Mod 80 – “harmless things: sports, tv, movies, magazines, novels, blue jeans, baseball caps, sneakers” hat to break it to you but tv, magazines, goyish novels, (many times “harmlessly include love incidents) ARE HARMFUL.
most certainly sof. i was trying to state their perspective hoping the foolishness of it would be obvious. no sane person would open the sewer main to empty into his living room, much less his head.
not to mention that we are a Holy Nation, set apart from the nations, we thank Hashem in Havdalah and many other occasions for separating us from the nations. and as was prophesied, whenever we begin to go lost to within the nations, Hashem increases their hatred of us to form a barrier, if we wont make our own barrier. many see the Holocaust as a result of the large masses of Jews embracing reform and assimilation, and making berlin the “new Jerusalem”.