Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)Violet, you're clearly intelligent enough to understand that pelsar was not making any actual comment about the Palestinians resembling Nazis but was facetiously satirizing the sort of accusations commonly leveled towards Israel. This was done to highlight the lack of intellectual honesty and critical thinking that are the hallmarks of these sorts of posts. If the post was bigoted or unfair then it did its job. To take it at face value and demand an apology is to ignore the post's meaning in favor of taking the easy road and attacking its language. It is reminiscent of those American high schools that banned Huck Finn on account of its racist language while paradoxically ignoring the novel's deeper anti-racist message.
edit: just read through the whole thread. Please ignore above.