Er. I notice myself again sort of setting the zero point in the above, with words like “libel”! Sorry.
To clarify: I felt genuinely threatened when a prominent, well-respected Jewish member of our community strawmanned my point into accusations of, quote, wanting to ghettoize people—that’s quite powerful and explosive speech.
That sense of threat grew no smaller when that commentary was rapidly upvoted into middling double-digit territory and nobody felt like saying “this is not at all what Duncan’s words mean?”
It was after over a week went by and no one seemed to think that this was urgent enough to need any publicly visible response at all that I “abruptly” pulled the essays.
Er. I notice myself again sort of setting the zero point in the above, with words like “libel”! Sorry.
To clarify: I felt genuinely threatened when a prominent, well-respected Jewish member of our community strawmanned my point into accusations of, quote, wanting to ghettoize people—that’s quite powerful and explosive speech.
That sense of threat grew no smaller when that commentary was rapidly upvoted into middling double-digit territory and nobody felt like saying “this is not at all what Duncan’s words mean?”
It was after over a week went by and no one seemed to think that this was urgent enough to need any publicly visible response at all that I “abruptly” pulled the essays.