'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture

Re:'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israe... by dang on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:00PM (#38621728)

Please don't post in the battle style in this thread, as I explained at the top of the thread. It's particularly important with this painful and volatile topic.

You shouldn't be doing that generally on HN, either, and unfortunately your comments (as I've been attempting to communicate to you) have swung too far in the flamewar direction in recent months (or maybe the last year or two, I'm not sure). You've been a good HN contributor for a long time before that, so if you'd please revert to status quo ante, we'd appreciate it.

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Re:'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israe... by rayiner on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @10:41PM (#38622354)

Was it the snark in the first sentence?

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Re:'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israe... by dang on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:03AM (#38623290)

Yes, that plus the overgeneralization in "The Arabs believe" and the overtones of religious flamewar in "affront to Islam".

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Re:'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israe... by rayiner on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:31AM (#38623806)

“The Arabs” are a group of societies that have a readily ascertainable position on Israel and to whom the Holy Land belongs. Whether individual members of those societies might dissent from that view is neither here nor there. Individuals are irrelevant to what’s happening in Israel and Palestine.

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Re:'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israe... by dang on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:37PM (#38633816)

Inflammatory and polemical generalizations about ethnic groups aren't a good idea here. Even if you don't intend them that way, there's way too much surface area to land painfully on.

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