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  • There were also many Israeli children who were murdered, maimed, or kidnapped by Hamas and she went 2 years without mentioning it. This is also in a climate in which people are invalidating the suffering of those children. I don’t think it’s wrong for someone to make a principled political stand, but it is intellectually dishonest to say “I just care for ALL children” and then ignore a large group of them.

    Again, I am not saying that I think she is in the wrong, which I have already made explicit. The people whose suffering children she ignored are also not wrong to be confused about her position.

    She has commented primarily about Palestinian children because there are more of them suffering. Enough said.








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    Here is the original study. He shows that on certain issues of governance, the far right and far left are more similar than the center.

    He also cherrypicks 7 data points out of hundreds (from 2008-2014) to support his conclusion. He provides no criteria for inclusion of these particular data points.

    The authors of this article (found here) also equate Joe Biden with centrism, providing no evidence. Would he really rate his views as a “5” or “6” on a scale from 1-10, as these authors suggest? I doubt it, but like the authors of this article, I simply do not know.

    Using another metric of his positions suggests that he would be around a 2, making it irrelevant to this study, which focuses on only 5-6.

    I’ll stop here because this comment is already better researched that the article in the meme.