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If disapproving of Netanyahu’s government is anti-semitic, that means that over 50% of Israel’s population is anti-semitic
Which is unlikely
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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
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People often resort to name calling as argumentum. I've been called a sexist because of my view on women in combat roles in the military. Two things guide my view. Anyone reading this can tell me why it's sexist if they think so.
1. For a time I lived on a fire support base south of the Que Son Mountain range. A miserable place where we were frequently hit with mortars. That is not the reason. When I got there as advanced party there were no showers. We went to a stream just outside the fire base to bathe. When the higher ups figured out that some of the women there were not there to wash cloths, they decided that we needed a shower. In an open area in the compound, they put some wooden pallets and set up a pipe contraption with holes in it and pumped water from the stream for an hour every day. It was quickly a big mud puddle. We stripped, walked thru the mud, showered walked back thru the mud, dried ourselves and wiped the mud off our feet. The condition of my feet is another story. Women with rotten feet is not the reason either. Where in the hell was there going to be a woman's space?
2. I'm just one person, hardly a valid statistic, but every single woman who has talked about it with me who was in the military told me that they were raped at least once! The people you are supposed to have the tightest bond with raping you! Go back to number 1 and imagine being a young, fit, woman putting your naked body on display regularly in front of a bunch of young, horney jarheads. Splendid idea?
Women deploy now. I don't know how they deal with that, but we were certainly not ready to deal with it back then. I'm sure that the women on the medical staff at China Beach had women's spaces. I never had occasion to talk with them to see if it would change my every one of them metric. Maybe not, I don't know.
Yes, more extreme than in more civilized locations. That's my point, but I still get called a sexist. Men should behave themselves. Yeah right, sure they will.
Women got killed too, but that is not the subject here, but I'll mention it because it matters to me. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/fact-check-why-are-so-few-womens-names-on-the-vietnam-memorial-wall