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What, are you claiming victory because I find you annoying? What sort of point is that?
I have made a criticism of your posting habits on the Motte that you have entirely refused to engage with. You could try to defend yourself in two ways. You could either claim that my description of your posting is inaccurate - that you aren't obsessed with Jews, or that you aren't unrelentingly hostile to them. Or you could claim that, granting that my description of your posts is true (if admittedly framed in a way critical of you), the behaviour that I describe is not bad. Maybe you think that everyone should be obsessed with Jews, and that your hostility to them is justified because they are actually that bad.
You've done neither. All you've done is claim that I'm "just offended" or that I'm "upset". That's not an argument. That's childish.
The closest you get to a response is the suggestion that your focus is "an appropriate level of discourse surrounding Jews", so, I take that to be the second way. Do you grant that it's correct that 1) you are extremely focused on Jews and post almost exclusively about them, and 2) your attitude toward Jews, both as individuals and as a community, is extraordinarily hostile? Is your defense that Jews are important enough as to merit this obsessive focus, and that they are bad enough to merit this extraordinary hostility?
Jews are one of the most important political and cultural forces in understanding Culture War in the United States and globe. But because of their political and cultural power, it's taboo to critically analyze their perspective, behavior, and identity. People like you and Aamadan constantly complaining about me talking about Jews is a side-effect of that.
My interest in Jews pertaining to the Culture War issues discussed is appropriate, and whether you want to call it obsessed is a question I do not care about. If it's an "obsession" it's appropriate. Notice now you don't say I'm wrong you just say I'm obsessed. Do you really think you're the first one to engage in this tactic of pathologizing criticism of Jewish identity and behavior? It's not going to work on me, I dismiss your concerns. If I say something you disagree with feel free to make an argument.
I also think I do post on a breadth of some of the most important Culture War nuances that are tangentially related to Jews but cover important concepts.
You might say, for example, when I wrote a short review of IT: Welcome to Derry, I couldn't help myself and I just had to take a jab at the Jews and the Holocaust because I'm obsessed. But I just wanted to watch a half-decent IT show, I didn't ask to be bombarded by Jews flexing cultural status and promulgating Holocaust lies. So is my criticism of this episode in the show me being obsessed with Jews, or is it Jews being obsessed with broadcasting their own cultural status, victim narratives, and lies in mass media? I just wanted to watch a TV show!
This is the reason why "you're so obsessed" is never going to work on me. I can't just sit and watch IT without Jewish lies being thrown directly in my face, and the sad part is I'm one of the very few people who knows it's a lie and the mass audiences are going to believe it and buy into it- because if they don't believe it they are a Holocaust denier, liable to be arrested in Europe, for daring to challenge the notion that Jews were turned into lampshades at Buchenwald. This is real CULTURE WAR by the way, this is how CULTURE WAR is waged, by weaving symbols and myths into popular culture in this exact fashion. But I didn't force them to put that in the show, if I'm OBSESSED for Noticing and criticizing it, then so be it because it must be done by someone.
In a purely descriptive sense, taking all value judgements out of it:
Is it true that your posting on the Motte focuses almost entirely on Jews?
Is it true that your attitude towards Jews (both as individuals and as a community) is extremely and consistently negative?
I note that in your post, you responded exclusively to the accusation of obsession, and not at all to the accusation of hostility. I think that's a dodge on your part, so I restate the question.
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I don't care about Jews per se, and lots of people on this site talk about Jews (negatively) and don't get modded for it.
You are the "Jew guy," the guy who posts nothing but rants about Jews, whose entire identity is hating Jews, whose entire personality is "I hate Jews." If I see a @SecureSignals post, I know that every. single. time. it will be about Jews and nothing but Jews. You start out talking about a TV show? Jews. You bring up a news article which initially has nothing to do with Jews or Israel? It will be about Jews.
That is why the "single-issue posting" rule gets applied to you (as it has been applied to a handful of other tiresome obsessives). Not because it's "taboo" to criticize Jews.
Every single time you reply to me I know it's you complaining about me talking about da Joos.
You called me out by name. I mostly ignore your posts except when they turn up in the mod queue.
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