• HexesofVexes
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    541 month ago

    Yup, most people of the Jewish faith are not the state of Israel. Much as most people of the Islamic faith are not terrorists. People mostly just want to lead comfortable lives.

    It’s a great case of A->B being misunderstood as A<->B to justify incredible shittiness.

    I do sometimes wonder if I should write a paper full of examples suggesting that this really simple misunderstanding of logic is what drives the enshittification of humanity _

    • Flying SquidM
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      211 month ago

      Last I checked, the number of Jews in New York state alone and the number of Jews in Israel was pretty close to equal.

      • HexesofVexes
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        141 month ago

        I think that’s the conflation - Jews in Israel and Jews in New York state fall into the set Jews. However the right wing supporters of Netenyahu’s government are but a subset of the former.

        A better comparison would be that the number of Jews in New York state was once close to the number of peaceful Palestinians and peaceful Israelis; meanwhile, the number of hardline genocidal Israelis was roughly equal to the number of Hamas terrorists. Those sets seem a better match, as they share more core categorical features.