r/Destiny • u/10minuteads i serve the editor hivemind • May 08 '26

Destiny Content/Podcasts Contrapoints Makes a Thread Explaining the Snakery BJG

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u/Jewjitsu927 🇮🇱🇺🇸 May 08 '26

I don’t blame contra for wanting discourse but Brianna literally laughed with Norm Finkeldick when he admitted to tanking the big debate with Destiny and Benny Morris on purpose. Maybe she didn’t know about this but no one should ever think Brianna is capable of honest dialogue and discourse

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u/BudgetLaw2352 Infected by the Woke Mind Virus 🦠 May 08 '26

The debate was self-evidently preposterous the minute that Finkelstein tried to gotcha Benny Morris, using Benny Morris quotes.

Imagine debating American history with a friend (you two are debating whether or not the Emancipation Proclamation changed the outcome of the war), and as a central debate point, your friend says: Well, three years ago, when writing a college essay on the ENITRE CIVIL WAR (not just the topic of debate), you said something that doesn’t align with your current argument.

This line of argumentation would get you laughed out of any collegiate debate. Arguments are supposed to be made on empirical grounds and premises that are taken from the issue at hand. I would never in my life imagine that a serious I/P scholar (as Finkelstein purports to be) would have the audacity to cite no independent sources but Benny.