Comment on YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon

• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.** If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.**

  -Jean-Paul Sartre

  source

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Spoken like a true cultist.

    source

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Noted “true cultist”, Jean-Paul Sartre

      source

      • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lol, oh Lord no. Misusing someone words like this to support you cultlike beliefs silly.

        source

        • -> View More Comments