I can't believe people speculate on whether or not Jews influence or even control American culture and government. LOL

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[–]wizzwizz4 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

You might complain about B, and I don't think I'd be able to convince you not to. I'm certainly not going to bother with D (either you don't need convincing or you wouldn't be convinced by anything I say), and I do think E is slightly badly worded.

However, A and C are definitely things I can get behind, and I'm pretty sure I can defend them even to this audience:

  • Even if there's a secret club that only recruits Jews and wants to take over the world, that doesn't mean that Dave's responsible just because he's also Jewish. I mean seriously.
  • Killing people is bad. Hurting people is bad. Even killing Hitler would be bad, if you could avoid it. (I can elaborate on "if you could avoid it" if need be.)

And honestly? The real failure is not that this law was passed. It's that this law was necessary.

I'm an idiot. I noticed that I was confused. What I should've done is this:

  • Ok, I'm confused.
  • There's no reason for the US government to do this like this. It doesn't align with their interests to produce a sloppily-worded law.
  • Therefore,
    • either their interests are different to what I thought they were…
    • or they didn't do this.
  • This evidence is pretty strong – a law being passed with wording as soft as (E)…
  • Wait. This is a screenshot. Maybe I should check the actual law…
  • Nope, this is taken out of context to make it seem like these are restrictions on US citizens, instead of simply some examples of anti-Semitism. The scroll bar's been deliberately cropped out, and doesn't it say "European" at the top of the page?
  • This person seems to be attempting to manipulate the opinions of the Saidit readers. I should tell them.

What I actually did was this:

  • Meh, I'm going to ignore my confusion and SHARE MAH OPINIONS ON TEH INTERWEBZ!
  • My opinions are obviously important.
  • What was that niggling doubt in the back of my head again? Oh, I'm sure it wasn't important.

I will learn from this. I shouldn't have needed /u/HopeThatHalps to point this out to me.

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Nope, this is taken out of context to make it seem like these are restrictions on US citizens, instead of simply some examples of anti-Semitism. The scroll bar's been deliberately cropped out, and doesn't it say "European" at the top of the page? This person seems to be attempting to manipulate the opinions of the Saidit readers. I should tell them.

I admit I almost fell for it, but also found it strange considering the US strong pro-free speech culture. u/HopeThatHalps really came through on this.

I had expected to have left this type of thing on reddit's echo-chambers, but it seems there's a lot of radical conspiracists here too. ...well, it's the internet in general lately, it was supposed to be the information highway, instead it became the information check point where rather then providing free information it tries to manipulate it.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I posted another cringe-inducing PSA on /s/Saidit about this. It's interesting to see which of the commenters care about which aspects of my post.

And we could've had a nice little discussion about the actual law… *sigh* I don't blame you if you don't stick around, but we really need more people who get confused enough by falsehoods to actually check whether they're true.