Inheritance Taxing
By Mitch Berg
There are few statements I personally find less convincing than “my ancestors suffered, so I have absolute authority on a completely different question“
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May 25th, 2021 at 10:54 am
Why waste your time? Except for the smartaleck lede link which is both true and amusing, I don’t understand the point in reading that article, much less blogging about it.
The reactions of those supporting Hamas and al Fatah are exactly the same as they have been for the last 50 years. Only the details are different, but they’re all the same lies. Israelis => Nazis, Palestinians => Jews, Gaza => concentration camp, “this go-round” => the Holocaust… Hmm, odd no one ever uses the Holodormor or Killing Fields or Katyn when coming up with analogies for how the evil Israelis treat their angelic neighbors.
May 25th, 2021 at 11:03 am
Of all the bs things lefties say (reproductive rights, etc.) this one just takes the cake. Are you effing kidding me? I am a “second generation holocaust survivor”? That means you are not a holocaust survivor you dim wit.
I’m almost tempted to read the comments, if there are any.
May 25th, 2021 at 12:06 pm
This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his
mother’s side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have
little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to
happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
— Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein’s “Time Enough For Love”
Until they demand I pay reparations for the indignities their ancestors suffered. Then, they can go to . . . .
May 25th, 2021 at 12:35 pm
I have ancestor who was a Hugenot fisherman in 1660s Catholic France. I’m still waiting on reparations from the Catholic Church.
This is just a repackaging of an appeal to authority, mixed with an appeal to emotion. Shame we seem to have generations of people on the Internet unable to avoid succumbing to using logical fallacies.
May 25th, 2021 at 3:27 pm
It seems that she’s long on accusations and short on evidence, and that might give us a hint about why she’s using genetic fallacies to back up her thesis.
May 25th, 2021 at 3:50 pm
Anyone thinking Hamas is a responsible actor is full of shit.
May 25th, 2021 at 4:32 pm
I’m guessing what with the distance between the ‘r’ and ‘t’ keys on a QWERTY keyboard, bike, that you meant generic?
That said, it’s not the “long on accusations and short on evidence” that concerns me as much as the making shit up out of whole cloth that is intended to tug at the heart-strings of the less discerning reader. Things like the Israelis bombed a children’s birthday party or shot up a baby carriage. Like the Muhammad al-Durrah incident. I believe nothing from Hamas/al Fatah and their propagandists in the (international) media.
May 26th, 2021 at 10:36 am
JDM, nope, I meant “genetic” fallacies, fallacies of logic by which the origin of an idea is seen as proof that it is true or false.
Makin’ s**t up is also appalling. Again, when you don’t have real evidence for your position, that’s the default approach.