Stanford students are criticizing Google for enabling Israel. If Google was providing support for Hamas they could protest that too.
In fact, at University of Washington, a protest was organized to support Palestine after the Oct 7 massacre on Oct 8; they chose to show support Palestine after Palestine did a massacre. And there was a very little criticism on that kind of actions.
you should think long and hard why that is but answer is as always quite simple
> If you didn't want to discuss that, then you shouldn't have brought it up.
I want to discuss it but you misunderstand the topic and seem angry based on your own misunderstanding.
If you weren't, we would just discuss normally without insulting that the other side didn't have intention to discuss in a discussion forum.
So, somehow my comment angered you that you had to resort to the tactics of undermining the other side.
Who said it wasn't about Palestine? Who even thinks that? We are talking about the protest regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict, right?
So, you think Palestine is irrelevant to the discussion of ... rolling the dice ... the Israel-Palestine conflict
It is not an insult to observe another's behavior and commment on it. What you've pulled out from their comment and called an insult reads as an admonishment. It is no worse than saying "you misunderstand the topic and seem angry based on your own misunderstanding". Bear in mind, I am not saying that is an insult, either, but another admonishment. Rather, you appear to be using this accusation as a tactic to discredit people who are not agreeing with you with you.
> Who said it wasn't about Palestine? Who even thinks that?
These questions are how a reader can be sure you are not discussing in good faith. I was referring to this commment, which was posted by you: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535128>. The child comment of that one which you took as an insult appears to be expressing the commenter's exasperation at your discussion style, seeing it seems to be conducted in bad faith.
> So, you think Palestine is irrelevant to the discussion of ... rolling the dice ... the Israel-Palestine conflict
I don't believe I wrote anything to that effect but you're welcome to correct the record, I suppose.
Separately, I'm noticing you told on yourself in the comment I initially replied to, the behavior observable in your comments in this thread: "So, somehow my comment angered you that you had to resort to the tactics of undermining the other side." As you accuse, you've been trying to undermine the arguments made by others rather than addressing the substantive points they raise.
sure it was reprehensible, but is it on the same scale even? both before and after?
criticising hamas seems like premature optimization, and picking something basically irrelevant to the overall conflict
Exactly, and organizing a support for Palestine immediately after Palestine committed a massacre is NOT okay.
> criticising hamas seems like premature optimization
Are you saying we shouldn't criticize Palestine?
> picking something basically irrelevant to the overall conflict
Why do I have to pick? Why do you need to pick?
We can criticize both. Both are evil in different aspects.
Why do you have so much issue with criticizing the evilness of Palestine?