Re:Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president
by nailer on Thursday January 04, 2024 @03:17PM
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> Israel is fully justified in cutting off supplies to Gaza because Gaza is independent of Israel
I didn't write that.
What I did write - that Israel is under no obligation to give Gaza free utilities - is true.
Hamas openly does support genocide, see the Hamas charter.
Re:Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president
by tptacek on Thursday January 04, 2024 @03:47PM
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See, this is what I'm talking about. I agree about Hamas. I think most people do. But by inserting it unbidden into a response like this, you invite someone to either (a) misinterpret your point, or (b) worse, to challenge it --- and the only people who are going to do that are precisely the people you shouldn't want to see chiming in.
Worth noting maybe that the three of us on this thread are some of the last people keeping this unproductive conversation going, across the whole site. I'll do my best to reduce that count now!
But there are so many land mines in these conversations --- like, and I'm not trying to pick on you here, "Israel is fully justified in cutting off supplies to Gaza because Gaza is independent of Israel" --- that threads spiral off into repetitive and increasingly emotive flame wars.
I think this is probably just not a very good topic for HN. Lots of important topics aren't good fits for a moderated, open-access, anonymous Internet message board catering largely to technologists. That's OK! There's a whole big Internet out there.