mtutiger

Unless you're a certain Tiger podcaster / ex-board regular anyway

Boy, I called that one in one of these threads haha

I think the idea of a new Rabin is great, but it's also an example of this being a two-way street. Israel's current government is an impediment to a solution, very few (if any) would argue that at this point. But that does not negate the idea that current Palestinian leadership (ie. Hamas) is, to put it mildly, not interested in that outcome either. If anything, their entire worldview is opposed to that outcome. So how exactly is that accomplished? Is a ceasefire supposed to accomplish that? It's easy to talk in platitudes, it's a lot harder to deal with reality as it exists.

I have never gotten the impression that ERod has ever been an issue in the Tigers clubhouse... to the extent that belief is there, it's been the fanbase projecting its grievances (justified or otherwise) onto the clubhouse IMO

"Whaddabout Benjamin Netanyahu?" is a pretty terrible defense of the use of the term.

Yikes

Reading between the lines, if ERod has stated he intends to opt out, there isn't a real reason not to begin negotiations on a restructure before the deadline.

Is this a "days vs. business days" situation?

Erod being open to a restructure and coming back would make the trade deadline fiasco make more sense in retrospect... although I'll believe it when I see it.

Looks like Door #3 (restructure / new contract) is possibly on the menu

I actually agree with you here and gave her the benefit of the doubt at the time (and still do). And, correct me if I'm wrong, she at least clarified her statement so, as far as I'm concerned, the matter is closed. My only point is that it caused controversy because it is a real trope that has been used repeatedly throughout history to marginalize Jews - it's literally as established as fried chicken and watermelon is with AAs. And yeah, if Marjorie Taylor Greene trotted that trope out, I question whether the same standard would be applied on either side of the political spectrum. I am not, and have not to date, accused Ilhan Omar of anything. So not sure what you're getting at here. Great.

Have all ethnicities been targeted for pursuing money the way Jews have been in the past? And, in some dark corners of society, still are? That history is what makes it a trope.... and yeah, when a politician, advertently or not, ends up using a trope, it's not exactly a huge surprise when it causes controversy.

I mean, the whole "Jews being good with money" thing is about the oldest antisemitic trope in the book, isn't it?

Do you think right wing antisemitism is apparent when you see it come across in coded language?

I mean, it kinda depends on what "apparent" is to a degree right? "George Soros" is used as a trope in a lot of right wing antisemitism IMV.... that's pretty apparent to me, but it's coded as well in a way that gives plausible deniability.

I'd have to go back and review the entire thread, but I don't recall anyone drawing an equivalency between the degree of antisemitism being exhibited by the left versus right in society writ large.

Gotta lay some of the responsibility on the beat writers. Between Chris McCoskey and Evan Woodbery, they seem way more interested in covering people that are no longer on the Tigers than the actual team.

I don't believe you. We'll leave it that.

Wonder what prompted this letter....

I think you know what I mean.

I guess the exception I take is that I could envision a scenario where the perpetrators of said crimes look different than the ones we have seen on campus and there would be a lot less hemming and hawing about the reasons and more focus on the overt act of antisemitism. I'm sure I'll be told I'm wrong, but that's what I'm seeing in the broader discussion

No problem.

Just as Islamophobia should be called out in all it's forms without equivocation, so should antisemitism. The distinctions don't matter, and to me at least, they come across like equivocations. If that was not your intent, I stand corrected and apologize.

I never said they were OK. And I think you know that

True to form lol