Context, context and Nazis

Discussion in 'SF Open Government' started by Doreen, Aug 14, 2009.

  1. Doreen Valued Senior Member

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    With the following post Skinwalker closed down the thread
    The Good of Nazi Germany.

    [My bold]
    I realized the bolded portion had bothered me, though I agreed with every sentence in Skinwalker's post
    if
    I didn't take into account context.

    In the context of a thread saying that Nazi Germany had good qualities, criticism of Jewish organizations means something very different than the same criticism in a thread on Zionism or Israeli or the plight of the Palestinians.

    In such a thread, I do not think one is obligated to take criticism in a tree by tree rather than forest level way.

    Someone may naively hop in and not think of the context, but in the context of a thread defending Nazi Germany even justified criticism of Jewish Organizations becomes justification for, well, you know.

    This same contextual awareness should also be included when threads on a wide variety of topics basically imply that US foreign policy, for example, is justified because of this or that assertion in the Koran.
     
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  3. davesalasa Registered Member

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    I like Jews, personally

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