The Comment of the Day was inspired by the short post focusing on the video above, in which people who have been doubtless throwing up comments on social media about the poor, abused citizens of Gaza and Israeli “genocide” were confronted with easily available facts regarding the how the endless Palestinian conflict is fueled by decades of demonizing Jews, and were shocked–shocked!—that indoctrination and propaganda have consequences.
Sarah B., (not to be confused with Sarah Bales, who is also an ace commenter) as is her wont, posted in response two trenchant comments which I am combining as one. I’ll divide them with a page break to “split the baby” regarding the current complaints regarding the new WordPress page break system.
Here is Sarah’s Comment of the Day on the post, “Briefly noted…”:
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Yes, being this ignorant is a problem, but the big question now is where were they to learn this? Surely not in school. As an early millennial, we sort of covered the Muslims in the Crusades, where the Muslims were poor, abused peaceful people who were abused by those nasty Catholics, skipping the years upon decades upon centuries of aggression beforehand. I watched footage of the Twin Towers my senior year, as parts of it were happening, but was cautioned not to think that this was done by Muslims, but instead some ragtag extremists.
The indoctrination has only gotten worse, I believe. And since it was already evil to think Muslims could be other than peaceful when I was in school, and the fact that several of my contemporaries who got pregnant right out of high school are already grandparents, that means we are multiple generations of indoctrination in. Other than my favorite option of razing the DOE to the ground, salting it, and going back to private tutors/mini-schools/homeschools, what can be done? If you are told the same thing by everyone, and it is common knowledge, why would you even think to look at another viewpoint. Only the old fogies, who are Islamophobes say otherwise and we already know to ignore Boomers.
We have an education crisis, but rather than calling those who suffer from it morons and unethical, we should celebrate things like this that start to explain how the real world works to those who have been brainwashed into believing falsehoods.
Ethics Alarms 
Jack, Sarah B. and Sarah Bales are two different women, and this comment came from Sarah B.
OH NO!!!! I’m sorry. I get variations on user names all the time and wasn’t paying attention. I’ll fix it….
I saw that first one and thought “COTD”, didn’t see the second which may be better than the first.
When I was in a business law class (night school) way back when, the instructor, who was a sitting judge, had us do an exercise – for the topic just discussed, stated our opinions for, and defended (affirmative action, as it were), take the opposite position and defend it as hard as we did our own. This was a graded exercise, if which we didn’t have many for the class.
We were all shocked and surprised to say the least. So all of us but one, did so. He couldn’t/ wouldn’t do it. She said he’d get a zero, and it would affect his grade, he might not pass. He didn’t care, he’d take the class again. You can guess which side of the aisle he was on, btw.
As noted above, this was night school, we were all over 30 at the time, I think he was mid 40s. And this was 30 years ago!
Now, that guy is the majority.
And my daughter is that way. I tried to raise her to think critically, but the modern education system got to her. And she’s no dummy, she got all four years of college paid for on a scholarship.
In the immortal words of Metallica, sad but true (yes, I know the phrase is ancient – and at this point, so is Metallica… yeesh – but I like the way they say it…).
The real thing that needs to be seen is the Hezbollah/Iran guys talking about how they invest in western university student protestors and muslim agitators.
To paraphrase Trump- someone needs to show the video to the pope!
My opinion is this: The video’d roundtable discussion was staged by an obvious pro-Zionist activist. It is a sham. I am very surprised that you-plural don’t see that. The founding of Israel involved very real and very consequential violence against people living there with an established culture. And the hatred generated is ‘logical’. At the present time the Israeli hatred of Palestinians is just as vocal and visible. See Abby Martin’s journalism.
You-plural imagine yourselves to be free of propagandized opinions and thought. That is self-deception: your ideas seem to me not arrived at by genuine study but what comes off your TeleScreens. Do research: for example Miko Peled, son of a general in the very early founding days. He justifies Palestinian anger and validates it. You-plural do what is typically American: your chosen enemies have NO JUSTIFICATION in opposing you. Ever. It is like you are God’s own children and you can do no wrong. Self-analysis would do no harm. But I do not think you will. And that fits with the Zionist program.
And you crow and squawk in perfect unison, in a hermetic sound chamber where you talk back and forth sharing the tenets of the Boomer Regime Ideology (sorry, but my frustration is genuine and do not take it personally) in an ever-shrinking conversation because you shut yourselves from a sincere examination of the REAL FACTS.
But morons you are not! Not by any means. You seem to me victims of information channels just like those you criticize constantly. You’re just on the other, attached pole of a dysfunctional opinion-system.
Abby Martin sharing her views of her experiences in Israel.
Make of it what you will …
I should say that I am amazed by your-plural capacity to lie, yet you YOURSELVES explain it! It is first the channels of information and propaganda that provides you your view if the world. The part that confuses me is that dealing with “critical thought’. You are members of an educated class. In certain domains you MUST think critically. But when it comes to cherished political opinions, those built by propaganda narratives: you’re just as bad as your hated opposition. The Demonic Democrats.
Can’t you be honest!? Just say: “no me importa el culo de una rata what is true or what is just”. The Israelis at least have that down to a science: They are unmoved by any moral or ethical arguments. Thus they don’t suffer that horrifying (American) hypocrisy.
NOTE FROM JACK: I’m in a mass tech breakdown and without access to a computer. Please post a comment or two noting that I’m not dead and will be back posting ASAP?