Mehdi isn’t smart enough to realize it, but this is actually a telling inadvertent admission from him.
Over a thousand Palestinian militants were killed inside Israel on 10/7 and the days after. These were terrorists who invaded to murder, rape, and start a war. Here Mehdi treats those terrorists as innocent victims thus showing he views any Israeli response as illegitimate and justifying the “genocide” tag.
Not only was Israel not allowed to pursue the terror army into Gaza, but even fighting back inside Israel was apparently evidence of genocide for people like him. They simply refuse to differentiate between fighting a clearly defensible war and committing a genocide so arguments about whether Israel crossed some lines at some point become irrelevant.
*Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done"
WTF?!! Since when was math something that was only done at the request of professional mathematicians?!!
Mathematicians don't own mathematics! This is crazy!!
@lwoodhouse@Gingongthecat@Timodc Then it’s confusing you would say the dumb shit you just said about models feeling pain. They don’t feel. They arent they. They arent, even. What are we doing here?
This is one ways weird elements of the progressive academic bureaucracy routinely get legitimated: policies that are culturally contestable and politically debatable get reframed as neutral, quasi-scientific, pseudo-medical “best practices” that promote “wellness” and “health.”