Stop it. You’re derailing. Nobody’s people or ancestry is entirely pure, and free of having done bad things in the past.

Being pedantic, of course the Canaanites existed. That’s exactly what the Hebrews/Israelites were. There’s no evidence whatsoever that any of the massacres of other Canaanites and destructions of their cities ever occurred, and considerable evidence that they didn’t. It was all a lot of big talk.

Let’s not exaggerate. There were laws against sodomy in a number of states — certainly not all or most — that were in effect, though rarely prosecuted, until the Lawrence decision in 2003. That’s not the same as homosexuality being “illegal” in the U.S.A., and not the same as capital punishment for homosexuality, as…

The kind of hedgehog that people keep as a pet is a different species, from North Africa, that’s only a small fraction of the size — one would fit in the palm of your hand. My ex and I had one when our son was little. Sometimes, we would let her out to run around, because the cat never took an interest in her. She was…

Most of the people accused of being neoliberals aren’t for any of those things, except probably free trade. Again, that list sounds a great deal like the typical description of a neoconservative, especially if you add interventionism abroad.

Look at the definition of “genocide” again. If Israel has been responsible for genocide, it’s the most unsuccessful one in history.

I happen to find Primo Levi’s work the most powerful of all Holocaust first-person memoirs.

“Neoliberal” is applied to any Democrat they don’t like, just as “Neoconservative” — which seems to have exactly the same meaning — is applied to all Republicans who aren’t social conservatives. It’s become simply a buzzword.

You forgot CIA provocateurs. Honey trap!

Fuck you. My mother was a German-Jewish survivor and lost most of her family, who were murdered because they were Jews. I’m trans and my son is gay. So I’ll say anything I damn well please about the Holocaust, and have every right to do so. Forget Elie Wiesel; if you bothered reading what I wrote, you’d see that I disa…

Fuck you. My mother was a survivor who lost most of her family. I’m trans, and my son is gay. I’ll say whatever the fuck I like, you shmuck.

The extermination of the Roma was genuinely a part of the Holocaust. I suspect this is an explanation for his views on the Roma during the Shoah. http://observer.com/2007/01/forgiv…

My mother was a survivor as well, who lost most of her family, and it’s probably the central fact of my existence, as it was of hers.

There were all these stories a few years ago that Cimino had transitioned. Never confirmed, I guess.

Talk about false equivalence. As I said above, what you’re doing is exactly parallel to the “All Lives Matter” idiots. God forbid his views should have been influenced by his own experiences and background.

What you’re doing here by derailing the conversation is exactly what people do when they insist that “all lives matter” in response to Black Lives Matter activists. God forbid that his views were influenced by his personal background and experiences. You are the asshole.

The cops separated her mother from the TSA agents and wouldn’t let her try to explain to the TSA. So the poor girl was left to cope by herself with having her head slammed to the ground, while the cops restrained her mother.

The mother said she tried to get to the TSA agents to tell them that her daughter didn’t understand what they were directing her to do, but the police restrained her from getting there. Of course!

It’s spelled “privilege,” so I do hope that it wasn’t the subject of your dissertation.

Thank you! It was quite an experience when I saw the movie for the first time.