Reply To: Question for FuturePotus ❓

Thank you Winnie for taking the time to comment. I appreciate your thinking about and analyzing what I wrote.

1. “Perhaps it is better to call attention to problematic posts to the mods rather than confront a poster who may not react in the proper way?”
True. That is why I had tried that first. (remember that you don’t see every post that is written).

2. I don’t think that I ever said that the blue shirts story was NOT loshon hora. I simply said that that was not the part that I was saying is l”h and the reason it should be deleted. I didn’t want to deal with that part of the story because the other was the more obvious problem, and I didn’t want to give a definitive statement regarding that part of the story. There are only so many things one can deal with at a time, and I chose to deal with the part that: a) I thought was worse & b) was more clearly l”h.

please note: I am still not giving a definitive conclusion regarding whether or not that part of the story would be problematic in and of itself IF THE REST HAD NOT BEEN WRITTEN AS WELL (the denigrations of klal Yisrael and a specific unconnected institution).

3. Regarding the issue of being mekabel l”h, my point was that since the story was being used as a means of denigrating klal yisrael and a specific institution, it became part of the l”h and therefore it seems to me that one would not be allowed to believe it. Since the purpose of the story was to make klal yisrael and a specific institution look bad, it is now loshon hora (the way it is being told) and therefore it should be assur to believe it.