Rubric

It's not about being right or wrong. Like I said before, people's safety and comfort > freedom of expression. In the compound phrase “safety and comfort” you manage a blurring ...

Correct me if I'm wrong Rubric, but it sounds like you think the people who are effected by and respond negatively to bigotry and intolerance are the villains, not the ...

I think blanket bans are a terrible idea, made even worse by the ongoing problems of enforcement already discussed (and raised by Karzkin in the same post). I also think ...

Rob expecting us to focus on the actions of Hamas to the exclusion of Israel in a topic designed to categorise and analyse the military actions of Israel is fallacious. ...

So just to clarify, you support Netanyahu's argument that by daring to investigate Israel for breaches of human rights, the UNHRC is being unreasonable? Keeping in mind that, unlike Israel, ...

"The final authority on whether or not something is cultural appropriation is a person belonging to the culture being appropriated." And when people within that culture disagree?

I'm guessing just naming other contributors wouldn't be an appropriate way to engage with this thread. I like the shift toward structured debates, and it would be good to see ...

The great thing is that even if every word from Netanyahu in that reference was the Gospel Truth, it would do nothing to exonerate his state from the war crimes ...

I'm going to name my car "The Nation of Israel", park it anywhere I want, and claim religious and racial persecution when anyone so much as frowns at me for ...

I believe that god created the world not using evolution because I doubt that man is a single-celled organism and I doubt that God is. [emphasis added] I feel like ...

This pretty much convinces me you've never read the Bible. I don't even mean cover to cover, I just mean as a serious endeavor. I mean, comparing, by implication, books ...

I think the low regard in which Israel is increasingly and quite broadly held in many countries in the west is tied to unmet potential. We can look back at ...

Robster. Be better than this. No-one here has expressed widespread support for the destruction of the Jewish people. No-one here has expressed support for a plurality of countries in their ...

The 1967 Borders are somewhat problematic, but represent a good starting point. From them, you can establish what land-swaps will be necessary between the two states to make up for ...

Kyl I fail to see how that particular part of my post was denigrating Your comment was sarcastic, and you were making the point to Karzkin rather than someone who ...