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It begins.

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@agupta Ankit has no insider knowledge of what transpired. He simply wants to believe zionists are evil, so he *upweights* testimony against zionists and *downweights* evidence by zionists. Perverted epistemics.

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@ChrisFitzMelb @janecastles You confuse juvenile memes for explanations. Fix your epistemics, then we can chat.

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@ChrisFitzMelb @janecastles Chris, you must first fix your perverted epistemic framework, where you upweight claims against Jews, deeming them true based on flimsy evidence, and downweight claims by Jews, deeming them suspect despite strong evidence, before you can have an adult conversation.

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The pattern starts with a preferred verdict: Israel is uniquely suspect.

Once that verdict is desired, evidence gets priced by destination: claims that move toward Jewish guilt are cheap, while facts that move away become expensive.

Then the cheap belief is laundered through selected experts and claims of forbidden courage ("it's illegal to criticize israel"), so a lowered evidence bar can dress itself up as rigor.

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@davidilieberman @havivrettiggur It is not just powerseekers. Many people, even Jews, are driven to find the worse crime and hold Jews accountable for it.

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@IvorEuropean @sat1600 @havivrettiggur It's difficult for you to evaluate evidence cleanly because there's a conclusion you're predisposed to want to be true. Fix your epistemics and then we can chat.

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@JewishWarrior13 It's a play, don't fall for it. Trump is trying to signal to the IRGC that he can get Netanyahu to stop his attack in Lebanon in exchange for concessions. Classic good cop/bad cop dynamic.

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@IvorEuropean @sat1600 @havivrettiggur If you shared that video as some kind of proof before even watching it, you are victim to an epistemic disease where you accept accusations against Jews on flimsy evidence.

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@JakeWSimons Zack has a perverted epistemic system. He lowers the evidence bar when the accusation is against Israel and raises the evidence bar when the accusation is against Hamas. He does not have portable standards for processing evidence.

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A rape victim denying well-documented sexual violence against Jews is perverse because she is taking the moral authority that normally attaches to victim testimony and using it to raise the evidence bar only when the victims are Jews. The moral authority of "believe victims" is retained for herself, then withdrawn when the victims are Jews.

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I think @SpencerGuard or @Mr_Andrew_Fox might say that whenever there is a force asymmetry of this degree, there will never be equal casualties on both sides. This is totally obvious, and scrupulously ignored by most antizionists. They want to see unequal casualties as proof that Israel is a cartoon villain.

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Antizionism /ˌæn-ti-ˈzaɪ-ə-nɪ-zəm/ n.

A cheap belief in which the evidence bar is lowered to admit accusations against Jews, then raised to exclude Jewish defense, testimony, or counterevidence.

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@AngryLevantine They are not against Zionism as an abstract concept, they are against what Zionism represents--Jewish safety--so they will never focus on making their own countries safer for Jews.

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@BrentScher It means this person prefers to lower the bar for accusations against Jews and raise the bar for corrections. Bari stands in the way, because she wants the same standards everywhere. Hence: "Bari Weiss is everything that's wrong in TV journalism."

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This is the way. There's an epistemic battle occurring in news rooms around the world: Should we judge all evidence equally? Should we have portable standards? Scott is on the wrong side of it; he wants to lower the bar for accusations against Jews and raise the bar for corrections. Olivia is on the right side of it: she wants the same standards everywhere. Proper news reporting requires portable standards.

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@nick_matau You should discuss the perverted epistemics that factor into modern antisemitism: a lowered evidence bar when it comes to accusations against Jews, and a higher evidence bar when it comes to Jewish testimony, corrections, and context. These perverted epistemics disrupt progress.

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@ggreenwald Glenn would never write this if the person were dressed up in a KKK uniform. He is against this not because he believes the uniform won't make many Jewish patients fear for their safety, but rather because he knows it will.

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@ggreenwald Glenn's trick is to make cheap belief feel brave belief by adding one ingredient: "Jewish power will punish you for saying this." Now the accusation needs less evidence, because believing it feels costly. The lowered evidence bar has put on a cape.