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Avram: So you’ve now jumped from making up “repeatedly bring this halacha up on the CR in numerous threads” to finding a single thread from two years ago out of ten years of posting, and when confronted with your untruth you concede “Whatever” and suddenly jump to speculating that “you’ve probably had to lay off the topic for a while” to not be blocked. Yeah, okay. Anything about JFK you want to add?
Your Agagi example is incomparable since he specifically and overtly used it to attack Yidden. Which is clear as he was a goy and not citing the Halacha in a halachic discussion. No such context exists here. You still have failed to, despite being asked to, identify which Halachas should be toned down from being publicly discussed “even though the halachos are correct”, and what criteria you’ve come up with. Toeiva, shechita, avoda zora, gender roles? Any Halacha the goyim think is regressive, undemocratic, cruel, unfair, non-egalitarian, weird, funny, retro?
Regarding a Kohein making the Kohein/Yisroel point in Halacha, there is absolutely nothing wrong (and everything right) with him doing so. Now if he cited that Halacha every Monday and Thursday, something completely irrelevant to here where you offered 1 previous example from the last 10 years — which itself was 2 years ago, it would be unusual and interesting but no one would get bent out of shape because he repeated it so. Even if he kept saying it to Yisroelim. OTOH, you here declared a Halacha as “highly inappropriate” a “misuse” and a “C”H” to mention. Even if it would be weird for a Kohein to often repeat it, which again is inapplicable here, you wouldn’t tell the Kohein it is a misuse and a C”H. Because it isn’t any of that. The only reason you thought all that applied here is because that’s what the goyim and secularist think (in their own terminology.) And you picked up their values. The goyim are not only okay with but actually believe it is better to save women first (i.e. Titanic.) If someone would present a halachic argument here, even a convoluted one, making that same argument in support of the reverse of what I showed from Halacha, I’m quite sure you wouldn’t be jumping all up and down about how terrible it is to say that. But regarding this cited Halacha you’re embarrassed how the goyim perceive it. That’s the only motivation to be upset to hear the Halacha in public.
If the goyim in the near future widely start deeming shechita as cruelty to animals or bris milah as child abuse, something certainly within the realm of possibility in the future as even now such thoughts are gaining credence, I can see those with your thought process insisting we not too loudly or too much or publicly discuss shechita or mila. Even now right here in the CR (among other places) we have those who try to hush hush any halachic discussion of toeiva and even halachic gender issues since they’re embarrassed what the Torah says about them. But they’re too embarrassed to admit they’re embarrassed about what the Torah and Halacha says, so they come up with other rationalizations as why such halachic topics should be avoided.