Yes, I do think there’s a meaningful difference. As a Jewish person the difference between “I want to hurt your feelings” and “I genuinely agree with the tenets of the Nazi party” is pretty fucking meaningful to me.
Yes there’s a practical difference. I’m a Jewish person. If I think a person in my neighbourhood is a troll then I’m rolling my eyes and thinking of ways to solve this problem through education campaigns and changes to laws. If I think someone in my neighbourhood is an actual Nazi I’m buying a fucking shotgun.
The left is going to fail miserably at the distinction. The left has a knack for watering down legitimate forms of hate so that when it actually occurs, no one is paying attention to them because everyone is tired of hearing them cry “wolf!”.
Trolling IRL and everyone fell for it. NYC had this issue with trains in the 70's. Just paint over it and never give it another thought. Why are people giving this oxygen? Brooklyn is hardly the epicenter of anti-semitism.
This is one of the few cases where I don’t doubt that the person who did this was some schmuck kid/young adult who was trying to troll people. You are in Brooklyn and out of all the places to tag your anti-Semitic hate, you tag a children’s playground who happens to be named after one of the Beastie Boys. Also, you…
This post comes across as petty, mean-spirited, and ill-informed, IMO.
I feel like Kubrick just destroyed her during that film. Broke her on a way that just was too cruel and unnecessary just to get a character on film.
I have come around to this viewpoint, didn’t like her when I was younger/have more patience for the character now that I am older. Once, I was reading the comments on the Shining IMDB message board and someone made the point that it was Wendy who was actually doing all the tasks to maintain the hotel, Jack was sitting…
Did you really just equate Dr. Phil to Syria