[–] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

This is an insane expectation. Pointing out that Jews are not oppressed today is not making Jewish critics of Zionism less welcome. You wouldn't hold anyone to this level of standard for any other people. There is nothing in there that should be offensive to you as a Jewish person, unless you kill babies or are a Jewish Exceptionalist. There is zero anti-jewish sentiment in there. In fact, OP's post reeks of Jewish Exceptionalism.

Most of those things that was said could also very easily apply to white people, but if I had said that about white people, it absolutely wouldn't make White critics of racism any less welcome.

In fact, let's do it. Let's replace "Jew" with "white" in that comment.

White people, tell me if I am making you less welcome :

White people today are at the top of a racial hierarchy that exists in western society. Nobody should be worrying about "anti-white sentiment" any more than they should have worried about anti German sentiment or anti Italian sentiment during world war two.

If somebody says "fuck white people", it is not as offensive as if somebody said "f-black people". Black people are actually oppressed in society whereas white people are not.

White supremacists expect us to treat them better, put them on a pedestal while they are already at the top of the chain. There is a genocide going on. Calling a German a "kraut" wasn't offensive during the second world war.

The vast majority of white people live in the imperial core where racist systems exist to maintain their privileged position. They enjoy much better wealth and social prestige than others.

Apart from fringe black-nationalists, anti-white racism is not a thing. Nobody really hates white people for being white. In fact, many non-white people people internalize and support racist systems inadvertently to the benefit of white people. White people are afforded privileges for being white in every part of the world, and especially in the imperial core.

The US is a white-supremacist hotspot internationally. All white institutions in the imperial core should be dismantled. Explicitly non-racist institutions should be the only ones that should remain.

Fuck all the white people who kill babies and support killing babies.

Oh look at me making all the white people feel less welcome.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Free will consists in understanding, little by little, the laws of necessity and then applying this knowledge, little by litle, to practice. And with practice it's the same thing. Through practice we derive our knowledge quantitavely

    This is not free will. You are operating with a custom definition of free will that only you subscribe to.

    Free will is not the ability to independently act as independent agents. Free will is the ability to make your own decisions unimpeded and independent of external factors. Life doesn't have this. Humans are limited to doing things that their brain allows them to by nature of how it's wired. You cannot recite the entire works of Shakespeare off the cuff right now, even if you will yourself to do it so hard right now. That information is simply not in your brain right now.

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