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		<title>Comment on Iridium: real life moves fast by When The Teacher Becomes The Student &#124; Articles On Teaching</title>
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		<title>Comment on Race and IQ, part 2 by Your Questions About Survey Monkey Review &#124; Free Survey Maker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Your Questions About Survey Monkey Review &#124; Free Survey Maker</dc:creator>
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		<title>Comment on Kill all your darlings by Say it ain&#8217;t over the rainbow &#171; Cooperative Catalyst</title>
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		<dc:creator>Say it ain&#8217;t over the rainbow &#171; Cooperative Catalyst</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] a scary thing to do. We have to let go of our traditional roles. We have to let go of some of our darling lessons. We have to let go of some content, some scores, and some approval. Finally, around week 2 [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on For the man who has everything, except tentacles by Chris Lawson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Lawson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is magnificent!</description>
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		<title>Comment on Are you anti-semitic? by Lemon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lemon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are you anti-goyim?: then I&#039;m antisemitic. Try any trick you want, what you give is what you get. And we know you all too well to fall about any thing like this.

Evidence about history, evidence in what&#039;s all around now with YOUR  jew financial power; control of the mass media, hiding of all that misery YOU caused, all the facts you&#039;re not interested about, the deliberate financial disasters of JEW ANTI-GOYIST BANK, which is as much as saying all the rulling top bankers. And now you seek to master our thoughts once more. Don&#039;t go on: you started this, and so, fault is far more yours than anyone else&#039;s.

&amp; We also know what the Talmud is all about. I read it myself, what a pity, we are not the ignorants you&#039;d like, neither our ancestrors were when they told what yours were.

Let&#039;s see when are we seing one authoanalisyng article of yours by here- the sort:
&quot;I&#039;m I manipulative?&quot;, &quot;do I squeme for sumiting all of mankind to my desires?&quot;, &quot;Don&#039;t I care nothing about how much people do I need to walk over for gettig my way?&quot;, &quot;can I justify myself all of my plotting, all of my means of goyim subyugation?&quot;, &quot;is not all the huge power we have through complete economic control suspectfull enough?&quot;, &quot;can anyone even think of believing one single word that goes out of my mouth?&quot;, &quot;I&#039;m a good person?&quot;, &quot;what&#039;s a good person&quot;, &quot;what in the world does that odd word good mean?&quot;, &quot;Am I a compulsive liar?&quot;, &quot;what do I think about this stuff: Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348,  Libbre David 37, 
... [...]
&quot;do I consider we jews are in war agains everyone else, a hidden one, and that it is righteous and is ok that we spread worldwide eventualy taking over on our own?&quot;, &quot;are many fellow jews doing all they can to get goym misserable and helpless, while we get sick rich?&quot;, &quot;doesn&#039;t  all what has happened since 11/09/2001 and therefore  have it&#039;s origing in some very powerfull jews&#039; esquemes?&quot;, &quot;Am I willing to answer sincerely to all this?&quot;
 
Hash. There you should have to recognize much more shit than anyone can handdle.

Come on, man.</description>
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<p>Evidence about history, evidence in what&#8217;s all around now with YOUR  jew financial power; control of the mass media, hiding of all that misery YOU caused, all the facts you&#8217;re not interested about, the deliberate financial disasters of JEW ANTI-GOYIST BANK, which is as much as saying all the rulling top bankers. And now you seek to master our thoughts once more. Don&#8217;t go on: you started this, and so, fault is far more yours than anyone else&#8217;s.</p>
<p>&amp; We also know what the Talmud is all about. I read it myself, what a pity, we are not the ignorants you&#8217;d like, neither our ancestrors were when they told what yours were.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see when are we seing one authoanalisyng article of yours by here- the sort:<br />
&#8220;I&#8217;m I manipulative?&#8221;, &#8220;do I squeme for sumiting all of mankind to my desires?&#8221;, &#8220;Don&#8217;t I care nothing about how much people do I need to walk over for gettig my way?&#8221;, &#8220;can I justify myself all of my plotting, all of my means of goyim subyugation?&#8221;, &#8220;is not all the huge power we have through complete economic control suspectfull enough?&#8221;, &#8220;can anyone even think of believing one single word that goes out of my mouth?&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m a good person?&#8221;, &#8220;what&#8217;s a good person&#8221;, &#8220;what in the world does that odd word good mean?&#8221;, &#8220;Am I a compulsive liar?&#8221;, &#8220;what do I think about this stuff: Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348,  Libbre David 37,<br />
&#8230; [...]<br />
&#8220;do I consider we jews are in war agains everyone else, a hidden one, and that it is righteous and is ok that we spread worldwide eventualy taking over on our own?&#8221;, &#8220;are many fellow jews doing all they can to get goym misserable and helpless, while we get sick rich?&#8221;, &#8220;doesn&#8217;t  all what has happened since 11/09/2001 and therefore  have it&#8217;s origing in some very powerfull jews&#8217; esquemes?&#8221;, &#8220;Am I willing to answer sincerely to all this?&#8221;</p>
<p>Hash. There you should have to recognize much more shit than anyone can handdle.</p>
<p>Come on, man.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Are you anti-semitic? by judengeist2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m curious -- why is this blog showing up on a page link to Asimov&#039;s Science Fiction?  The question about whether you can be anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic (or rather, anti-Jewish)  seems out of place here.  (By the way, the answer is yes.)

And I find the post by Jewishnegro to be odd.  How is this &quot;gay&quot;?  Is that using the word in the context of being derisive, as in &quot;that is so gay&quot;?  Haven&#039;t you seen the PSA by Wanda Sykes (who is both African American and lesbian) showing how that usage is derogatory towards gays (as the word &quot;gypped&quot; is to Gypsies, or Roma)?  What if someone said &quot;that is so negro&quot;?  Think about it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m curious &#8212; why is this blog showing up on a page link to Asimov&#8217;s Science Fiction?  The question about whether you can be anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic (or rather, anti-Jewish)  seems out of place here.  (By the way, the answer is yes.)</p>
<p>And I find the post by Jewishnegro to be odd.  How is this &#8220;gay&#8221;?  Is that using the word in the context of being derisive, as in &#8220;that is so gay&#8221;?  Haven&#8217;t you seen the PSA by Wanda Sykes (who is both African American and lesbian) showing how that usage is derogatory towards gays (as the word &#8220;gypped&#8221; is to Gypsies, or Roma)?  What if someone said &#8220;that is so negro&#8221;?  Think about it.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Are you anti-semitic? by Reporter kastar Svenska kyrkan tillbaka till medeltiden. &#124; Mina tankar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Reporter kastar Svenska kyrkan tillbaka till medeltiden. &#124; Mina tankar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Are you anti-semitic? by jewishnegro</title>
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		<description>this is gay</description>
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		<title>Comment on Are you anti-semitic? by Anti-Semitism: The Flowchart &#171; Lawrence Person&#039;s BattleSwarm Blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anti-Semitism: The Flowchart &#171; Lawrence Person&#039;s BattleSwarm Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] at Talking Squid, Chris Lawson has come up with a flow chart to determine whether criticism of Jews and/or Israel is [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on Are you anti-semitic? by Jeremy Byrne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeremy Byrne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;I’ve conflated Israel and Jews because (i) Israel is a Jewish state, not just a state which has a high population of Jews&lt;/em&gt;

That seems a lot like conflating criticism of Jordan with criticism of Islam, or Cambodia with Buddhism. Sure, Israel may be the only modern State professing to be Jewish, but while some of its ardent supporters would like it to be so, Israel is no more the State of All Jewish People than Britain is the State of All English People, or of All Anglicans.

&lt;em&gt;(ii) the conflation is incredibly common&lt;/em&gt;

Well yes, amongst people trying to label critics of Israel as anti-Semites it is.

&lt;em&gt;(iii) I was thinking of the conflation as it is currently applied by the UCU and the UN Human Rights Council. Given the number of left-wing, right-wing, theocratic, and kleptocratic nations that have engaged in extraordinary human rights abuses, the unswerving determination of these two groups to punish Israel, and only Israel, can really only be explained by anti-Semitism.&lt;/em&gt;

I admit I&#039;m ignorant of the UCU&#039;s monstering and only peripherally cognizant of the depravities of the UNHRC, but surely there are other explanations, even if only in the hypothetical. Might they not see Israel as a modern, wealthy nation, founded by some of the cream of Europe&#039;s intellectual elite, whom they would seek to hold to particularly high standards? Perhaps they feel they have a better chance with Israel, because many Israelis are well-educated, liberal and cosmopolitan. Could it be they feel a kinship with Israelis that they don&#039;t with the people of those other nations (which might say more about cultural biases in other directions, I suppose)? What about the possibility they may see Israel&#039;s destabilising role in the region as the last remnant of a colonialism for which the Europeans amongst them feel some personal responsibility? They might even see the ideological and moral burden imposed by Israel&#039;s actions as simply too onerous for the Jewish diaspora to continue to bear.  Surely it can&#039;t &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; be because they&#039;re all hateful racists who see Jews as subhuman and Israel as an existential threat.

I find the cognitive bias implied by this assessment baffling. Maybe it&#039;s an indicator of the enormous psychological power of a term like &quot;anti-Semite&quot;; so loaded is it with societal guilt and association with lunatic regimes that it exerts an almost Orwellian power to distort perceptions. Antisemitism is a real phenomenon with both unique and extraordinary historical manifestations and a continuing influence at personal and political levels. However, use of the term as a blunt-force instrument to stifle debate over the actions of the State of Israel mocks and devalues that reality. It&#039;s a cheap shot: a criticism rarely worthy of serious debate, and It really deserves a Godwin&#039;s Law of its own. Machiavellian Victorian-Era Prime Ministers aside, most actual anti-Semites are remarkably stupid people, readily revealed in their ignorance and bigotry. If you find yourself positing sinister, hidden motivations in your quest to unmask them, it might just be you&#039;re over-sensitised.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I’ve conflated Israel and Jews because (i) Israel is a Jewish state, not just a state which has a high population of Jews</em></p>
<p>That seems a lot like conflating criticism of Jordan with criticism of Islam, or Cambodia with Buddhism. Sure, Israel may be the only modern State professing to be Jewish, but while some of its ardent supporters would like it to be so, Israel is no more the State of All Jewish People than Britain is the State of All English People, or of All Anglicans.</p>
<p><em>(ii) the conflation is incredibly common</em></p>
<p>Well yes, amongst people trying to label critics of Israel as anti-Semites it is.</p>
<p><em>(iii) I was thinking of the conflation as it is currently applied by the UCU and the UN Human Rights Council. Given the number of left-wing, right-wing, theocratic, and kleptocratic nations that have engaged in extraordinary human rights abuses, the unswerving determination of these two groups to punish Israel, and only Israel, can really only be explained by anti-Semitism.</em></p>
<p>I admit I&#8217;m ignorant of the UCU&#8217;s monstering and only peripherally cognizant of the depravities of the UNHRC, but surely there are other explanations, even if only in the hypothetical. Might they not see Israel as a modern, wealthy nation, founded by some of the cream of Europe&#8217;s intellectual elite, whom they would seek to hold to particularly high standards? Perhaps they feel they have a better chance with Israel, because many Israelis are well-educated, liberal and cosmopolitan. Could it be they feel a kinship with Israelis that they don&#8217;t with the people of those other nations (which might say more about cultural biases in other directions, I suppose)? What about the possibility they may see Israel&#8217;s destabilising role in the region as the last remnant of a colonialism for which the Europeans amongst them feel some personal responsibility? They might even see the ideological and moral burden imposed by Israel&#8217;s actions as simply too onerous for the Jewish diaspora to continue to bear.  Surely it can&#8217;t <em>only</em> be because they&#8217;re all hateful racists who see Jews as subhuman and Israel as an existential threat.</p>
<p>I find the cognitive bias implied by this assessment baffling. Maybe it&#8217;s an indicator of the enormous psychological power of a term like &#8220;anti-Semite&#8221;; so loaded is it with societal guilt and association with lunatic regimes that it exerts an almost Orwellian power to distort perceptions. Antisemitism is a real phenomenon with both unique and extraordinary historical manifestations and a continuing influence at personal and political levels. However, use of the term as a blunt-force instrument to stifle debate over the actions of the State of Israel mocks and devalues that reality. It&#8217;s a cheap shot: a criticism rarely worthy of serious debate, and It really deserves a Godwin&#8217;s Law of its own. Machiavellian Victorian-Era Prime Ministers aside, most actual anti-Semites are remarkably stupid people, readily revealed in their ignorance and bigotry. If you find yourself positing sinister, hidden motivations in your quest to unmask them, it might just be you&#8217;re over-sensitised.</p>
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