i expected this to be something incendiary to be flagged. instead i think it is well said. from the concluding paragraphs: But can one truly be so ignorant

i expected this to be something incendiary to be flagged. instead i think it is well said. from the concluding paragraphs: But can one truly be so ignorant as to advocate widespread violence in the name of peace? When the world is rendered in black-and-white—portrayed as a simple fight between colonizer and colonized—the answer is yes. Solutions, by this logic, are absolute: Israel or Palestine, nothing in between. Either you support liberation of the oppressed or you support genocide. Either Stanford is all good or all bad; all in favor of free speech or all authoritarian; all anti-Semitic or all Islamophobic. it's not unusual (understatement) to see this HN crowd fall into the black-and-white-with-nothing-in-between trap and it's a trap that particularly afflicts the smartest of people. we should work hard to recognize and avoid it.