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GetTheFacts • yesterday at 7:04 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

>If you could you please present the facts as you know them, as I suggested, because this in topic must be one of the cases I missed from the news - and you seem to have details that support your view anyway, so a generic narration will not suffice.

I understand your effort to engage in good faith, but iugtmkbdfil834[0] has made it clear that they are not.

They're operating out of what Sartre called out[1] as a primary mechanism of anti-semites, but is also applicable to folks like this:

   “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of 
   their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. 
   But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to 
   use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the 
   right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous 
   reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight 
   in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but 
   to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will 
   abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for 
   argument is past.”

   ― Jean-Paul Sartre 
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iugtmkbdfil834

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-...


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iugtmkbdfil834 • yesterday at 9:34 PM

It is interesting to watch you reduce things to primitives that have little to do with subject at hand. It is almost as if you yourself fit the helpfully provided quote above.