Are these somewhat extreme views?

"I love the poorly educated" says Donald Trump and why wouldn't he? Where would he be without them? But a cult is a cult and if you're ripe for indoctrination you'll fall for it regardless.

70% of Brexiteers didn’t have any higher education, never mind a degree from Oxford. Higher education isn’t everything, but when people with low levels of education vote very differently to those with degrees and above, it does indicate differences in the way they think. Incidentally, Reform also did better amongst the lower educated in the recent election.

Given the 3 major religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) all hold very similar beliefs, all have the same people present in their texts, all hold the same core values. It really concerns me that the Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chief Rabbi and Senior Imam don't join forces and tell their arsehole factions to stop behaving like twats because they're ruining it for everyone.

I recognise Islam is going through a state of being we saw in Christianity in the 16th century (Protestants Vs Catholics and Shia Vs Sunni) but all this is now reading like a cultural war not a religious one. It's not Islam Vs Judaism, it's the middle east Vs Israel, look into the background of Hamas, why and how it formed, why Egypt won't allow it's members back into it's country. A lot of racial tensions in the world are cultural clashes.

Tat depends. In the UK, sure.

In Australia or Canada? Racist to say it to a recent immigrant, but if you are First Nations you can tell the "settlers" to go back. (Not that it's possible for them to do so.)

She does not sound "lovely"... these views are sickening.

Two state solution. The plan was never to get rid of anyone not Jewish, despite what certain posters would like you to believe. I mean, the population of Israel today is something like 30% non-Jewish. I just wish so many people would stop trying to delegitimise Jewish connections to the land in question.

I don't have any answers for your other questions though. Not sure anyone does.

I really don’t feel intellectuals are the problem. Especially given the strongly anti-intellectual streak in British society.

That was a good watch, thank you. I read a review on this book recently https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lies-My-Liberal-Teacher-Told-ebook/dp/B0BDZMZJ4C it's on my reading list.

Orwell nailed it with “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

Also been faced with an Oxford graduate who didn’t believe in biological sex. I’m avoiding talking to them about anything else incase I get the rages.

But yeah it’s a distorted lens of reality. Can’t believe that they think Japan/Taiwan should basically be forced under a sphere of influence that they don’t want. She does realise that the islamists turned on the communists in Iran after the revolution (going to go ahead and assume she thinks she’s a communist) and as pp mentioned murdered them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Peima-Uw7w

This is a good watch, it attempts to explain why smart people believe stupid things.

Before I went to an Oxbridge college I imagined it was full of brilliant eccentrics. I got there and realised it was full of people who were completely conformist. Studying incessantly for most of your young adult life does not lead to free or radical thinking.

I'll never forget a friend telling me I was in a cult because I don't believe people can change sex or are born in the wrong body. Erm...

Zionism is Jewish people wanting the right for self-determination in their homeland, the place the religion comes from. The only place our holy sites exist.

Genuine question to you as you have no doubt thought about it - holy wars have been fought over that area for centuries because the Jewish, Muslim and Christian religions see the area as a very important holy site, and peoples of all such religions have ties there. It is also true that the British handled the situation very badly during the 1st ww and afterwards, and the bitter disputes and hatred could have been avoided. We are where we are now, and on the basis that neither the Muslim people nor the Jewish people should be driven out, and both want either self determination or (some groups want) democratic shared determination, what should the future hold? How should the land be split? What should happen in Gaza? How do we stop the hate?

Seems like TikTok is having precisely the effect the Chinese owners hoped. How fucking depressing. And terrifying. Views like this are why my daughter's Jewish preschool has police and security guards patrolling outside.

These are exactly the sorts of views that led to me falling out with one of my closest friends. She also became pro-Putin and said Ukraine should just give him what he wants. She refused to agree to disagree. I have no idea where it all came from.

Internet disinformation and the battle lines it has drawn between generations and communities is the great scourge of our age.

Ain't that the truth?!

Scary really.

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Zionism is an extreme point of view. It is Zionism, for example, that is driving the illegal settlers in the West Bank who are occupying Palestinian land, attacking Palestinian people and driving them off their farms

There is a very unpleasant trend at the moment by some to change the definition of Zionism so that it includes support of illegal settlers...this then means they can demonise Zionism entirely. It's pretty transparent.

Zionism is not an extreme view at all

I agree, it is absolutely revolting. I'm hoping that in the six years since this happened that the family have received at least some form of justice and that the disgusting extremists were dealt with by the police.

The problem is that the poster is trying to imply that it's an every day, mainstream occurrence somehow representative of Judaism and/or Zionism. Which it isn't.

Zionism is a movement with the goal of the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Israel. I'm a Zionist and want a two state solution. Stop pretending the two things are mutually exclusive.

Why would Labour want to teach critical teaching -alot of their favored ideologies wouldn't withstand being considered critically (eg the trans ideology).

Very extreme views yes.

But the bit about Japan is a fairly huge error on your part (unless she actually said Japan in which case it’s a huge error on her part, but I’m less surprised)

Zionism is a political nationalist movement with the goal of the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine. I will take the point that it is not an extremist movement in itself, but it has sparked extremism, from Lehi, for example, who attempted to negotiate with Hitler for his support to oppose the British in Palestine, though this was before the Holocaust, but at a time when Jewish people were being persecuted in Nazi Germany; to the West Bank settlers.

This is the way some of the settlers behave: Jewish extremists taunt 'Ali's on the grill' at slain toddler's relatives | The Times of Israel

The problem is, Israel does not recognise the rights of the displaced Palestinians, and the more these rights are not recognised, the more unrest it causes.