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Again, no, I do not misunderstand the original point, I don't care about the original point, my criticism is that your comparison of genocide to getting gently poked in the ribs is minimizing genocide. Not a single thing you've said has in any way refuted that, you keep talking about the point of the analogy, but I'm not talking about the point of the analogy.
What makes you think I don't live in America? I do.
Everything else is just you screaming and throwing a fit over what you assume I believe, which is completely irrelevant to the conversation. The only point I'm interested in discussing with you is how you're minimizing genocide by comparing it to being gently poked in the ribs.
Oh for the love of god! What they’re saying that you’re not understanding is that if-
Providing arms to Israel = 1
Being a rapist = 2
Having 34 felony convictions = 3
“Dictator for a day” = 4
“Help Israel “finish the job” = 5
Project 2025 = 6
Abolishing body autonomy for women = 7 Abolishing the rights of the LGBTQ + = 8
Attacking American citizens with their own military = 9
And being able to execute people that he doesn’t like = 10
…. Then:
• Harris = 1
• Trump = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
THIS IN NO WAY MINIMIZES ANYTHING.
Hopefully this can end your confusion and settle this derailment of the topic.
I have no confusion on the issue at all. I have understood that that was the point of the comparison from the start, but what I've been very clear on is that I'm not talking about the point of the comparison, I am talking about the appropriateness of comparing mass slaughter to getting "gently poked in the ribs" for any reason to make any point. Talking about the point of the comparison is the derailment.
Why don't you try listening to what I'm saying instead of making assumptions about my criticism that have nothing to do with anything I said, and then condescending to me about how I'm "confused" and "failing to understand?" I have absolutely no confusion about the point, which again I understood from the beginning, but regardless of the point, comparing genocide to getting gently poked in the ribs is minimizing genocide. I don't see how anyone could possibly disagree with that.
No one is comparing mass slaughter to being poked in the ribs. This has been explained to you.
Purposefully missing the point is a form of trolling. And it’s ends now.
The person I responded to directly made that comparison, and at no point has even denied that they have. I have not "purposefully missed the point" I have been very clear about the nature of my criticism from the start, including the fact that it has nothing to do with the point of the comparison, only the comparison itself.
If you want to ban me for saying that an ongoing genocide shouldn't ever be compared to getting gently poked in the ribs, if you think that position is "trolling" then go right ahead. All you'll be doing is making an absolute mockery of yourself.
They explained their point to you many times. I stepped in to explain it to you as well. Yet you continue to argue even after you say you understood their point and that the intent isn’t to minimize the suffering in Palestine.
This ends NOW.
And I've explained to both you and them many times that the point is irrelevant. And you are completely ignoring that and continue talking about the point of the comparison, which is again, completely irrelevant to my actual criticism.