re: #467 oaktree

The down-ding was for the “I get hassled for not toeing the orthodoxy of the site” line.

Hold your own on the basis of facts and logic. (That the politics in the Middle East are highly illogical at times is a major obstacle.) Dropping back to a statement that’s essentially a whine doesn’t help your position, and I doubt it will draw much sympathy either.

It happens to be a true statement. I had quite the back and forth with aceofwhat yesterday regarding Roberts and the Supreme Court. We clearly disagreed with each other, but we weren’t compulsively down-dinging each other simply because of a legitimate disagreement.

Whenever Israel is brought up, any expression that differs substantively from “the burden of peace rests solely on the Arabs” is compulsively down-dinged. That is what I am referring to.