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In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’m getting as much out of your brief, initial comments as your considered, more-in-depth comment! (Apologies for the delay and for muffing the first shot at responding to your first brief comment.) I had been ignoring …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. HERE IS MY BETTER RESPONSE TO IRFAN’S QUICK THOUGHT… Let’s shift the focus to just and unjust treatment so as to avoid the mismatch between being wronged (not being wronged) and being treated unjustly (justl…

[…] tomorrow, when I get a chance. So, in a backhanded way, I may once again be forced into another concession about the existence of “cancel culture.” I guess it exists, after […] LikeLike

[…] When the Taliban forcibly prevents Malala Yousafzai from getting an education, pious Americans fall over themselves to grandstand and virtue signal their support for girls’ right to education under an Islamic state. As someone whose female co…

[…] female cousins in Pakistan faced virtually the same threats from the Taliban as Malala did, I’m the last to disagree. I have family in (or recently out of) Pakistan who’ve put their lives on the line, as […] LikeLike

So how was your child’s first day of school? It’s always so traumatic, sending the little tykes off on their own, isn’t it? At least it didn’t involve tear gas and an altercation with the military. Well, here, by contrast, is the first day of school for the Palestinian children of the (Palestinian) village of…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The sort of moral anger I’m talking about is an appropriate response to the state of affairs of A being wronged by B (or even many unnamed people being wronged by many unnamed other people). And this goes into constitut…