Reply To: Turns out we’re all terrorists

Sadigurarebbe, while it’s true that this particular Haaetz hit peice was only directed at the DL community, I have little doubt that they have nothing nice to say about the Chareidim either.

Joseph:
Why would you expect more from an anti-semitic rag like Haaretz?

Truth is, I don’t. But I did expect better from the CR. And yet in a recent thread, several people here seemed to have no problem hurling these kind of ridiculous and reprensible insults at other frum Jews that they happen to dislike.

As many here may have figured, that was the real point of this thread – to show how utterly absurd and awful it is to use this kind of langauge to smear people you don’t like. I was hoping that seeing the same type of comments in a different scenario might drive the point home. (People have a tendencey to only notice how offensive and objectionable insults are when they’re directed at somebody that they feel some kind of kinship with…)