Recent comments in /f/Connecticut

Darondo t1_jdhji9g wrote

The most common criticism is that ADL equates Palestinian sympathy or anything critical of Israel’s government as anti-semitism. On their own website they patronizingly explain how “free Palenstine” is offensive and anti-Semitic. Historically, they also are disingenuous about their “rising anti-semitism” updates. But in OP’s post they stick to actual incident quantity instead of results from surveys with leading questions, so that’s an improvement.

Other criticisms include participation in CIA and FBI psyops and intelligence gathering operations but I won’t get into that.

All this doesn’t change the fact that anti-semitism is on the rise, and it is scary.

ADL deserves criticism and skepticism. Other people hate the ADL because they’re antisemites. And of course some people like to conflate ADL criticism with anti-sematism which is dumb.

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dfeld1989 t1_jdhj7rn wrote

Google it... ("it's all about the benjamins" "getting a calming feeling about the holocaust"..) and I'm sure you've heard about jewish space lasers at the other end of the political aisle. The point is can we for once not politicize something? This isn't a party politics issue.

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nuttmegganarchist t1_jdhhx7l wrote

No not inherently. It’s about how you criticize them. Criticism from a factual basis is not for the most part unless you’re using facts but leaving key information out on purpose as a way push forward antisemitic ideas. If you’re wondering why your statement is antisemitic and not a valid criticism I would definitely recommend looking into how long people who are antisemitic have been accusing the Jewish community of being some sort of “propaganda machine” and what effects that has had.

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Aaron351 t1_jdhfzdb wrote

Nobody said that this winter would be cold, in fact everyone (those qualified to speak on the subject) said quite the opposite. Oil prices did skyrocket, considering it went from ~$3/gal to almost $6.

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iabmob t1_jdhfy25 wrote

Head just south of Middletown to Durham! there's a loop I do to clear my head that takes me around by Lyman orchards, south through Durham main st and then take a left on higganum rd after the Dari serv. It brings you out at higganum. Then I just take 154 up back towards Middletown. It's gotta be really dark at night so take care.

If you want longer drives I also like going south on 77 or 79 out of Durham.

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Raynosaurus t1_jdhehgh wrote

Discrimination is wrong - living in a big society does however come with the challenge of having some extreme viewpoints that are going to be lingering around. To put it into perspective, if there were 68 incidents (and let's assume each incident was 5 unique perpetrators) then once every 5 days 0.0094% of the population of CT decided to discriminate against a Jewish person, objectively bad but not alarming imo. Fund education!

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