But I don’t consider it to be illegal under US law, therefore everybody else should have to go along with that.
The thread does not belong in Great Debates.
If the SDMB in general wants to find anything out about being a settler, put the thread in IMHO. If people want to call her a crinimal, let them start a Pit thread.
Regards,
Shodan
How? All the OP is saying is basically, “I live in a yishuv on the West Bank. Do you have any questions about my life in the settlement?” The OP isn’t even making an argument. If you have such a problem with the OP living in a settlement on the West Bank that you can’t participate in the thread other than yelling at the OP and calling them a criminal, that’s your problem, not the OP’s, and you’re derailing the thread with a debate as to whether the settlements are right or wrong rather than the point of the thread, which is to find out how people in the settlements live.
Point of order: the thread was started in MPSIMS Wednesday afternoon and was moved to Great Debates Thursday morning. I haven’t had a chance to read it, so I can’t offer much comment yet on how it’s been moderated. But the placement of the read should not be attributed to the OP. He started it in the forum where “Ask the…” threads usually get started.
It started in MPSIMS and got moved to GD because MPSIMS did not allow for rebuttals or debates. Now we’re being told that GD doesn’t either. In my opinion, if the core issues can’t be challenged, them the thread needs to be closed. It’s too imflammatory otherwise. It’s like allowing an “ask the pedophile” thread and allowing no criticism of pedophilia.
OK. Then it should be moved back, and posters should be told that debate about the settlements is not allowed.
Problem solved.
Agreed. It was moved to Great Debates because the mods saw that debating would ensue:
This is disingenuous. The OP knows how inflammatory the subject is, and even recognizes it with a sarcastic thread title. The OP is admitting to an illegal act and inviting questions about it. It’s trolling, pure and simple.
The thread was in MPSIMS originally and got moved to GD when the heated questions began.
Personally I was really interested in the OP’s response to the question, but I wasn’t all that interested in seeing the GD denizens debate among themselves and take it down the usual rabbit hole. We have enough threads like that already with the same people making the same arguments.
No, that would be sanctioning a troll.
Then there’s no reason for an “ask the” thread to exist at all. I see no reason why the OP should be allowed to boast about something this incendiary without any challenge.
No, it wouldn’t. I don’t know how you come off calling her a troll.
She’s not boasting, and you’re engaging in internet psychoanalysis. Again.
The heated questions were expected by the OP, hence the title and the mention of controversy in the first post.
I don’t see how she can be called anything else. She’s being intentionally inflammatory. Isn’t that the definition.
I’ll stand corrected when and if she gets banned for being a troll
She’s not. If anybody’s being intentionally inflammatory, you are, with your first post in the OP asking “Does it bother you that you’re a criminal?”
It may or may not be the definition for it, but is this the forum to bring up that word?
This issue is getting treated with special attention IMHO. There has been plenty of debate in other “ask the” threads before; My own included. I fielded several questions from posters who had contrasting views to my own regarding the topic of the thread. We didn’t have any problem there. Even the infamous paedophile thread had some significant debate as I recall.
She know the subject is inflammatory because she said so. She is also a criminal. That is a fact. I just wanted to know how she felt about. She started a thread explicitly admitting to an action that is illegal (and WIDELY viewed around the world as immoral) and inviting people to ask questions about it. Denying that she knew the subject matter was inflammatory is disingenous.
I thought issues like that were exactly why this forum existed.