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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Let’s go over the poll and how bias the questions are.

    ISR4: Do you think it’s true that Hamas terrorists killed 1200 Israeli civilians by shooting them, raping and beheading people including whole families, kids and babies or is that a false story?

    This of course ignores the large number of military personnel killed by calling them civilians while also repeating the blood libel claim about babies.

    ISR5: Do you think Hamas fighters are more appropriately called militants or terrorists?

    Both of these words have a negative connotation in English normally you would use a neutral or positive word to gauge sentiment also the question above already calls them terrorists.

    ISR7: Do you think Hamas is designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. government or is that not the case?

    This is literally just a knowledge question but in the slides is presented as opinion. Bringing up the official designation just seems like an intentional attempt to bias any subsequent answers.

    ISR15: Do you think the recent attack on Israel shows there is widespread antisemitism and hatred of Jews among Palestinians or does the attack reflect the actions of only terrorists and fundamentalists and not the will of Palestinian people?

    These are the only two possibilities it couldn’t have anything to do with fighting occupiers.














  • I don’t think utilitarianism is a useful tool for analyzing structural problems. Which is what I was trying to condense into a funny quip. If you look at Peter Singer, the most prominent modern day utilitarian, you still see that he has terrible takes on pretty much anything geopolitical and isn’t an anti-capitalist. I actually don’t have a problem with consequentialism generally, but the materialist analysis is just more effective. I have limited philosophical knowledge so I probably can’t answer your actual question.