Bouvard on Antizionism and Antisemitism Legal Distinctions
This probably won't come up in the SOTU, but this stuff is getting more and more interesting:
@slooperbia50068 I can't say I'm familiar with this particular arrangement or "genre" but if the goal is to counter her report (which only gets "problematic" in the next to last sentence) in a way that makes other more likely to stay with you I would go for something a bit more allowing for
@slooperbia50068 various preferences (maybe she prefers someone more reserved, etc.)
@slooperbia50068 Well, why is she antizionist?
@slooperbia50068 This guy is arguing from the standpoint of anti-discrimination law and I would agree that there are difficulties with treating antizionism as antisemitism in that context. But those laws, anyway, concern conduct, not belief, and if you block Jewish students from crossing campus
@slooperbia50068 or going to their classes, either way you're discriminating against Jews (actually, the university would be by not ensuring these impediments are removed).
@slooperbia50068 But up until there she's just saying she's repulsed by your "reactionary" views which anyone sharing or unbothered by those views would simply disregard.
@slooperbia50068 You don't need a unicorn to divide Jew from Jew, but it may very well be true that a majority of young Jews are antizionist. In my opinion, that just means they're on their way out of Judaism, but that has no legal weight. But I would put it this way: Jews will always be
@slooperbia50068 "presumptively" Zionist, which means they will always be expected to disavow it. Such disavowals, though, must satisfy the antizionist "community," for whom no disavowal will ever be enough--every Jew will ultimately be "tainted" with Zionism in some way. Antizionist Jews
@slooperbia50068 therefore have to bend over backwards to prove their bona fides, and even that will never be enough. So, yes, in the end, antizionism targets all Jews, including the antizionist ones.
@slooperbia50068 Think about the difference between denying someone's job application because he is Jewish vs. denying it because he is Zionist. The first fits comfortably into existing legal frameworks; the latter much less so, because it's a "belief" not a "characteristic."
@slooperbia50068 Yes, this is worth trying.
@slooperbia50068 In the end, you're looking for "customers" here, aren't you? So, all you can do is present yourself as welcomingly as possible to the kind of people you'd like to welcome. You can't really argue with people about something like this.
@slooperbia50068 It's like a dating site--how do you control people's impressions of you?
@slooperbia50068 There's no tribunal here.
@slooperbia50068 I think it would be a hard case to make and not worth pursuing.
@slooperbia50068 I think some will agree with your view of the role of alcohol in facilitating social interaction.
@slooperbia50068 Here we're heading into areas where I wouldn't know what to suggest.
@slooperbia50068 Everyone knows to read online reviews skeptically.
@slooperbia50068 Well, OK, a bit of hyperbole there.
@slooperbia50068 Then it's just her word against yours.
@slooperbia50068 This seems like an AirBnB but the owner of the place is there. There must be Terms of Service governing reviews, then, right?
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