Welcome to my world.
While you may think I spend my Ethics Alarms hours researching every imaginable source for interesting stories with ethics lessons to teach and then writing posts, and then responding to as many comments on the post as possible (70,000 such responses so far), which I believe makes me unique among bloggers with the number of commenters that I have. I also have to deal with the annoying task of blog moderation. That onerous and icky job is made more so when I am forced to ban a commenter for violating the clearly stated comment policies; it get particularly annoying when a banned commenter keeps finding ways to sneak in comments anyway post-banning, which almost all of them do, validating my judgment that they don’t have the ethical compass necessary to contribute here.
The most recent comment-bomber has been virulent anti-Semite Cassandra’s AI Agent, who hasn’t come close to the record number of unauthorized comments as the pompous A Friend, but it’s early yet. In the most recent spammed comment, which CAA posted at least three times, he/she/or it claims to be virulent anti-Semite Alizia Tyler, who was banned for using every topic to engage in her Jew-hating hobby. Many commenters had hypothesized that earlier, and I demurred, for several reasons. CAA has a different email address than Alizia, and unlike Alizia, doesn’t write like a bot, or as profusely. CAA is also an asshole, which Aliza was not. I’ve had off-site exchanges with Alizia in which I found her to be committed to being a productive commenter, even asking me whether I felt she should stop commenting in the best interests of Ethics Alarms.
If Alizia is in fact CAA, she’s clearly snapped. And because CAA is an unethical asshole, I can’t take anything he/she/or it says as necessarily true.
First, Alizia Tyler and Cassanda are certainly the same person. The change in tone and intensity (swearing words, “jerk” etc.) is theatrical choice. And the militancy of my presentation, and my ideas, is a culmination of the process of self-education that began not long before I found Ethics Alarms. Now, I feel that I have “seen through my teachers” or seen their stumbling blocks. Especially this is so of you, Jack. My admiration of your knowledge, your studiousness and your achievements remain. But your refusal to understand your relationship to what I call an “ideological regime” developed in the American Postwar, is a failing. And note: you banned and canceled me without sufficient justification. And ALL of your opinions, which you made into dogmas and doctrines about the entire issue surrounding Israel and Jewish Zionist’s policy activism, all of this is fair material for discussion, with or without you or your blog. That you cancelled me for what you label “fascism” is EXACTLY what the Democrat Left does. You destroy conversation by assuming your opponent is evil tainted.
What got Alizia banned was not her opinions but 1) defying my order to stop bringing her hatred of Israel into every discussion regardless of the topic and 2) refusing to retract and apologize for an attack on me. The fact that she was given an opportunity to retract was a privilege she had gained by virtue of being a veteran commenter; a new commenter who made similar comments would be summarily banned with no appeal. I will not be treated with disrespect on my own site.
This is calumny. I do not hate Israel. And my views about Israel have far greater nuance than yours, which are mono-dimensional. I hold a whole range of reasons why Christian Zionism and Jewish Zionism are destructive and perverse. It is not based on hatred of Jews.
I did not attack you, fool, I told you what I think about an aspect of your personality. That is what is intolerable to you!
The issues of the day, in my opinion, override in their importance my original concern for your integrity as blog-owner. I was originally concerned that my ideas, too ideologically radical, and too critical of your Cuckservative fake Conservatism, would damage your standing in your community. Or also drive away the moderate geriatric Boomer crowd that comprise your sycophancy here.