Why do the Haredi have so much political power?
My understanding is for two reasons. In the first place, this is because the founders of Israel choose to honor them as people practicing “real” Judaism and therefore worthy of respect and special rights and because they are a voting block that will vote in Israel’s parlimentary system the way they are told.
They tried the same fucking segregated bus shit in Brooklyn but were promptly told off by Bloomberg thankfully.
The standard answer I’ve heard is that this is a function of Israel’s proportional representation political system, which constantly creates coallition governments - meaning the ultra-religious parties can push through issues that appeal to them, by the threat of joining one coallition or another.
Here’s an article on the topic:
Well, they don’t leave me alone. Or at least their American cousins, the Hasidim of Brooklyn, don’t.
They are a royal fucking pain in the ass. Every Sunday they flood the park in my neighborhood. Which is fine. The city doesn’t have a lot of spaces for big families to get outside, and that’s what public parks are for.
But in the water park for little kids, they get all bent out of shape about children who aren’t Hasidim playing in the water with their kids, mostly, as far as I can tell, because the little girls aren’t wearing what they consider to be appropriate swimwear.
Now, they know they can’t enforce their ridiculous ideas of “modesty” on everyone in the park, so their strategy is to get there early, fill up the water park, and appoint a few large men to obstruct all the entrances.
There’s a bunch of other obnoxious stuff they do in the park (like taking up all the handicapped parking spaces), but that’s the one that really gets on my nerves.
Agreed.
- I support their right to do whatever the fact they want with their freedom of speech so long as they don’t break any apllicable law.
- However, it is shitty to edit Angela like that when a simple blurring would’ve sufficed.
- Having said that, the “panties” things meant that, shitty as it was, it ain’t such a big thing.
How is that a reminder? It would be a “reminder” if Haaretz photoshopped their front page to cater to the Haredim. It is not in any way a “reminder that they have too much power” if they use photoshop in their own newspaper photos.
So it is “big time shitty” but not such “a big thing.”
That’s crystal clear all right.
Just how big a deal is this newspaper?
“Big time shitty” = really not nice.
“not a big thing” = no transcendental
It is targeted at the ultra orthodox Jewish population in Israel. Which I see estimated as 8% of the population. I have no idea how many of that 8% read that particular newspaper.
"A Jewish newspaper has photoshopped Angela Merkel out of the Charlie Hebdo march"
A Christian organization promotes hatred of homosexuality.
Both of these statements are true, but could benefit from a smidge more specificity.
They did this all the time in the Soviet Union. Stalin was particularly known to pull [URL=“http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hick0088/classes/csci_2101/false.html”]this shit[/URL. Was it “free speech” then?
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Huh. I remember about calling people cunts, or telling people to fuck off, or themselves, or you, but I had forgotten about calling someone motherfucker.
I’ll avoid doing this in the future.
Self-censorship is not a free speech issue, unless perhaps the censoring outlet is a monopoly. Israelis can get their news elsewhere. This newspaper appears to be a private business.
Government censorship is very much a free speech issue.