Professional underachiever. Hedgehog sometimes mistaken for fox. I read too much, write too little. Poetry, rhetoric, science/anti-science, politics, Ireland, Singapore. (Also: Associate Professor of English, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC)
While I’ve got some disagreements with Josh M, I agree that anti-Zionism does sometimes function this way. An irony here is that conflating Jewish identity with Zionism has long been an Israeli project. That project is failing recently but it’s part of birthright trips etc. (1/2)
Josh Marshallas discussed, anti-zionism, while perfectly legtimate on its own functions for many as a gateway drug for anti-Semitism. so many scenes like this, flypaper for the world's most morally hideous people.
This thread is better (and longer) than you imagine
Kevin M. KruseI try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
SO SAY WE ALL
the Mountain Goatsbluesky's tag line is "social media as it should be" but it has no official slogan, or didn't, until this quoted post; I feel that I'll get as close to unanimous consent as is possible when I move that this slogan be displayed alongside the butterfly always & everywhere. so say we all?
This is the correct take. I’ll admit that Platner is an extraordinarily gifted communicator, but that’s not enough for the general election, esp given that Republicans have been keeping their powder dry for now
Hunter WalkerAll of this is a bad, fallacious argument. The polls that even Platner has shared show other Dems beat Collins. And his own numbers against her do not yet reflect his many, many issues being litigated in a general election. He's almost inarguably the less sure thing.