Jason D. Greenblatt
In the age of the social-media dunk and viral clip, there’s no room for disagreement.
You may want to learn and debate by interacting with people who disagree with you. But the mobs that pile on when you threaten a sacred cow, especially one precious to the online left, have no interest in debate. They only want to destroy you.
I learned this firsthand when I made what should have been an uncontroversial point on social media — that those screaming “genocide” at Israel might want to direct their outrage toward Hamas, the terrorist organization primarily responsible for Gazans’ suffering. Hamas has maintained an iron grip on the Strip for nearly two decades through theft, violence and repression. They dehumanize their own population as a matter of strategy, using civi