Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a heroic Jewish bystander saved Jewish lives during the Bondi Beach massacre by tackling one of the gunmen. In fact, the man who made the heroic intervention is a Muslim of Levantine descent who was shot twice in the process.
Ahmed El Ahmed, from Idlib in Syria according to a relative, went up unarmed against one of the attackers, wrested his gun away and turned it on the terrorist, forcing him to flee, as footage shown by Al Jazeera demonstrates…
I’m not saying they are wrong. Probably they are right, but way not iron out the edges.
But if insults stay coming, then maybe there is something more to it. It’s like a litmus test.
Even the harshest replies here have been towards your viewpoint and opinion, not you. If you’re taking discussion and debate as an insult, that is certainly a litmus test.
I’m not at all, but Lemmy often isn’t very friendly.
Welcome to the internet? Not even the internet, as such heated discussions have been around since the days of Usenet and BBSes, where the anonymity of posting thoughts and rebuttals allowed people to be less guarded in what and how they said things to each other. But so what? If your points are grounded in evidence and logic, why do you care if people get angry in their response?
I’m not complaining.