In this weeks episode of Death Chat 500 we dive into the world of pro skater Tim Pool. We also watch Elissa Steamers new part as a palate cleanser before exploring the Zionist guide to defending genocide in the comment sections. Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for $5/month and get 2 bonus episodes a week Subscribe to our youtube channel at http://youtube.com/miniondeathcult
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| Okay, I'm not going to read that. | |
| Today I want to talk a little bit about how to defend the Jewish nation in your social media circles. | |
| This is important information that everybody needs to know. | |
| We've only got 15 minutes left, so I want to get through most of it here. | |
| All of us are inundated daily with a relentless barrage of slander against the Jewish nation. | |
| Some of it from friends, some of it from acquaintances or colleagues or powerful people within our social or professional networks. | |
| Or our children who won't talk to us anymore, or our wives who divorce us. | |
| Why do all these assholes hate me? | |
| What's happening? | |
| I ultimately understand the fear involved in speaking up, and I understand the sense of futility. | |
| I also understand the risks on every level. | |
| I understand exactly how hard it can be to stand and allow yourself to be counted. | |
| How many Like, Israel supporters have been fired from their jobs for supporting Israel in America? | |
| I don't think it's happened yet, unfortunately. | |
| I don't think it's happened either. | |
| Sure, there's been actual hate crimes that have been committed against Jewish people, or actual anti-Zionist taggings and stuff like that. | |
| But being afraid to speak up or whatever doesn't seem to cost anybody their job if you're pro-Israeli. | |
| It definitely costs pro-Palestinian folks their jobs. | |
| And yet I've been doing it regularly for over 10 years now. | |
| Wow, it's so brave of you, a podcaster, to talk. | |
| I've always thought about that, about how brave this is. | |
| And you haven't had repercussions besides comments. | |
| So what are you talking about? | |
| And while it's often very uncomfortable, a lot of good has come of it. | |
| I have shown up as my authentic self, which is, and I don't want anybody to harass this woman or whatever, many of whom I think of as real life friends. | |
| I've gotten messages from Jews all over the globe expressing appreciation for things I've written, and I've gotten messages from non-Jews telling me I changed their mind, just the evangelicals in our inbox, like DMing every Jew that comes across their feed. | |
| Wow, I am a strong ally of yours. | |
| You've shown me the way and just adding them to another email list. | |
| And she knows they're not Jewish because they really make sure that it's very clear in the message that they are not Jewish. | |
| In this post, I want to share the top six tips I've learned about how to be effective, how to stay sane, and how to represent our community in a way that doesn't inspire either more enmity or regret. | |
| I hope some of them will be helpful to you. | |
| Make rational choices about where and when to engage. | |
| Do not engage with trolls. | |
| Engage only with people of basic goodwill. | |
| Weigh the energy-to-benefit ratio of investing your time in an exchange. | |
| Good idea. | |
| Smart. | |
| Yesterday was an occasion where I decided to wade into the fray. | |
| An author I wildly respect and adore, a man with a following of more than 12,000 on Facebook, many of them thoughtful, literary types, posted a call for a ceasefire at any cost. | |
| At any cost? | |
| What does that mean? | |
| Yeah, what does that mean? | |
| What are you saying? | |
| Immediately his comment section filled with the usual content. | |
| Quote, thank you for standing against genocide, etc. | |
| The usual content of people accusing my state of being murderous. | |
| I'm so happy that these people do get this much shit, you know what I mean? | |
| It's the only retribution and satisfaction that we can hope to achieve in the short term, to be quite honest. | |
| This was a situation in which I felt it was worthwhile to represent our side. | |
| I left a comment of my own. | |
| Half a dozen people immediately and predictably piled on. | |
| The trolls have predictably piled on to my no-innocent-civilians-in-Gaza stance yet again. | |
| Also, you went there. | |
| I know that's stupid, but you went to that comment section. | |
| You wait, you... Yeah. | |
| You're the troll here, don't you understand? | |
| That's how that works. | |
| Well, she's gonna explain why she did it the right way. | |
| The tips that follow were what guided me as I sparred with Israel haters. | |
| Two, be fastidiously civil and calm. | |
| NEVER! | |
| Sink to their level of abuse, name-calling, or hysteria. | |
| Never resort to personal attacks. | |
| And the more vitriolic they get, the better, in a way. | |
| They will make themselves look worse and worse while you look better and better to anyone watching and listening. | |
| And there are always people watching and listening. | |
| Here is an actual exchange from yesterday. | |
| Troll. | |
| Fuck off and die. | |
| Me. | |
| So persuasive, I bow to your eloquence. | |
| Got him! | |
| Got his ass, fucked him up! | |
| Troll. | |
| You're a stupid piece of shit who is actually endangering the lives of millions of innocents. | |
| Oh wow, I'm sure resorting to ad hominem attacks will win you this war. | |
| Yep. | |
| Yep. | |
| Uh, no. | |
| The actual one is, uh, him. | |
| Okay, another troll in response to a paragraph-long set of facts I just presented. | |
| Him. | |
| Bullshit! | |
| Me. | |
| Oh, well that settles it. | |
| I guess I'll pack up and concede defeat. | |
| I love having, like, writing a whole blog post teaching someone how to be fucking annoying. |