Intelligent reasoning, but how does one stay calm, reasoned, and respectful when faced with those who plan to reward the killers of Hamas with their own nation, a nation they have demonstrated will be used to launch murderous attacks on peaceful towns and families? The Tunnel Dweller.
. . ." When no one is physically standing there, acting as our mirror and sending body language signals that our opinions are coming off as harsh, arrogant, and off-putting, then we have less chance to rein ourselves in."
"It’s commonly observed that political vitriol is stronger than ever before in recent memory. The left thinks the right is a bunch of Nazis ready to Sieg Heil to Trump whenever possible, while the right thinks the left is a bunch of tone-deaf, cross-dressing terrorists, ready to riot on cue. The great rift is growing ever wider and never the twain shall meet, it seems.
"Have you ever considered just how much social media has contributed to this state of things? Yes, I know that social media is everyone’s favorite whipping boy, and as such, we all – myself included – zone out when it’s mentioned. But this time social media’s role in the great political divide struck me in a different way. To illustrate, imagine the following scenario with me:
"You’re friends on Facebook with several people you’ve known in person for years. You thought they shared your viewpoints and beliefs, but you’re now realizing they think differently than you do on a variety of topics, as they’ve frequently aired their opinions on their Facebook, X, Instagram, or TikTok spaces. You still appreciate their friendship, so you mentally resolve never to bring up the topics they just posted about on social media in a real life conversation."This works for a while, but as they keep posting their opinions, you keep adding items to the list of things which must not be named. Pretty soon, all you can do is talk about the weather, and you eventually drift apart from those longtime friends.
"Unless I miss my guess, you’ve probably experienced some form of the above story in recent years. I certainly have. Maybe we’ve even been the culprits, regularly sharing our opinions on various social platforms.
“ 'So what?” people may say. “It’s a free country, we have a right to air our opinions whenever and wherever we want.”
"And that’s absolutely true. But what we often fail to realize is that the very ease with which we can air our opinions to a nameless and faceless crowd may encourage us to word things far more strongly than we would in a face-to-face setting." . . . More
Netanyahu added that “no nation can accept a genocidal terrorist organization, an organization committed to its annihilation, a stone’s throw from its citizens.”
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