[-] sixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago

So, your second paragraph is interesting because I/my family have lived that experience; as an autistic person and as someone whose grandfather fled their country as a refugee due to a communist uprising

Autistic people were actually the very first group of people to be holocausted by the nazis, several years before Jewish people

Does that give me more right or credibility to share these ideas? should it?

I don’t think it’s made a difference in this case either, if we’re comparing it to other individuals who have made this point and the effects on foreign policy

[-] sixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 11 months ago

Genuine Q: isn’t saying this should have come from a Jewish person a form of tribalism itself?

I’m of the opinion that critical thinking (like this piece) can be achieved by any person from any background, and we all should be engaging with the ideas that come up (and their merit, or lack thereof) rather than anything else if we’re interested in moving forward in a way that is equitable for all

IMO It seems a dangerous thing to be gatekeeping ideas from certain groups of people

[-] sixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yea but notably property taxes pay for schools in the USA, council tax pays for roads, lights, bins etc

In the UK you don’t get to go to a better school just because your house costs more money

[-] sixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Council tax doesn’t pay for any of the things that property taxes do. The USA also has separate taxes for bin collection etc

[-] sixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I believe we already do this

[-] sixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Okay but at that point shoot the tyres??

[-] sixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I think you just contradicted yourself in that same sentence

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