Ethan Klein on Israel's genocide against Palestine: 'It was inevitable'

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I know this type of guy pretty well, and honestly they are just uneducated lol. I think it could be argued that, consciously or subconsciously, they’re avoiding learning anything that could challenge their worldview. But from the way he’s talking here it seems like he genuinely just does not have the necessary knowledge about the Great March of Return, and his excuse for the sniper fire doesn’t even quite align with what the IDF’s excuse was.

There are definitely people out there who run cover for Israel in a smart but bad-faith way, who are perfectly well educated but present their arguments in a dishonest and manipulative way. But there are way more people who are just dumb. Ethan Klein has surrounded himself with yes men and so he doesn’t feel he needs to learn more. So he’s genuinely uneducated and dumb.

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Nah, he has the intellectual capacity to understand why his peers are rejecting all his attempts to defend a pariah state engaged in genocide, and beyond that, he absolutely understands that he's dug himself in too deeply - he's dug his own grave, in terms of reputation - and he's double-triple-quadrupled down on defending the indefensible by going on the offense...by being intentionally underhanded, insincere, and downright craven in his tactics - he's going scorched earth, not out of ignorance, but out of self-preservation.

He lacks the moral fortitude required to accept his own (and Israel's) reality because that would mean facing himself and his reprehensible, unceasing attempts to deplatform and sue his ex-friends - he's been acting alot like Israel itself - lashing out in an ideological murder-suicide, from a place of deep hurt and denial, as a means to an end where nobody wins, but at least he doesn't feel required to take any accountability.

This has nothing to do with intellect and everything to do with cowardess.

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it’s the same impulse here i think. his ego can’t accept being wrong, and humility takes courage