege...
And what happens on day two when the various terror groups continue attempting to terrorize Jews into fleeing the Middle East?
Those groups mean what they say. The state of Israel has the duty to protect it's citizens from terror groups. These groups are not fighting to become minorities in a Jewish state.
Chip: We know what the consequences of not dealing with them are and they are much much worse.
No, it's not more expensive to do nothing because doing nothing is free and most of them will muddle through on their own. For every 1 we send to prison there are another 30x plus that we don't.
You'll get a budget to help them. It won't be enough. Some will get helped. A lot won't. Most of the ones helped will be kids that respond/want to be helped.
We don't have the budget to spend unlimited amounts of money on kids that don't respond to help.
It is better for society if the money that we could spend on helping them fail less bad was spent making the high achievers go further.
Giving me (& my clan) the tools we need to force the administration to serve children better help everyone.
Ideally the school improves. At a minimum I'm not forced to flee the school district.
Although the source of a lot of school inequality, my clan also creates enriching activities. The baseball coach does it to help his kid but there are 8+ other kids on the team.
I went to five colleges in five years (long story).
My experience was that the quality of the instruction had nothing to do with the amount of money I was paying. Instead it seemed to be inversely related to the size of the college. I.e. the smaller the better.
The issue seemed to be that bad teachers at the smaller colleges (especially community college) were quickly fired.
Similarly, past a certain point in a local school level, more money doesn't seem to help and is just virtue signaling. It's like how if you give someone 10x more food than is adequate you're not really improving them.
Chip: I haven’t seen anyone demonstrate a school choice model which resulted in the low performers becoming successful.
Largely because of school choice, my low performing kid became a high performing kid.
Even functional systems can fail specific kids and/or have the needs of the child diverge from the needs of the system.
The school system as a whole was high functioning but it was in the process of giving daughter #3 a sub-standard outcome. Certainly less than she was capable of.
School choice was a club that I used to beat the administration with until they agreed to do things my way. However that required us to pull the girls out of the system for 2 years.
Chris: the guy who was forced to flee as a child also blames Israel
He wouldn't be there making the video if he weren't.
Ethically, it's heinous to mistreat your local Jews because a different group of Jews in another country created a state. It's like the USA mistreating our local Blacks because we don't like some African dictator.
Having said that, antisemitism is the rocket fuel behind Israel's creation and growth. Without the Arab states kicking out their Jews, Israel wouldn't have had enough of a population to be viable.
Chris:I think the right of return remains both a practically (as in, the conflict won’t end without it) and morally necessary part of any solution.
I don't see why they should get a right of return while my children don't have it. My children are Polish through their mother. Poland was forced to change it's borders after WW2. If everyone had put their lives on hold waiting for the borders to move back, then in theory my kids could be in a refugee camp somewhere.
A lack of a right to return, which is normally the way the world deals with this, means everyone gets on with their lives and it doesn't become a multigenerational mess.
For example that's the way the world is dealing with the Arab countries kicking out their Jews.
Chris: The reason Israel clings to the idea that it is impossible is because they cling to the idea of an ethnostate.
Normal countries are able to decide who immigrates there. Israel wanting to be an ethnostate is a normal country reason to refuse.
Them accepting millions of people who are going to want the State to be an Islamic Republic is a non-starter.
First, you'd need "both parties" interested in seeing an end.
2nd, the Palestinian cause gets a ton of international funding. That UN agency makes sure the Palestinians don't suffer too much. The hardline people get lots of money (some of which goes into their pockets) to "resist".
Until those funding sources are removed it's more profitable for their leaders to "resist" than to make peace.
I think this wasn't viable in 1948. Look at where Ghada Karmi's head is at. She's a moderate (great link by the way).
(Paraphrasing her) This mess was set up by Great Britton so Israel's Jews are colonialists.
The Jews aren't indigenous to this region.
They came into "our country" and took it.
The only just solution is for there to be a RoR.
She's sitting right next to a Jew who was forced to flee from Iraq (that was Israel's fault of course) and she thinks she should have an RoR while he wouldn't be compensated.
The peace wing of Israel wouldn't be able to make peace with her because there's no way they'd agree to an RoR that would in practice result in an Islamic State.
Even if we end up with the one state solution because the settlers have taken so much land, there would still not be an RoR.
Chip: wouldn’t that definition necessarily include a few domestic cultures?
Yes, however nailing down what "culture" someone has is often hard.
"Culture" describes a group and we're talking about how individuals should be treated and evaluated. "Individual" doesn't mean "is in the same geographic area".
If a school administrator finds out that someone is an active neo-naz.i and posting things best described as hate-speech then I expect their admission will be rejected.
That's a world of difference from "he knows a neo-naz.i" much less "there is a neo-naz.i living within a half mile of him".
We shouldn't be rejecting people based on which country they're from nor which culture we think they might be a member of.
So what? The Palestinians being weak doesn't make them less genocidal or less opposed to our ideals. Nor does it change that the ME states where they've set up states are places I find problematic.
Thus the absurdity of LGBTQ groups trying to ally themselves with them and so on.
As a non-(Muslim/Jew/Christian), if I had to pick a place in the Middle East to live as a minority it'd be a no brainer that I'd want Israel.
I would be shocked if that sort of plan didn't exist. Similarly we have plans to invade and overthrow all countries that we're not allied with and some what we are.
Where we get into justification is if they're making preparations for that sort of thing.
On “Open Mic for the week of 10/7/2024”
The problem isn't that the interviewer said it’d belong in the backpack of an extremist, the problem is it seems he was correct.
We have a best selling book by a "high level" author that said Israel doesn't have a right to be an ethnostate, i.e. to be Jewish. He seems to not know the Arab states are ethnostates nor that the Palestinians have constantly engaged in terrorism.
The narrative he's "giving a voice" to is that of the extremists. I.e. that Israel doesn't have a right to exist and all Palestinian violence is justified because Jews shouldn't be in the Middle East.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/30/2024”
Yes, looks that way. The amount buzz words without enough research to justify a wiki page is strongly suggestive.
For someone who should be treated a lot more seriously, listen to Roland G. Fryer Jr. He's that Harvard Economist who collects data about things like DEI so he can point out where they're right and wrong.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/roland-fryer-refuses-to-lie-to-black-america/
I found this to be a very good listen.
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Islamophobia, Race and ethnicity, Ethno-religious identity, Immigration, Social Justice, Gender, Mental health, Media representation, Politics, Refugees, Extremism, Radicalisation, Community engagement, Public speaking, Leadership
Dr. Ghaffar-Siddiqui is a globally recognized multiple award-winning public-speaker, media pundit, researcher, and a passionate social justice advocate. As well as being a professor of sociology, criminology, and criminal-psychology, she is currently directing one of Canada’s largest government-funded Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives at Colleges and Institutes Canada’s National EDI Knowledge Mobilization Centre hosted at Sheridan College...
As a postcolonial scholar, her intersectional research concentrates on the impacts of colonialism and imperialism on the lives of diasporic peoples in the West. Focusing in the areas of migration, race/ethnicity and ethno-religio identity,...
Dr Ghaffar-Siddiqui’s ongoing contribution to knowledge building around anti-racism and decolonization studies includes many academic, legislative, and editorial publications. ...
Google's AI says:...???
Oh. She has the exact same name as an actress. Amusingly Google's robot says she's a DEI professor, actress, and a dance instructor who started out as a law student.
Both of them have pictures so I can see they're different people.
"
I don't understand what her point even is. That post reads like it's a conclusion where I'm missing ten pages of introduction and 30 pages of body.
What "colonies", what "freedom", what "empire", what "tools".
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Israel's plans at the moment are "win the war and take over".
That's pretty normal and should be expected since the alternative is "leave Hamas in charge and wait for the next mass terror attack".
Hamas doesn't care about it's people, isn't going to surrender, and intends to win by dragging the war on.
This could drag on for months or even years.
If various people insist on a "cease fire", then we should expect that Israel is going to prevent Hamas from rearming and digging more tunnels.
Which would mean no rebuilding infrastructure and Gaza is going to be kept in poverty.
On “Of Conspiracy Theories and Helene”
It is much more likely that government forecasters got the storm and its devastating results wrong. Incompetence? Certainly.
I live in South Florida. I've been here for three hurricane predictions.
On the first two we didn't get a drop of water. This time we got some wind and rain and the schools closed on Thursday. The hurricane hit north of us by a 5 hour drive away and the impacted zone must be at least 15 hours away.
The margin of error in these predictions is very large. The area of effect is crazy big.
I'm reasonably sure the gov is doing what it can, however in a disaster this big there will be problems for weeks or months.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/30/2024”
For what it's worth, I googled "israel's plans for gaza after the war wiki" and the AI came up with...
Israel's Post-War Gaza Plans
Based on the provided search results, here is a summary of Israel’s plans for Gaza after the war:
Temporary Administration: Israel plans to temporarily administer Gaza, establishing security, removing Hamas’ control of civil governance, and starting Gaza’s physical and social reconstruction.
Strategic Objectives: Any plan for post-war Gaza should:
Prevent future Hamas- and Gaza-based attacks by conventional, terrorist, or asymmetric means.
End the cycle of wars between Israelis and Gazans.
Security Control: Israel intends to maintain security control over Palestinian areas in Gaza, as outlined in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “day after” plan.
Demilitarization: Reconstruction efforts in Gaza will be dependent on demilitarization, implying that Israel will insist on the disarming of Hamas and other militant groups.
Transition to Local Governance: The ultimate goal is to transition to local Palestinian governance and security responsibility once conditions are met, allowing for a more stable and secure environment.
It is essential to note that these plans are subject to change and may be influenced by various factors, including international pressure, diplomatic efforts, and the evolving situation on the ground.
"
I think we're in "part of the human condition" territory here and not "mental illness". There are too many people who think irrationally about politics, religion, and their combo.
Some of her legal drama suggests we can add "unethical" to her list which might be the real problem. She tried some illegal stuff (maybe in the heat of the moment, maybe not), got caught, and is now trying to drama her way through it.
"
Her wiki has a massive amount of drama and interactions with the law. I'd say we're in mental illness territory but it seems deliberate.
She seems like someone who should be in prison for her various crimes so good going legal system.
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Oh, and Hell is a NT thing. That raises "cruel" to infinity.
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Holy books explain very little about the culture. The books are flexible enough to be on every side of every issue. Ergo the Christians can reasonably claim OT is cruel by quoting selectively and the Jews can claim the opposite also by quoting selectively.
If you want to counter claim with the NT then everything about torturing his son to death up on the cross is fair game.
Big picture your culture is for helping your people. Part of that is a degree of isolation so you don't assimilate so there's that.
"
RE: Polish Citizenship
My kids got Polish citizenship when they were babies. Their mother insisted.
That's worked out really well, most don't speak enough Polish to get it now. Two of them live in the EU.
Chris: That level of forced ethnic cleansing should be rectified.
I can't think of anywhere this has been attempted much less made things better. The creation of every country is a crime. The land was always owned by someone else.
Normally we forgive countries the crime of their creation because it requires a war to move the borders back and because countries are good things.
Further, we're not talking about rectifying all ethnic cleansing. The countries that kicked out their Jews won't make it up to them. The Jews are expected to always be on the losing side.
The crimes of the father don't transfer onto his children. My children shouldn't be compensated for anything that happened to their grandparents and they shouldn't be expected to pay for anything their grandparents did. If it happened 70 years ago then it's a settled issue.
Chris: the best way to get them to stop killing each other is for Israel to end the Occupation, blockade, and siege...
And what happens on day two when the various terror groups continue attempting to terrorize Jews into fleeing the Middle East?
Those groups mean what they say. The state of Israel has the duty to protect it's citizens from terror groups. These groups are not fighting to become minorities in a Jewish state.
"
Chip: We know what the consequences of not dealing with them are and they are much much worse.
No, it's not more expensive to do nothing because doing nothing is free and most of them will muddle through on their own. For every 1 we send to prison there are another 30x plus that we don't.
You'll get a budget to help them. It won't be enough. Some will get helped. A lot won't. Most of the ones helped will be kids that respond/want to be helped.
We don't have the budget to spend unlimited amounts of money on kids that don't respond to help.
It is better for society if the money that we could spend on helping them fail less bad was spent making the high achievers go further.
"
Chip: School choice has nothing to offer them.
Giving me (& my clan) the tools we need to force the administration to serve children better help everyone.
Ideally the school improves. At a minimum I'm not forced to flee the school district.
Although the source of a lot of school inequality, my clan also creates enriching activities. The baseball coach does it to help his kid but there are 8+ other kids on the team.
On “Let’s face it: We knew that Harris would win back in August”
Trumpism is Obama-ism. There is one guy and his followers buy into him emotionally to the point where they ignore they don't have a good reason.
Difference is Obama was far more ethical, saner, stayed inside the guard rails, and didn't want to be a cult leader past the election.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/30/2024”
I went to five colleges in five years (long story).
My experience was that the quality of the instruction had nothing to do with the amount of money I was paying. Instead it seemed to be inversely related to the size of the college. I.e. the smaller the better.
The issue seemed to be that bad teachers at the smaller colleges (especially community college) were quickly fired.
Similarly, past a certain point in a local school level, more money doesn't seem to help and is just virtue signaling. It's like how if you give someone 10x more food than is adequate you're not really improving them.
"
Chip: I haven’t seen anyone demonstrate a school choice model which resulted in the low performers becoming successful.
Largely because of school choice, my low performing kid became a high performing kid.
Even functional systems can fail specific kids and/or have the needs of the child diverge from the needs of the system.
The school system as a whole was high functioning but it was in the process of giving daughter #3 a sub-standard outcome. Certainly less than she was capable of.
School choice was a club that I used to beat the administration with until they agreed to do things my way. However that required us to pull the girls out of the system for 2 years.
"
Chris: the guy who was forced to flee as a child also blames Israel
He wouldn't be there making the video if he weren't.
Ethically, it's heinous to mistreat your local Jews because a different group of Jews in another country created a state. It's like the USA mistreating our local Blacks because we don't like some African dictator.
Having said that, antisemitism is the rocket fuel behind Israel's creation and growth. Without the Arab states kicking out their Jews, Israel wouldn't have had enough of a population to be viable.
Chris:I think the right of return remains both a practically (as in, the conflict won’t end without it) and morally necessary part of any solution.
I don't see why they should get a right of return while my children don't have it. My children are Polish through their mother. Poland was forced to change it's borders after WW2. If everyone had put their lives on hold waiting for the borders to move back, then in theory my kids could be in a refugee camp somewhere.
A lack of a right to return, which is normally the way the world deals with this, means everyone gets on with their lives and it doesn't become a multigenerational mess.
For example that's the way the world is dealing with the Arab countries kicking out their Jews.
Chris: The reason Israel clings to the idea that it is impossible is because they cling to the idea of an ethnostate.
Normal countries are able to decide who immigrates there. Israel wanting to be an ethnostate is a normal country reason to refuse.
Them accepting millions of people who are going to want the State to be an Islamic Republic is a non-starter.
"
First, you'd need "both parties" interested in seeing an end.
2nd, the Palestinian cause gets a ton of international funding. That UN agency makes sure the Palestinians don't suffer too much. The hardline people get lots of money (some of which goes into their pockets) to "resist".
Until those funding sources are removed it's more profitable for their leaders to "resist" than to make peace.
"
I think this wasn't viable in 1948. Look at where Ghada Karmi's head is at. She's a moderate (great link by the way).
(Paraphrasing her) This mess was set up by Great Britton so Israel's Jews are colonialists.
The Jews aren't indigenous to this region.
They came into "our country" and took it.
The only just solution is for there to be a RoR.
She's sitting right next to a Jew who was forced to flee from Iraq (that was Israel's fault of course) and she thinks she should have an RoR while he wouldn't be compensated.
The peace wing of Israel wouldn't be able to make peace with her because there's no way they'd agree to an RoR that would in practice result in an Islamic State.
Even if we end up with the one state solution because the settlers have taken so much land, there would still not be an RoR.
"
Chip: wouldn’t that definition necessarily include a few domestic cultures?
Yes, however nailing down what "culture" someone has is often hard.
"Culture" describes a group and we're talking about how individuals should be treated and evaluated. "Individual" doesn't mean "is in the same geographic area".
If a school administrator finds out that someone is an active neo-naz.i and posting things best described as hate-speech then I expect their admission will be rejected.
That's a world of difference from "he knows a neo-naz.i" much less "there is a neo-naz.i living within a half mile of him".
We shouldn't be rejecting people based on which country they're from nor which culture we think they might be a member of.
"
Thank you.
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Philip: They lost equity decades ago.
So what? The Palestinians being weak doesn't make them less genocidal or less opposed to our ideals. Nor does it change that the ME states where they've set up states are places I find problematic.
Thus the absurdity of LGBTQ groups trying to ally themselves with them and so on.
As a non-(Muslim/Jew/Christian), if I had to pick a place in the Middle East to live as a minority it'd be a no brainer that I'd want Israel.
"
I would be shocked if that sort of plan didn't exist. Similarly we have plans to invade and overthrow all countries that we're not allied with and some what we are.
Where we get into justification is if they're making preparations for that sort of thing.
"
All oppressed people should be with Team Blue and can reasonably be expected to support each other.
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