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| DATE | 2016-11-14 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] I'm sure it's a coincidence, part n+1
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Quoting mayer ilovitz (pmamayeri-at-gmail.com):
> My point was specific to the ADL under Greenblatt, who tends to
> function more as an Obama/DNC/Progressive attack dog these days in
> support of Obama/Progressive policies & objectives instead of
> fighting against anti-semitism. As such, anything coming from him
> should not be taken as unbiased.
See, I can't help noticing that you and Ruben both love to say '$Person
is $Badthing, and therefore everything he/she says should be
ignored', when the question was not whether $Person should be trusted
but rather he/she happened to be _correct_.
Specifically: A brief look at the pretty clear anti-Semitic appeals in
the final Trump ads right before Election Day strike me as supporting
moderate concern, irrespective of whether Mr. Greenblatt is $Badthing or
not, especially coming on top of a bunch of similar moves before that --
and especially immediately before Mr. Trump picked that alt-right
neo-Nazi Bannon as his White House chief strategist. The pattern is
pretty clearly disturbing. (You and Ruben say it's coincidental. I
hope you're right.)
You also might or might not (you tell me) be indulging Ruben's
characteristic habit of pronouncing dishonest and worthless a remarkably
broad cross-section of, er., almost everyone, e.g., The New Yorker
maagazine, the New York Times, the New York Post, Reuters News Agency,
the ADL, and a big long list of others I'm not calling to mind
immediately. Ruben even said categorically that 'anything Reuters says
is a lie', even when Fortune, Bloomberg, and Fox Business Network all
say the same thing.
The point is, this is how people practice epistemic closure on
themselves.
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