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Jenn's avatar

Josh-you cite “Isabella Moody” on X for the poll where Americans believe Judaism to be more dangerous than Islam. I cannot find this source. Can you please post the source? It’s a pretty inflammatory statistic so it would be good to have access to the poll.

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Joshua Hoffman's avatar

That’s right, she did a Twitter poll with over 80,000 responses.

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Susan Sullivan's avatar

Well said!

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Andrew Lowy's avatar

A well-argued essay, Josh. Yasher koach!

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Rachel T Greenwald's avatar

As the comedian Modi Rosenfeld joked, why do we send antisemites to Holocaust museums when we want to convince them of the errors of their ways? Isn’t that exactly what antisemites want to see?

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Birgit's avatar

Excellent, albeit gloomy. Do you think the ideas of Enlightenment *can* go further? Or will humans always be more driven by emotion rather than fact?

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Joshua Hoffman's avatar

Maybe AI will make us more driven by fact, although today there are many versions of fact and whoever controls the AI will therefore determine them.

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Earon Davis's avatar

Excellent critique of today's far left populism and its propensity towards barbaric, destructive hatred of whomever they label as successful.

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Joshua Hoffman's avatar

The far right is not excluded from populism either!

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