Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.

Mouthwash said:
I'm perplexed at how Protestants not giving children up for adoption to non-Protestants is antisemitic .
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I know you are. It's pretty sad frankly.

Mouthwash said:
Leftists twist around the definition of antisemitism so it becomes nothing more than a rhetorical strategy.
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Ironically, I have made myself immensely unpopular in various leftist online spaces (both pro-Palestinian and UK Labour Party) by calling out other people for antisemitism. For example members of a Labour Party group I used to be active in were basically claiming that Zionist control the British media and political system and I told them that's classic antisemitic conspiracy theorizing. The admin of the group failed to back me up causing me to bow out (this whole experience forced me to admit that there is an antisemitism problem in the Labour party, though I still maintain that the Tories probably have a worse antisemitism problem).

If I particularly cared what you think I'd be highly offended by this sort of nonsense; as is I know it's nothing but partisan intellectual maneuvering so it's, like, whatever. But I will say that I believe Traitorfish is probably the poster on CFC most sensitive to antisemitism, which of course doesn't really square with your generalizations about "the left".
 
Lexicus said:
I know you are. It's pretty sad frankly. If I particularly cared what you think I'd be highly offended by this sort of nonsense; as is I know it's nothing but partisan intellectual maneuvering so it's, like, whatever.
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All this projection is too much for me to deal with. :shake:

But I will say that I believe Traitorfish is probably the poster on CFC most sensitive to antisemitism
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Since you feel that way, it's worth mentioning that he agrees that there wasn't any clear reason for calling the adoption policy Jew hatred.
 
Mouthwash said:
All this projection is too much for me to deal with. :shake:
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Mouthwash said:
Since you feel that way, it's worth mentioning that he agrees that there wasn't any clear reason for calling the adoption policy Jew hatred.
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The actual post in question

Traitorfish said:
So it seems that they're just all-purpose religious bigots. It's not really clear why the article specifically highlighted the anti-Jewish aspect.

That said, the practice is functionally indistinguishable from anti-Semitism, and "we hate the Papes, too" is not historically proof that a person's objections are to Judaism as a religious doctrine rather than to the Jews as a people.
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Ah, well. Anyway, I don't agree that he's the most sensitive.

I also don't think most Jews would find it antisemitic, and would prefer a similar policy for Jewish children being put up for adoption. And since the Gentiles include the Mormons, those Jews must be anti-Mormon or whatever.
 
Mouthwash said:
Anyway, I don't agree that he's the most sensitive.
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I am shocked, simply shocked

Mouthwash said:
I don't think most Jews would agree that it is antisemitic
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https://atlanta.adl.org/letter-to-s...g-discrimination-in-child-placement-agencies/

This provision appears clearly intended to allow faith-based child placement agencies to discriminate against ready, willing and able foster-care and adoptive families on the basis of religion or moral belief. Such discrimination is imprudent public policy and raises serious legal issues.

“South Carolina faces a shortage of foster parents for more than 4,000 children in the state.”[1] Moreover, according to the Department of Social Services (“DSS”) web-site there are “… more than 500 children looking for forever homes in SC,”[2] and a search on the DSS web-page of “Children Eligible for Adoption” reflected 231 kids who presently are in need of adoption.[3]

When it comes it children in need, we can think of a no more compelling state interest than placing them into loving and stable homes free of abuse, deprivations and predation. No child should be denied a loving foster or adoptive home simply because a prospective parent is for example gay, transgender, Atheist, Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu. Yet, that is exactly what P38.29 could do to South Carolina’s most vulnerable kids.

We staunchly believe that neither South Carolina nor its taxpayers should be supporting discrimination. The publicly-funded discrimination that would be authorized by P38.29 is not only harmful and grossly unfair, but in certain instances would likely violate federal or Alabama law.
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Mouthwash said:
Yeah, the ADL are basically the spokespeople for leftist (well, not extreme left) Jews. They don't mention antisemitism here either. Try reading your own links, please.
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"allow faith-based child placement agencies to discriminate ... on the basis of religion."

i mean???
 
Mouthwash said:
Yeah, the ADL are basically the spokespeople for leftist (well, not extreme left) Jews.
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I liked "liberal Jews" better. That would have been more accurate. Still false, but less ridiculously and egregiously so.

Mouthwash said:
They don't mention antisemitism here either. Try reading your own links, please.
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Don't be an idiot on purpose.
 
cardgame said:
"allow faith-based child placement agencies to discriminate ... on the basis of religion."

i mean???
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Yes, discriminate in favor of their own! That's not specifically targeting Jews.

Everyone posting here has, despite my asking several times, failed to explain why the exclusion of all other religions should be construed as antisemitism, because those religions happen to number Judaism among them. So it's clear no one is going to argue seriously here. Goodbye.
 
This is so stupid that it's great, but I'll just put it here because I can't find the other thread and also because it's dumb and stupid.

Look, I think people are missing the forest for the trees; Obama can’t have been sent a mail bomb by right wing terrorists because Obama doesn't exist- there never actually was a black 44th president, and just like the holocaust, AIPAC is rewriting history for political ends. Why is it important to Israel that Americans believe that there was a black president? Two words: Oil.
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cardgame said:
Reddit comment thread about the latest right wing terrorism news
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Wasnt Qanon banned from Reddit ?
Honestly these Republicans havent seen a dumb scam that they are not willing to buy into and get fleeced by
 
Please, please, please let the next hundred plus pages be better...
"There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of existing centers."
There's actually this thing called "limited resources", Mr. Friedman.

"It is a mark of the political freedom of a capitalist society that men can openly advocate and work for socialism."
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(That's where you're wrong, pinko!)

"This is a role of inequality of wealth in preserving political freedom that is seldom noted - the role of the patron."
At this point I have nothing to offer but stunned silence.

Source is Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom, 40th anniversary edition from the chapter "Economic Freedom and Political Freedom".
 
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