wat0n wrote:@skinster I'm not blaming you personally. But you can't deny that those who have been cancelled have not been compensated for their firing, unlike Salaita and Finkelstein. As such, they don't really have strong grounds to complain.
It's a weird analogy you're trying to draw here, since the people in the list of TV people who got fired that you shared, were fired for saying racist things. Do you think racists should be compensated for their racism? Either way, it's not up to me to decide, it's up to their employers.
On the other hand, Norman Finkelstein and Steve Salaita were fired from their jobs as professors and/or lost tenure, for their
political opinions that weren't racist, but opposed racist violence being committed by Israel. Salaita was compensated because it was discovered that there was some foul play (hiding emails), that it was politically-motivated and that it violated academic freedom, and because of all that, the university offered a settlement and still denied him his job. I'm not sure what the details are re: Norman Finkelstein but I do recall it happened because he embarrassed and exposed scumbag and paedo-defender, Alan Dershowitz,
on a Democracy Now! interview many years ago. Dershowitz used his power/connections to have Finkelstein fired, for his politics, not for any racism. I recall also Finkelstein's students protested his firing but it happened anyway. I don't know think he was compensated.
Anyway, if you're opposed to the so-called cancel culture, weird you support the cancelling of these professors for their crime of
*checks notes* defending Palestinian human rights.
Unthinking Majority wrote:LOL. Are you kidding me? Israelis and Palestinians are both filled with a ton of racists. Do you know how many racist Jew-hating Arabs and Palestinians there are?
This is incorrect. Zionism is a racist ideology which demands supremacy/privileges for its adherents from anywhere in the world, to the detriment of the millions of natives who have been living under their boot for 7+ decades. Palestinians have no power but did campaign for a movement (BDS) which demands for equality for all people living in Palestine/Israel. So no, they are not the same.
Anyone who takes a "side" in that conflict is a close-minded fool. They're both filled their share of a-holes who do terrible things to each other. The anti-racist position is to tell everyone to stop being so damn racist and grow-up and listen and empathize with each other's plight and treat each other with some respect like mature adults.
It seems like you only know the MSM version of events. I would support equality for all people in the land, and I do. Do you? Because one side doesn't. You can guess which side that is.
Free Palestine.