Like are we supposed to be amused by his casual tone regarding war orphans? Haha, remember that time we thought about lifting a child who has witnessed horrible atrocities out of poverty and giving him/her a new family, but then we didn’t because that’s obviously fucking crazy. Hahahaha.

I want to interview him holding a spray bottle and every time he says something horrible I will spray him right in his goddamn face. STOP SCRATCHING THE FURNITURE FRANZEN. YOU ARE WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS.

“Kathy”

Jonathan Franzen is so far up his own butthole he’s about to create a singularity

Ladies, we can sign a collective agreement to stop fucking this? Kathy, that includes you.

They could not kill them. They spare the lives of white people that pull guns on them all the time.

This! I’m a liberal American Jew who has been accused of internalized anti-Semitism many times. I’ve even accused myself of it. But I’ve spent a lot of time working through that and come to the conclusion that I’m not anti-Semitic, but I am anti-Israel, and I find a lot of Israel’s defenders can’t separate the two.

I think that years of Israel defenders immediately invoking the Holocaust and anti-semitism has erased any good will.

Why is anyone surprised?

Yeah... they have one of the lowest rates of accepting refugees in the developed world. They’re hardly being overrun.

Excuse me, WHY DO YOU HATE ALL JEWISH PEOPLE EVER AND WANT A SECOND HOLOCAUST?!

no this also must be incorrect are you suggesting it is impossible to have a nuanced discussion about Israel on the internet?

Lawd, did you just dare to make any sort of critique of Israel? You ready the dismiss button and I’ll prepare to flag away.

I WAS ASSURED THAT ISRAEL IS A PERFECT UTOPIA FOR EVERYONE

YOU DONE IT NOW GIRL

Israel and good conscience are oxymorons.

part of me thinks this is a lingering israeli problem with brown people

The Happiest Unhappiest Place On Earth.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this also a country who essentially guarantees citizenship to anyone fleeing persecution from from another ‘life choice’ i.e. religion?

What, just like “heres a list of women and LGBT people”? What are you talking about dude? People who cheat on spouses: assholes. Women and LGBT people: normal people that did nothing wrong.